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- Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research
- We are running out of time to reach deal to save natural world, says UN talks chair
- Ukraine’s football kit with map featuring Crimea causes outrage in Russia
- Pakistan train crash: dozens killed as express services collide
- Tory rebels await Speaker’s decision on bid to restore aid pledge
- Infected blood scandal: government knew of contaminated plasma ‘long before it admitted it’
- Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain
- China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in ‘judgment day’ for bitcoin
- Boko Haram leader killed on direct orders of Islamic State
- ‘Hero of Auschwitz’ David Dushman, last surviving liberator of death camp, dies aged 98
- Coronavirus live news: Spain reopens to vaccinated tourists as Taiwan extends pandemic restrictions
- Spat at, abused, attacked: healthcare staff face rising violence during Covid
- Police in Malaysia use drones to detect high temperatures amid Covid surge
- Children are ‘vulnerable host’ for Covid as cases recede, US expert warns
- Bob Odenkirk: ‘Soon people won’t remember Breaking Bad’
- David Olusoga on race and reality: ‘My job is to be a historian. It’s not to make people feel good’
- TV Baftas 2021: backstage with Michaela Coel, Paul Mescal and more – in pictures
- ‘Alice the rat was so special’: readers on their brilliant, beloved pet tattoos
- ‘The darkest days are coming’: Myanmar’s journalists suffer at hands of junta
- The pig whisperer: the Dutch farmer who wants to end factory farming
- Economic toll of climate crisis ‘will be like two pandemics a year’ | First Thing
- ‘They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor’: health workers under attack
- Daughter of Biloela asylum seekers evacuated from Christmas Island for urgent medical care
- The Nobel committee should resign over the atrocities in Tigray
- Public opinion supports action on inequality. Jacinda Ardern has no more excuses | Max Rashbrooke and Peter Skilling
- Puffin island: a voyage to one of Scotland’s remotest habitats
- How a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company – video
| Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research Posted: 06 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT G7 countries will lose $5tn a year by 2050 if temperatures rise by 2.6C The economies of rich countries will shrink by twice as much as they did in the Covid-19 crisis if they fail to tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to research. The G7 countries – the world's biggest industrialised economies – will lose 8.5% of GDP a year, or nearly $5tn wiped off their economies, within 30 years if temperatures rise by 2.6C, as they are likely to on the basis of government pledges and policies around the world, according to research from Oxfam and the Swiss Re Institute. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| We are running out of time to reach deal to save natural world, says UN talks chair Posted: 07 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT Warning comes amid fears of further delays to Kunming summit, which aims to agree on curbing destruction of ecosystems The world is running out of time to reach an ambitious deal to stem the destruction of the natural world, the co-chair of negotiations for a crucial UN wildlife summit has warned, amid fears of a third delay to the talks. Negotiators are scheduled to meet in Kunming, China, in October for Cop15, the biggest biodiversity summit in a decade, to reach a hoped-for Paris-style agreement on preventing wildlife extinctions and the human-driven destruction of the planet's ecosystems. Continue reading... |
| Ukraine’s football kit with map featuring Crimea causes outrage in Russia Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:09 AM PDT National team shirt features map of Ukraine that includes Russian-annexed Crimea Russian officials have reacted angrily after the head of Ukraine's football association unveiled a new national team shirt emblazoned with a map of Ukraine that includes Crimea. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and has sought to integrate the peninsula into Russia permanently, but it is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine. Continue reading... |
| Pakistan train crash: dozens killed as express services collide Posted: 07 Jun 2021 12:57 AM PDT At least 38 people killed and up to 20 passengers trapped in wreckage of derailed Millat Express Two express trains have collided in southern Pakistan, killing at least 38 passengers, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull the dead and injured from the wreckage. Up to 20 passengers were still trapped in the wreckage of the Millat Express train, said Umar Tufail, a police chief in Ghotki district in Sindh province, where the collision occurred before dawn. Continue reading... |
| Tory rebels await Speaker’s decision on bid to restore aid pledge Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:34 AM PDT MPs say they received advice amendment is in scope of bill amid claims it has been deemed not relevant Conservative rebels planning to stop Boris Johnson's planned cuts to aid spending could be thwarted if the Speaker rules their amendment to restore the 0.7% pledge is out of scope of the bill. Leaders of the rebellion said they had received advice the amendment was in scope but Tory sources said Commons clerks had told the Speaker that the amendment to the advanced research and invention bill was not relevant to the matters contained in the bill. The Speaker has declined to comment until he speaks to the house. Continue reading... |
| Infected blood scandal: government knew of contaminated plasma ‘long before it admitted it’ Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:15 AM PDT Exclusive: Files at national archives suggest different version of events A minister privately expressed concerns that Aids was being transmitted by contaminated blood products while the government publicly insisted there was no "conclusive evidence", newly uncovered documents from 1983 show. Among the victims of the contaminated blood scandal, which is the subject of a public inquiry, were 1,240 British haemophilia patients most of whom have since died. They were infected with HIV in the 1980s, through an untreated blood product, known as Factor VIII. Continue reading... |
| Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT 'Internationally significant' discovery of male with burial chains in Rutland is first of its kind His ankles secured with heavy, locked iron fetters, the enslaved man appears to have been thrown in a ditch – a final act of indignity in death. Now the discovery of the shackled male skeleton by workers in Rutland – thought to have been aged in his late 20s or early 30s – has been identified as rare and important evidence of slavery in Roman Britain and "an internationally significant find". Continue reading... |
| China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in ‘judgment day’ for bitcoin Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:51 PM PDT Several popular accounts on Twitter-like service are closed down, displaying message saying account 'violates laws and rules' China has stepped up its crackdown on bitcoin trading and mining, blocking a slew of cryptocurrency-related accounts on the Twitter-like Weibo platform over the weekend. More actions are expected, including linking illegal crypto activities in China more directly with the country's criminal law, according to analysts and a financial regulator. Continue reading... |
| Boko Haram leader killed on direct orders of Islamic State Posted: 07 Jun 2021 02:01 AM PDT Isis ordered death of Abubakar Shekau over concerns about indiscriminate targeting of 'believers' The death of the leader of the Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been confirmed by a rival extremist faction that said it carried out the killing on the direct orders of Islamic State's leadership thousands of miles away in the Middle East. Abubakar Shekau, one of the most infamous leaders of Islamic militant groups anywhere in the world, died last month after detonating an explosive device while being pursued by fighters from the Islamic State West African Province (Iswap). The Iswap fighters had stormed the Sambisa forest, a swath of strategically important dense forest in Nigeria's north-east, which was Shekau's base. Continue reading... |
| ‘Hero of Auschwitz’ David Dushman, last surviving liberator of death camp, dies aged 98 Posted: 06 Jun 2021 05:47 PM PDT Red Army soldier David Dushman used his T-34 Soviet tank to mow down the electric fence of the Nazi death camp David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who took part in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1945, has died at the age of 98. He died in a Munich clinic on Friday night, the city's Jewish IKG cultural community said on Sunday, describing him as a liberating "hero of Auschwitz". Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Spain reopens to vaccinated tourists as Taiwan extends pandemic restrictions Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:30 AM PDT UK decision to keep Spain on at-risk list is a potential blow to its tourism revival; Taiwan's daily case numbers remain stubborn as authorities extend level 3 measures to end of June
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has highlighted guidance for doctors which calls for them to avoid heparin when treating rare blood clots and low platelet counts in patients who received AstraZeneca's or Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines. Reuters reports that Europe's drugs regulator, in a statement seeking to boost awareness of proper treatment, focused on guidance from the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), which has concluded "management should be initiated with non-heparin anticoagulation upon suspicion" of vaccine-linked clotting.
Police in Ireland have arrested dozens of people during clashes over three consecutive nights with rowdy crowds, raising doubts about government plans for an "outdoor summer" to curb Covid-19. Gardaí arrested 14 people in central Dublin and eight in Cork on Sunday night, bringing to more than 50 the number of people detained over the bank holiday weekend. Drove into Dublin City Centre to collect someone from work at 815 PM. Absolutely shocked at scenes in South Great George's St, Exchequer St, South William St area. Enormous crowds- like a major open air party. This is what we do not need when we have made so much progress. Continue reading... |
| Spat at, abused, attacked: healthcare staff face rising violence during Covid Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Data shows increased danger for those on the frontline in the pandemic, with misinformation, scarce vaccines and fragile health systems blamed Hundreds of healthcare workers treating Covid patients around the world have experienced verbal, physical, and sometimes life-threatening attacks during the pandemic, prompting calls for immediate action from human rights campaigners. Covid-related attacks on healthcare workers are expected to rise as new variants cause havoc in countries such as India and rollouts of vaccination programmes belatedly get under way in some countries, according to the UN special rapporteur on the right to health. Continue reading... |
| Police in Malaysia use drones to detect high temperatures amid Covid surge Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:23 PM PDT Police have also warned they will use drones to enforce travel restrictions, as Malaysia endures near total lockdown Police in Malaysia are using drones to detect people with high temperatures in public spaces as part of Covid prevention measures, according to local media. The drones, which can detect people's temperatures as high as 20m above ground, emit a red light to alert the authorities if someone has a high reading, Bernama, Malaysia's state news agency, reported. Continue reading... |
| Children are ‘vulnerable host’ for Covid as cases recede, US expert warns Posted: 06 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT
A US public health expert has warned that though cases of Covid-19 are at their lowest rates for months and much of the country is returning to normal life, young Americans are still "a vulnerable host" for the coronavirus. Related: Post-lockdown summer: Americans out for fun and with money to spend Continue reading... |
| Bob Odenkirk: ‘Soon people won’t remember Breaking Bad’ Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT He charmed as slimeball lawyer Saul in the drugs drama and its spinoff – but now Bob Odenkirk has gone badass in action thriller Nobody. Has he left his comedy days behind? On the surface, Bob Odenkirk's new film is entirely preposterous. As the story of a man who goes on a murder spree after his house is broken into, Nobody is an all-out, full-throated action movie. In one scene, 58-year-old Odenkirk tears a handrail off the inside of a bus and beats a man senseless with it. However, as he explains, the story stems from something much more personal. "My family had two break-ins," he reveals from his home in LA, where he's sitting beneath a vast Chinatown poster. "It was very damaging." Continue reading... |
| David Olusoga on race and reality: ‘My job is to be a historian. It’s not to make people feel good’ Posted: 07 Jun 2021 02:30 AM PDT The professor and broadcaster discusses writing black Britishness back into history, the backlash this provokes – and why he's so proud of his heritage History's purpose isn't to comfort us, says David Olusoga, although many in the UK seem to think it is. "History doesn't exist to make us feel good, special, exceptional or magical. History is just history. It is not there as a place of greater safety." As a historian and broadcaster, Olusoga has been battling this misconception for almost two decades, as the producer or presenter of TV series including Civilisations, The World's War, A House Through Time and the Bafta-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. His scholarship has been widely recognised: in 2019, he was awarded an OBE and made a professor at the University of Manchester. (He is also on the board of the Scott Trust, which owns Guardian Media Group.) Yet apologists for empire, in particular, like to dismiss him as a "woke historian" in an attempt to politicise his work or flatly deny the realities that he points out. Continue reading... |
| TV Baftas 2021: backstage with Michaela Coel, Paul Mescal and more – in pictures Posted: 07 Jun 2021 03:19 AM PDT From Connell and Villanelle sharing a moment to Michaela Coel with her mum, The Guardian's Sarah Lee had exclusive behind-the-scenes access to this year's ceremony |
| ‘Alice the rat was so special’: readers on their brilliant, beloved pet tattoos Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT During the pandemic, every pet became an emotional support animal – and many people decided they wanted to commemorate them indelibly and incredibly Alice was a double rex rat we adopted from the local RSPCA. She was such a special girl and we had a great bond, so she was the natural choice for my first tattoo. Sadly, Alice died earlier this year, so I'm getting a second tattoo in tribute in a couple of weeks, on the spot where she loved to sit. |
| ‘The darkest days are coming’: Myanmar’s journalists suffer at hands of junta Posted: 06 Jun 2021 05:11 PM PDT Journalism has been outlawed in all but name since the coup, with reporters and editors fleeing the country or leading double lives to survive As a cyclone rolled over the Bay of Bengal on 24 May, American journalist Danny Fenster, 37, contemplated the brooding skies near a terminal window at Yangon international airport. For a while, the threat of foreigners being seized at the airport by Myanmar's military was real, but after watching international reporters exit the country safely in April, the Michigan native was more worried about turbulence. Continue reading... |
| The pig whisperer: the Dutch farmer who wants to end factory farming Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:30 PM PDT A unique 'pig toilet' and a diet of organic leftovers are part of former vet Kees Scheepens' plans to put animal welfare and sustainability first "Oma, hoi! Hier! Hallooo," Dr Kees Scheepens, a Dutch farmer known as the "pig whisperer", is calling his two oldest pigs for some apricot snacks. Oma or "granny", a seven-year-old sow, lives with a Berkshire boar called Borough, who's nine, off a quiet lane in the town of Oirschot, in the south of the Netherlands, on a farm called Hemelrijken – Dutch for "the realms of heaven". Continue reading... |
| Economic toll of climate crisis ‘will be like two pandemics a year’ | First Thing Posted: 07 Jun 2021 02:57 AM PDT G7 countries have been warned they will lose $5tn a year by 2050 if temperatures rise by 2.6C. Plus, the sharks who aren't afraid of hurricanes Good morning. The world's biggest industrialised economies will shrink by twice as much as they did during the coronavirus pandemic if they do not tackle rising greenhouse gas emissions, according to research. Continue reading... |
| ‘They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor’: health workers under attack Posted: 06 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT From Brazil to Myanmar, five doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients share their experiences Since the pandemic began, healthcare workers have been venerated for treating patients with Covid-19, but they have also been attacked for doing their job. Five doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients, some of whom asked to be kept anonymous, recount their experiences. Continue reading... |
| Daughter of Biloela asylum seekers evacuated from Christmas Island for urgent medical care Posted: 07 Jun 2021 02:08 AM PDT Australian-born Tharnicaa Murugappan in Perth hospital with suspected blood infection after Tamil family's 18-month detention on island The youngest daughter of the Tamil family from Biloela who have been detained for more than 18 months on Christmas Island has been evacuated to Perth for emergency medical care, advocates have said. Tharnicaa Murugappan has been evacuated along with her mother, Priya, after being hospitalised with a suspected blood infection. Continue reading... |
| The Nobel committee should resign over the atrocities in Tigray Posted: 07 Jun 2021 01:15 AM PDT Members of the body that awarded the 2019 peace prize to Ethiopia's premier, Abiy Ahmed, should all depart in protest The war on Tigray in Ethiopia has been going on for months. Thousands of people have been killed and wounded, women and girls have been raped by military forces, and more than 2 million citizens have been forced out of their homes. Prime minister and Nobel peace prize laureate Abiy Ahmed stated that a nation on its way to "prosperity" would experience a few "rough patches" that would create "blisters". This is how he rationalised what is alleged to be a genocide. Nobel committee members have individual responsibility for awarding the 2019 peace prize to Abiy Ahmed, accused of waging the war in Tigray. The members should thus collectively resign their honourable positions at the Nobel committee in protest and defiance. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2021 08:25 PM PDT New Zealanders increasingly believe you need money and connections to get ahead in life Jacinda Ardern can take heart: in the last decade, public attitudes have swung sharply against New Zealand's persistently high levels of economic inequality. Space has opened up for her to pursue the egalitarian agenda she cherishes – although, conversely, her excuses for not acting have sharply diminished. Public opinion surveys from the two decades after 1990 showed a consistent trend: decreasing concern over economic inequality, and decreasing support for government action to tackle it, especially through taxes. The pro-market ideas of New Zealand's 1980s reforms seemed invulnerable. Continue reading... |
| Puffin island: a voyage to one of Scotland’s remotest habitats Posted: 06 Jun 2021 03:46 PM PDT Murdo MacLeod sailed from Mull over to Lunga, the largest of the Treshnish Isles, to photograph the world of the puffin Continue reading... |
| How a tiny Pacific community fought off a giant mining company – video Posted: 06 Jun 2021 02:56 PM PDT A proposal to mine 60% of a tiny island of Wagina in the Pacific was met with outrage by locals and became a landmark case in Solomon Islands.
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