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- PM to confirm 19 July end to Covid rules despite scientists’ warnings
- Hong Kong police say mourning officer’s attacker is like backing terrorism
- Hundreds of Afghan security forces flee as districts fall to Taliban
- Miami condo search resumes after explosives bring down building
- Defiant Jacob Zuma compares South African judges to apartheid rulers
- Ever Given, the ship that blocked the Suez canal, to be released after settlement agreed
- Number of missing in Japan landslide climbs to more than 100
- New Zealand experiences hottest June on record despite polar blast
- Azerbaijan says ‘mud volcano’ caused Caspian Sea explosion
- Antarctic expedition to renew search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance
- Coronavirus live news: Australian minister likens vaccines race to Hunger Games; Indonesia says ‘no vaccine, no entry’
- ‘Idea of commuting fills me with dread’: workers on returning to the office
- Pop-up ‘coronabikes’ test German love of order
- New York’s patchwork recovery masks vast inequities laid bare by Covid
- Feel Good’s Mae Martin: ‘If you put a teenage girl in any industry, people will take advantage’
- Feral deer in the headlines: Australia’s ‘slow-moving plague’ is finally being noticed
- Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
- ‘I had designed it a little too small’: Abraham Poincheval on spending a week inside a sculpture of himself
- Venu 2 review: can Garmin make a good smartwatch?
- Reporting on Israel: ‘Thirty years on, we are still covering the same old enmities’
- TfL hit by £100m fall in ad revenue across tube, rail and bus network
- Malawi Pride and press freedoms in Palestine: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- Capitol attack: what Pelosi’s select committee is likely to investigate
- Covid Australia live updates: 620 NSW health staff isolating and visitors restricted as all Greater Sydney hospitals on ‘red alert’
- I thought HIV meant death but it led me to fight to save millions of lives | Vuyiseka Dubula
- ‘I can’t give up on my leg’: the Gaza protesters resisting amputation at all costs
- Politics trumps Covid science in Javid’s push to ‘live with the virus’
- Afghanistan: America’s ‘longest war’ ends amid accusations of betrayal
- Captured Ethiopian government soldiers reach Tigray capital – in pictures
- Partially collapsed Florida condo fully demolished in late-night controlled explosion – video
- UK's Africa minister confuses Zambia with Zimbabwe at Kenneth Kaunda funeral – video
- Philippines: at least 45 people die in military plane crash – video
- Japan: rescuers search for survivors in town hit by deadly landslide – video
| PM to confirm 19 July end to Covid rules despite scientists’ warnings Posted: 04 Jul 2021 02:30 PM PDT Boris Johnson to press ahead with final stage of unlocking in England amid huge rise in infections Boris Johnson is to announce that the lifting of most remaining Covid-19 restrictions in England will go ahead on 19 July amid a backlash from government scientific advisers who have warned that doing so would be like building new "variant factories". Despite cases having risen to their highest level since January 2021, the prime minister is set to press ahead with the final stage of unlocking in two weeks. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong police say mourning officer’s attacker is like backing terrorism Posted: 05 Jul 2021 12:51 AM PDT Authorities called assailant a 'lone wolf' domestic terrorist who had been politically radicalised Police in Hong Kong have told citizens that mourning the death of a man who stabbed a police officer last week is "no different to supporting terrorism", as the case was taken over by the national security department. The comments followed the stabbing of an officer in the back on Thursday night by a 50-year-old man at Causeway Bay. Police said the man then took his own life. The 28-year-old officer sustained a punctured lung in the attack and remains in hospital in a critical condition, according to local media. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of Afghan security forces flee as districts fall to Taliban Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:01 AM PDT Militants' advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to country The Taliban's rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the final days of its two-decade deployment to Afghanistan. More than 300 members of the Afghan security forces fled across the border into Tajikistan to escape the militants, and Badakhshan and Takhar provinces are now largely under Taliban control, beyond the respective regional capitals. Continue reading... |
| Miami condo search resumes after explosives bring down building Posted: 05 Jul 2021 12:57 AM PDT Rescuers hope demolition will give them access to underground garage of Surfside building where victims may be buried Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the building's remains in a plume of dust. Miami-Dade County's mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, said the demolition went "exactly as planned" at about 10.30pm on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Defiant Jacob Zuma compares South African judges to apartheid rulers Posted: 04 Jul 2021 05:02 PM PDT Former president rails against jail sentence as armed supporters mass outside his home South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma has lashed out at the judges who this week gave him a 15-month jail term for absconding from a corruption inquiry, comparing them to the white minority apartheid rulers he once fought. Zuma spoke at his home in Nklandla, in a rural part of Kwazulu Natal province, where hundreds of his supporters, some of them armed, were gathered to prevent his arrest. Continue reading... |
| Ever Given, the ship that blocked the Suez canal, to be released after settlement agreed Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:10 PM PDT The Suez Canal Authority has held the Ever Given and its crew in a lake between two stretches of the waterway since it was dislodged on 29 March The owners and insurers of the Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March have announced that a formal settlement had been agreed in a compensation dispute, and the canal authority said the vessel would be allowed to sail on 7 July. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has held the giant ship and its crew in a lake between two stretches of the waterway since it was dislodged on 29 March, amid a dispute over a demand for compensation by the SCA. Continue reading... |
| Number of missing in Japan landslide climbs to more than 100 Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:30 PM PDT Number rose after officials in Atami checked residential registers rather than relying on reports of missing people following mudslide Officials in Japan have dramatically raised their estimate of the number of people still missing after a mudslide ripped through a seaside town at the weekend. Reports said three people had died in the disaster, which occurred after days of torrential rain in Atami, a famous hot spring resort about 60 miles (90 km) south-west of Tokyo. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand experiences hottest June on record despite polar blast Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:11 PM PDT Average temperatures for the month were 2C higher than normal, with 24 separate locations hitting their own records New Zealand has experienced its hottest June since records began more than 110 years ago, according to official climate data. Despite a polar blast that swept up the country last week, figures from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research's (NIWA) show the average temperature for June was 2C warmer than usual, with twenty-four locations around the country hitting their own record highs. Continue reading... |
| Azerbaijan says ‘mud volcano’ caused Caspian Sea explosion Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:01 PM PDT Caspian Sea has high concentration of mud volcanoes, which spew both mud and flammable gas A strong explosion has shaken the Caspian Sea area where Azerbaijan has extensive offshore oil and gas fields. The cause of the blast, which caused a column of fire to rise into the sky late on Sunday, was not immediately determined, but the state oil company Socar said preliminary information indicated it was a mud volcano. Socar said none of its platforms were damaged in the explosion. Continue reading... |
| Antarctic expedition to renew search for Shackleton’s ship Endurance Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Endurance22 will launch early next year with aim of locating and surveying wreck in the Weddell Sea The location of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance has been one of the great maritime mysteries since the ship became trapped in ice and sank in 1915. Finding this symbol of the "heroic age" of polar exploration at the bottom of the Weddell Sea was long thought impossible because of the harshness of the Antarctic environment – "the evil conditions", as Shackleton described them. Now a major scientific expedition, announced on Monday, is being planned with a mission to locate, survey and film the wreck. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:12 AM PDT New South Wales health minister makes frank assessment of sluggish rollout; from 6 July foreigners and nationals entering Indonesia must be vaccinated
A very quick snap from Reuters here that Ukraine has approved the Covid vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. Ukraine has already approved several vaccines, including AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
The Russian figures are in for the day and the daily caseload remains at its heightened level. Reuters report that there were 24,353 new Covid cases on Monday, including 6,557 in Moscow. The government coronavirus task force said 654 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours. Continue reading... |
| ‘Idea of commuting fills me with dread’: workers on returning to the office Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Staff warily contemplate going back to work as business leaders say it is vital to boost urban economy With the lifting of coronavirus restrictions in England probably two weeks away, the prospect of returning to offices means the revival of the daily commute. In a push to bring back more people to town and city centres to boost the urban economy, a group of 50 business leaders, including the Canary Wharf executive chair, Sir George Iacobescu, the bosses of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, the Capita chief executive, Jon Lewis, and the BT chief executive, Philip Jansen, are calling for the government to encourage a return to the office. Continue reading... |
| Pop-up ‘coronabikes’ test German love of order Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:26 PM PDT Mobile Covid testing units offering results in 15 minutes are among a host of rapid tests that play a crucial role in keeping rates down Parked outside an espresso bar on Berlin's Potsdamer Platz junction, Maximilian Fritzsch's mobile coronavirus testing unit aims for similar speed of service as an on-the-go shot of caffeine. Working from the back of a cargo e-bike, staff in lab coats take a quick swab from the nostrils of stressed commuters, who usually receive the result in their inboxes within 15 minutes. "It is a bit physically intrusive", said office worker Luisa Larsen, 42, as she impatiently checked her smartphone for the test result. "But then again it's free, and it feels like the responsible thing to do." Continue reading... |
| New York’s patchwork recovery masks vast inequities laid bare by Covid Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT There are signs of renewal in a city that has weathered crisis after crisis, but what its future looks like remains an open question For most of the past year, Manhattan's signature yellow cabs have been a rarity on the avenues and cross-streets. Now, as the city picks up and office workers begin to return, they too are returning – but not yet on a pre-pandemic scale. At the same time, the city is gridlocked by traffic. A patchwork of indicators suggest the recovery from a pandemic that hit hard and early, caused close to 30,000 deaths out of a 8.4-million population and placed the metropolis in an economic deep-freeze will be similarly uneven. Continue reading... |
| Feel Good’s Mae Martin: ‘If you put a teenage girl in any industry, people will take advantage’ Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT The non-binary comedian's hit TV show draws heavily on an often troubled life. They talk about addiction at 14, the loving parents who kicked them out, the older men who abused their trust – and the happiness they eventually found At the beginning of the pandemic Mae Martin's first TV series, Feel Good, was broadcast on Channel 4 to great acclaim. Just recently, the second series came out on Netflix to even greater acclaim. While most of us have disappeared in lockdown, Martin has become a star. Feel Good is a disarmingly autobiographical love story. It tells the story of a character called Mae struggling with relationships, addiction, identity and life on the comedy circuit. Mae is attracted to men and women, but to women more, particularly women who identify as straight. The first series focuses on Mae's relationship with Georgina, a teacher who had previously only slept with men and is reluctant to admit to her super-straight, super-posh friends that she and Mae are living together. Mae is a mix of streetwise and naive – reckless, precocious, promiscuous, self-absorbed and a bag of nerves. Continue reading... |
| Feral deer in the headlines: Australia’s ‘slow-moving plague’ is finally being noticed Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:30 AM PDT Experts say now's the time to get on top of the destructive impact of the invasive species on vulnerable ecosystems If there is one thing beef cattle farmer Ted Rowley has learned while trying to manage feral deer on his property, it is this: for every deer that you see, there are at least another 10 that you can't see. "In the beginning you see a few deer and think that's pretty cute," he says. "But what you don't see is the very large number that are across the landscape." Continue reading... |
| Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT The effects of 'weird weather' were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom In August 1974, the CIA produced a study on "climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems". The diagnosis was dramatic. It warned of the emergence of a new era of weird weather, leading to political unrest and mass migration (which, in turn, would cause more unrest). The new era the agency imagined wasn't necessarily one of hotter temperatures; the CIA had heard from scientists warning of global cooling as well as warming. But the direction in which the thermometer was travelling wasn't their immediate concern; it was the political impact. They knew that the so-called "little ice age", a series of cold snaps between, roughly, 1350 and 1850, had brought not only drought and famine, but also war – and so could these new climatic changes. "The climate change began in 1960," the report's first page informs us, "but no one, including the climatologists, recognised it." Crop failures in the Soviet Union and India in the early 1960s had been attributed to standard unlucky weather. The US shipped grain to India and the Soviets killed off livestock to eat, "and premier Nikita Khrushchev was quietly deposed". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT He's lived within a boulder, hatched a nest of hen's eggs, and now plans to encase himself in a beehive. Is this France's most extreme performance artist –and how does he go to the toilet? Last month, in a smart gallery in Paris, the back of a sculpture was removed and a man was lifted out. He looked around, disoriented, as his body slowly unfurled. A doctor rushed to his side and, after inspecting him, announced he was in good health. The crowd cheered. He'd been in there for seven days. Abraham Poincheval, possibly France's most extreme performance artist, specialises in surreal feats of endurance, often in tight spots. He has lived inside a rock for seven days, and a stuffed bear for 13. For this latest work, Hartung, he decided to look at a painting by abstract artist Hans Hartung for seven days straight. He even built a special contraption for it: an aluminium shell of a man sitting on a block, looking down a large square funnel. Continue reading... |
| Venu 2 review: can Garmin make a good smartwatch? Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Fitness firm's new Apple Watch-rival looks the part and tracks loads of data but lacks some real smarts Garmin's latest device aims to beat the Apple Watch and rivals at their own game, offering longer battery life and better fitness tracking in a more traditional touchscreen smartwatch body. Continue reading... |
| Reporting on Israel: ‘Thirty years on, we are still covering the same old enmities’ Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT The Guardian's outgoing Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes talks to predecessor Ian Black about how much – and how little – the job has changed over the years It was the end of the 1980s and the Guardian's Middle East correspondent, Ian Black, was talking shop with his competitor at the Sunday Times, the late Marie Colvin. "We were discussing when there might be a Palestinian state," Black recalls of their conversation in Jerusalem. "We thought maybe it would happen in two or three years." Israel and the Palestinian territories were deep into the first intifada, an uprising against the occupation that lasted from 1987 until the early 90s. It was a period in which violence spiked, but also a time of nascent hope that the lengthy military grip over Palestinian life might finally end. Continue reading... |
| TfL hit by £100m fall in ad revenue across tube, rail and bus network Posted: 04 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: record low level of London journeys during Covid crisis drives down commercial income Transport for London (TfL) has recorded a £100m plunge in advertising revenue across its network of tube stations, trains and buses after Covid-19 pandemic restrictions kept commuters away from travelling to work. TfL's advertising estate – which comprises more than 100,000 billboards, posters and panels throughout the capital's tube and rail network, in trains and on buses and shelters – is one of the largest and most valuable in the world. Continue reading... |
| Malawi Pride and press freedoms in Palestine: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Chile to Cambodia Continue reading... |
| Capitol attack: what Pelosi’s select committee is likely to investigate Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT The body created by the speaker will have a broad mandate to examine the facts, circumstances and causes of the Capitol attack Nancy Pelosi's creation of a House select committee to investigate the 6 January insurrection reopens the possibility of a comprehensive inquiry into myriad security failures and the causes of the deadly attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob. Related: Nancy Pelosi signals hard line on formation of 6 January select committee Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Jul 2021 02:10 AM PDT New Zealand restarts the travel bubble with Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the ACT; infected aged care resident at SummitCare home in NSW was not vaccinated. Follow latest updates
Here's the main news on Monday, 5 July:
Circling back on that story involving the NRL penalties handed out to St George Illawarra players for attending a party in breach of Covid-19 restrictions. Sure, there's enormous fines totalling $305,000 for the 13 players. But the suspensions are also fairly significant, ranging from eight matches handed down to Paul Vaughan, who hosted the party, to one match for some of the attendees. The NRL alleges that player Paul Vaughan invited players to a gathering at his home on Saturday 3 July which was attended by 12 teammates, in breach of NSW Public Health Orders and the Game's biosecurity protocols. It's alleged a number of players hid or fled the residence when NSW Police attended the home after complaints from neighbours. It's also alleged that a number of players gave or were involved in giving misleading information about the event during the NRL's investigation into the breaches and that some of the players conspired to withhold key information from the NRL. The notices allege that all players involved knowingly breached the game's biosecurity rules by attending the premeditated gathering. They were made aware of the game's Biosecurity Protocols by the club and admit they knew they were breaching the game's rules. Continue reading... |
| I thought HIV meant death but it led me to fight to save millions of lives | Vuyiseka Dubula Posted: 05 Jul 2021 01:33 AM PDT Twenty years ago in South Africa people were dying unable to access expensive antiretrovirals. The creation of the Global Fund was gamechanging In 2001, at the age of 22 – when I thought my life had just begun – I was diagnosed with HIV. At that time, the diagnosis felt like a death sentence. Every day, I waited for my hour to die. However, after two months of waiting, death didn't come. Continue reading... |
| ‘I can’t give up on my leg’: the Gaza protesters resisting amputation at all costs Posted: 04 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Despite chronic pain and deadly infections, Palestinians wounded in protests three years ago still hope to recover without surgery Sitting on his hospital bed, with external fixators screwed into his right leg, Mohammed al-Mughari has been in pain and on medication since he was shot in the leg more than three years ago. He lives with a chronic bone infection – from bacteria now resistant to most antibiotics. Doctors, including in Jordan and Egypt where he sought treatment previously, have all recommended that an amputation could end his long-term suffering, but he has steadfastly refused. Continue reading... |
| Politics trumps Covid science in Javid’s push to ‘live with the virus’ Posted: 04 Jul 2021 12:22 PM PDT Experts are urging greater vaccination coverage and action over ventilation in public spaces before lifting restrictions For months, the prime minister has repeated the mantra that further easing of Covid-19 restrictions would be about "data and not dates". Yet, as coronavirus cases in the UK continue to surge, and scientists warn that fully reopening society risks building "variant factories" in our own back yard, the government appears poised to put one date – 19 July – ahead of everything else. Once again, politics has trumped science. Since Sajid Javid's appointment as health secretary on 26 June, the UK has confirmed a further 188,538 coronavirus cases, with approximately 25,000 extra people testing positive each day. On Sunday, Javid said that the best way to protect the nation's health was by lifting the main Covid-19 restrictions, even though this would result in a further significant increase in cases. "We are going to have to learn to accept the existence of Covid and find ways to cope with it – just as we already do with flu," he said. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan: America’s ‘longest war’ ends amid accusations of betrayal Posted: 04 Jul 2021 04:00 AM PDT Analysis: Washington did not learn the lessons of Vietnam and more death and suffering are inevitable The US war in Afghanistan was not supposed to be another Vietnam. "I don't do quagmires," said Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of the original US invasion, who died last week. In the end the former US defence secretary did two quagmires, airily assuming Afghanistan was "won" in the spring of 2003 when he sent American troops to fight in Iraq. US combat troops were in Vietnam for eight years, but they have been in Afghanistan for 20. It has been America's longest war by far. Continue reading... |
| Captured Ethiopian government soldiers reach Tigray capital – in pictures Posted: 05 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT Since the interim government of Ethiopia's Tigray region fled after rebel fighters advanced into Mekelle, a 'unilateral ceasefire' has been announced. More than 7,000 captive Ethiopian soldiers walked from Abdi Eshir for four days Continue reading... |
| Partially collapsed Florida condo fully demolished in late-night controlled explosion – video Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:57 PM PDT The partially collapsed Miami-area condo has been demolished. Demolition crews set off explosives to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo where no one has so far been found alive. The demolition Sunday night was key to resuming the search for victims of the 24 June collapse, with the approaching Hurricane Elsa storm adding urgency to the project. So far, rescuers have recovered the remains of 24 people, with 121 still missing. Continue reading... |
| UK's Africa minister confuses Zambia with Zimbabwe at Kenneth Kaunda funeral – video Posted: 04 Jul 2021 09:39 AM PDT James Duddridge made the slip-up in a speech at the funeral of Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president and one of Africa's last surviving liberation leaders, in the country's capital, Lusaka, last week. Kaunda, who died last month at the age of 97, ruled Zambia from 1964, when it won independence from Britain, until 1991. 'Today the United Kingdom mourns Dr Kaunda's passing alongside his family, the people of Zimbabwe and indeed the wider world,' said Duddridge. The slip prompted anger on social media, with some seeing evidence of enduring colonial-era attitudes among British officials towards African countries Continue reading... |
| Philippines: at least 45 people die in military plane crash – video Posted: 04 Jul 2021 07:47 AM PDT At least 45 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the south of the country, officials have said. Ninety-two people, most of them recent army graduates, were onboard the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft when the crash happened as the plane tried to land on Jolo island in Sulu province at about midday on Sunday. Photos taken by the local media outlet Pondohan TV and posted on Facebook showed the wrecked body of the plane engulfed in flames. A plume of thick black smoke rose above houses near the crash site Continue reading... |
| Japan: rescuers search for survivors in town hit by deadly landslide – video Posted: 04 Jul 2021 06:40 AM PDT More than 1,000 rescuers have arrived in Atami, a Japanese town hit by a landslide on Saturday that killed two people. The rescuers climbed on to cracked roofs and searched cars thrown on to engulfed buildings, as more rain lashed the area. About 20 people are still missing after the huge landslide, which was caused by days of heavy rain that swept away homes in central Japan. Television footage showed a torrent of mud crushing some buildings and burying others in Atami, a resort town south-west of Tokyo, while residents ran as it crashed over a hillside road Continue reading... |
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