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- Haiti: four dead after police gunfight with suspected killers of president Jovenel Moïse
- Coronavirus live news: French told to avoid Spain and Portugal holidays; travel curbs proposed in Thailand
- England’s dreaming: Euro 2020 final offers chance to scratch 55-year itch | Jonathan Liew
- Eswatini protests: ‘we are fighting a liberation struggle’
- ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
- UK employers struggle with worst labour shortage since 1997
- South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma hands himself in to police
- Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’
- Explosion at Dubai’s Jebel Ali port sends tremors across city
- Australian government must protect young people from climate crisis harm, court declares
- Outrage over shutdown of LGBTQ WeChat accounts in China
- Spectators to face Olympic ban as Tokyo Covid emergency declared – report
- Shapps confirms no quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list returnees in England
- ‘A world problem’: immigrant families hit by Covid jab gap
- Fears of new US Covid surge as Delta spreads and many remain unvaccinated
- My summer of love: ‘I realised intimacy and tingling excitement could exist alongside sadness’
- ‘A great city has been defaced’: why has a poo emoji arrived on Edinburgh’s skyline?
- ‘Southgate You’re the One’: social media reacts to England’s win
- James Norton: ‘I try to present myself as friendly and people see something darker’
- The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
- ‘So enigmatic’: injured sloth inspires rescue centre in Venezuela
- ‘It’s beautiful, it’s unbelievable’: England win sparks night of celebration
- Canada’s government needs to face up to its role in Indigenous children’s deaths | Cindy Blackstock and Pamela Palmater
- Western Sydney residents feel they are being ‘scapegoated’ as police pledge Covid crackdown
- Covid surge pushes Indonesia’s health system to the brink
- ‘Tragic’: Justice Elena Kagan’s scorching dissent on Arizona voting restrictions
- Precarious moment: Vanuatu court to rule on prime minister’s fate
- Age, sex, vaccine dose, chronic illness – insight into risk factors for severe Covid is growing
- Large explosion on container ship at Jebel Ali port rocks Dubai – video
- WHO urges countries ‘not to lose gains’ by prematurely lifting Covid restrictions – video
| Haiti: four dead after police gunfight with suspected killers of president Jovenel Moïse Posted: 07 Jul 2021 09:43 PM PDT Police say another two attackers have been detained and that assailants will be 'killed or captured' Haiti's security forces have killed four members of a group of "mercenaries" who assassinated President Jovenel Moïse in his home, police chief Leon Charles has said. "The police is still in combat with the assailants," Charles said in a televised briefing late on Wednesday, "We blocked them en route as they left the scene of the crime. Since then, we have been battling with them." Two of the attackers had been detained. Of the rest he said: "They will be killed or captured". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:59 AM PDT French minister says people should avoid travel to Spain and Portugal over Delta variant concerns; Thailand reports new record death toll
Hong Kong's government has said that two officials were fined for violating social distancing rules in response to local media reports that they were both given fixed penalty tickets in March. The city's Customs and Excise Department Commissioner Tang Yi-Hoi and Immigration Department Director Au Ka-Wang were both fined HK$5,000 each according to local broadcaster RTHK.
China has reported 17 new Covid-19 cases for yesterday compared with 57 a day earlier, the national health authority said. Two of the new infections were confirmed locally transmitted cases, both in Yunnan province, the National Health Commission said in a statement. The rest were imported. There were no new deaths. The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, stood at 10. China has now reported 91,966 confirmed coronavirus cases, the commission said. The death toll from the coronavirus remained at 4,636, Reuters reports. Continue reading... |
| England’s dreaming: Euro 2020 final offers chance to scratch 55-year itch | Jonathan Liew Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:47 PM PDT After a close, tense tussle with Denmark, England are into their first major men's tournament final since 1966 At 10.11pm on a cool Wednesday night at a febrile, fevered Wembley Stadium, Harry Kane stepped forward. It had been a tightly-knotted, impossibly close semi-final: the kind where the tension winds itself around your guts like a sickness, where the picture seems to blur a little at the edges, where everything feels real and not real at once. England and Denmark were locked at one-all. Thirteen minutes into extra time, Kane had the key. Kane stepped up to take his penalty: sturdily, not confidently, almost as if the baggage of 55 years was tethered to him as he ran. The penalty was saved by Kasper Schmeichel but ran free; Kane buried the rebound, and in that moment England were coming home. For the first time in men's football, they are European Championship finalists; their game against Italy at Wembley on Sunday evening certain to be one of this country's biggest ever sporting occasions. Continue reading... |
| Eswatini protests: ‘we are fighting a liberation struggle’ Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Dozens have died seeking reforms to African kingdom where many are dubious about authorities' offer of talks Authorities in Eswatini have promised a "national dialogue" in an attempt to avert further unrest after dozens died and hundreds of businesses were burned down in weeks of protest in Africa's only remaining absolute monarchy. The move has been greeted with scepticism by opposition leaders and analysts, with fears of further violence in the landlocked country of 1.3 million if there are no significant reforms to the autocratic political system. Continue reading... |
| ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT British Columbia scientist says heat essentially cooked mussels: 'The shore doesn't usually crunch when you walk' More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada's Pacific coast are likely to have died from last week's record heatwave, experts warn, highlighting the vulnerability of ecosystems unaccustomed to extreme temperatures. The "heat dome" that settled over western Canada and the north-western US for five days pushed temperatures in communities along the coast to 40C (104F) – shattering longstanding records and offering little respite for days. Continue reading... |
| UK employers struggle with worst labour shortage since 1997 Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Rush to reopen and departure of overseas workers have caused problems in areas including transport, hospitality and construction Britain's employers are struggling with the worst staff shortages since the late 1990s, amid the rush to reopen from lockdown and a sharp drop in overseas workers due to Covid and Brexit. Sounding the alarm over the risks to economic recovery from acute labour shortages, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and the accountancy firm KPMG said the number of available workers plunged in June at the fastest rate since 1997. Continue reading... |
| South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma hands himself in to police Posted: 08 Jul 2021 01:20 AM PDT Zuma is to serve 15-month sentence at correctional centre in KwaZulu-Natal, say authorities South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma is on his way to jail after handing himself in to police to serve 15 months in jail for contempt of court, ending almost a week of defiance from his homestead in the south-eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. Zuma's decision to abandon his fight against imprisonment averts a potentially violent confrontation between his supporters and police, and will relieve senior officials of the ruling African National Congress party (ANC). Continue reading... |
| Climate crisis ‘may put 8bn at risk of malaria and dengue’ Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Reducing global heating could save millions of people from mosquito-borne diseases, study finds More than 8 billion people could be at risk of malaria and dengue fever by 2080 if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise unabated, a new study says. Malaria and dengue fever will spread to reach billions of people, according to new projections. Continue reading... |
| Explosion at Dubai’s Jebel Ali port sends tremors across city Posted: 07 Jul 2021 06:31 PM PDT Fiery blast on container ship was powerful enough to be seen from space by satellite A container ship anchored at Dubai's port caught fire late on Wednesday, causing a huge explosion that sent tremors across the United Arab Emirates' commercial hub. The blaze sent up giant orange flames on a vessel at the crucial Jebel Ali port, the busiest in the Middle East, and unleashed a shock wave through the skyscraper-studded city, causing walls and windows to shake in neighbourhoods as far as 25 kilometres (15 miles) away. Continue reading... |
| Australian government must protect young people from climate crisis harm, court declares Posted: 07 Jul 2021 09:38 PM PDT Environment minister has 28 days to appeal historic ruling that carbon emissions from coalmine should not cause young people 'personal injury or death' • Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing Australia's federal court has formally declared the nation's environment minister has a "duty to take reasonable care" that young people won't be harmed or killed by carbon dioxide emissions if she approves a coalmine expansion, in a judgment that could have wider implications for fossil fuel projects. In the federal court case, brought by eight schoolchildren and an octogenarian nun, Justice Mordecai Bromberg on Thursday also ordered the minister pay all costs. Continue reading... |
| Outrage over shutdown of LGBTQ WeChat accounts in China Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:03 AM PDT Dozens of WeChat accounts have been blocked and deleted without warning An online clampdown of social media accounts associated with China's campus LGBTQ movement has sparked outrage, solidarity and backlash against the authorities' treatment of the country's sexual and gender minorities. Dozens of WeChat accounts run by LGBTQ university students were blocked and then deleted on Tuesday, without warning. Some of the accounts – a mix of registered student clubs and unofficial grassroots groups – had operated for years as safe spaces for China's LGBTQ youth, with tens of thousands of followers. Continue reading... |
| Spectators to face Olympic ban as Tokyo Covid emergency declared – report Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:18 AM PDT Japanese prime minister says Tokyo's fourth state of emergency will begin on Monday Olympic organisers are set to ban all spectators from the Tokyo Games, the Asahi newspaper has reported, as Japan's prime minister declared a state of emergency in the host city. If confirmed, the ban on spectators would mark the latest blow to the troubled Olympics, delayed by a year because of the pandemic and plagued by a series of setbacks, including massive budget overruns. A formal decision will be reached later on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Shapps confirms no quarantine for fully vaccinated amber list returnees in England Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:38 AM PDT New rules to come into effect from 19 July potentially opening up many tourist hotspots to English holidaymakers Holidaymakers from England travelling to amber list countries will not have to quarantine on return if they are fully vaccinated, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has announced. The announcement, which will take effect from 19 July, could open up swathes of European tourist destinations such as Spain, Portugal and Greece to travellers, though countries could impose their own quarantine rules on arrivals from England. Continue reading... |
| ‘A world problem’: immigrant families hit by Covid jab gap Posted: 08 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Families spread across rich and poor countries are acutely aware of relatives' lack of access to vaccine For months she had been dreaming of it and finally Susheela Moonsamy was able to do it: get together with her relatives and give them a big hug. Throughout the pandemic she had only seen her siblings, nieces and nephews fully "masked up" at socially distanced gatherings. But a few weeks ago, as their home state of California pressed on with its efficient vaccination rollout, they could have a proper reunion. "It was such an emotional experience, we all hugged each other; and with tears in our eyes, we thanked God for being with us and giving us the opportunity to see each other close up again and actually touch each other," she says. "We never valued a hug from our family members that much before." Continue reading... |
| Fears of new US Covid surge as Delta spreads and many remain unvaccinated Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Vast majority of deaths are in unvaccinated people, as cases rise in nearly half of states More than nine out of 10 Americans who died from Covid-19 in the US in June were unvaccinated, according to Anthony Fauci – a statistic that health officials say is especially concerning given the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy in some regions and the rise of the Delta variant. Maryland reported this week that 100% of those who died from coronavirus there in June had not been vaccinated, while more than 93% of those with new cases or who were hospitalized were similarly unprotected. Continue reading... |
| My summer of love: ‘I realised intimacy and tingling excitement could exist alongside sadness’ Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT After our GCSEs, my first girlfriend and I took our tent to Reading festival and found levity in a very difficult year There is a peculiar romance to British summer music festivals. Some kind of consequence-free hedonism emerges when you combine bouts of torrential rain with the rancid stench of overflowing chemical toilets, the stomach-fizz of morning beers, and the itch of last night's glitter pressed into your unwashed skin. It makes for the perfect conditions to distract the head and, for once, indulge the heart. It was the summer of 2010 when I camped out at Reading festival, the August blow-out that 16-year-olds from the UK's south-east use as a putrid marker of their transition from secondary school to college; from adolescence to something approaching young adulthood. Continue reading... |
| ‘A great city has been defaced’: why has a poo emoji arrived on Edinburgh’s skyline? Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT With its spires, castle and monuments, the Scottish capital's glorious panorama is world famous. Now a looming new addition has appeared – and is causing outrage You can't polish a turd, but you can clad it in bronze-coloured steel. Edinburgh's new W Hotel is proof. Poking its faecal peak above the historic skyline, puncturing the globally cherished panorama of elegant stone steeples and spires, this shimmering pile is evidence that, despite all the Unesco World Heritage site protections, conservation group campaigns and lengthy planning negotiations, shit still happens. Trumpeting the arrival of the £1bn St James Quarter retail-hotel-housing behemoth to the Georgian New Town, the bronzed coil now butts on to the horizon from practically every prospect of the Scottish capital. From some angles, it appears to squat on other buildings' shoulders, like an unfortunate deposit dropped from on high. From others, it looms up in the background, standing as a menacing dung heap at the end of axial vistas (perhaps appropriately in the case of the Melville monument, providing a soiled backdrop to a man who delayed the abolition of slavery). Just when you thought you'd evaded the gilded mess, its pert tip rears up above the rooftops with a mocking flick. |
| ‘Southgate You’re the One’: social media reacts to England’s win Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:18 AM PDT Fans share jokes and clips including a stadium rendition of Whole Again and mocking Boris Johnson's shirt As sure as night follows day, social media memes follow a big sporting event, and so England fans on Wednesday night enjoyed sharing jokes and clips of events around the Euro 2020 semi-final win almost as much as the victory itself. Mason Mount was showered with praise after this video clip of him giving his shirt to a young girl in the Wembley crowd took off on social media. Her emotional reaction summed up how many England fans must have felt after such a long wait to reach a major tournament final again. Continue reading... |
| James Norton: ‘I try to present myself as friendly and people see something darker’ Posted: 08 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT After playing psychopaths and priests, the actor is starring in an almost unbearably tragic role. He discusses bullies, broodiness and blockbusters James Norton's latest film, Nowhere Special, has a premise so tragic it should be completely unfilmable. He plays John, a 35-year-old single father who is given a few months to live, and has to find a new family for his three-year-old son. Even before you factor in the incredible performance by Daniel Lamont, who was only four when the film was shot, it sounds too obviously a tear-jerker, especially from Uberto Pasolini, a director known for Still Life, a very finely drawn, understated film in 2013, which comes at death from a much more oblique angle. In fact, the film slips deftly past any obvious poignance to create something much more complicated, with arresting performances from Norton and his tiny co-star. "Credit must be given to the director," Norton insists, on Zoom from his home in London. "He said: 'I don't want this to be brutally sad, I want this to be about life as much as it is about death.'" This you might characterise as a standard actorly response, generous and modest. Then there's more: "My taste is aligned to that kind of performance. But the subject is so charged and universal, you feel the responsibility sometimes as an actor to show that you recognise how operatic and sad this is. Every time, I would give him a performance that was big, and schmaltzy and gooey, and he was like: 'Yeah, I know you really liked that, but I'm not going to use it.'" Continue reading... |
| The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it – or rather, so much less The abiding image of the Iraq war in 2003 was the toppling of a statue of the country's dictator, Saddam Hussein. It was an image relayed across the world as a symbol of victory for the American-led coalition, and liberation for the Iraqi people. But was that the truth? Putting up a statue is an attempt to create a story about history. During the invasion of Iraq, the pulling down of a statue was also an attempt to create a story about history. The story of Saddam's statue shows both the possibilities, and the limits, of making a myth. Operation Iraqi Freedom, as it was called by those running it, began on 20 March 2003. It was led by the US at the head of a "coalition of the willing", including troops from Australia, Poland and the UK. President George W Bush claimed that the aims of the operation were clear: "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people". He continued: "The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder … It is a fight for the security of our nation and the peace of the world, and we will accept no outcome but victory." This justification for war was hotly disputed at the time, and has been ever since. Continue reading... |
| ‘So enigmatic’: injured sloth inspires rescue centre in Venezuela Posted: 08 Jul 2021 01:04 AM PDT Couple steps in to rehabilitate injured sloths amid conservation crisis caused by Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing economic slump It is almost a year to the day that Haydée and Juan Carlos Rodríguez first spotted an injured sloth lying by the side of the road while they were out on a drive. In an attempt to cross from one tree to another in the Venezuelan town of San Antonio de Los Altos, near Caracas, the sloth had climbed on to a high-voltage power line and been electrocuted. The animal had lost the claws on three of its paws because of burns and the Rodríguezes were told by a local wildlife expert that it was not likely to survive, and that they should leave it to die. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s beautiful, it’s unbelievable’: England win sparks night of celebration Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:58 PM PDT David Beckham, Adele and Dua Lipa salute team's achievement as fans party in the wake of Euro 2020 semi final victory over Denmark England fans are 90 minutes away from seeing the men's national team win a major tournament for the first time in more than half a century after Harry Kane sent the Three Lions to the Euro 2020 final. After the captain scored the winning goal on the rebound after his extra-time penalty had been saved,60,000 fans in Wembley were sent into delirium along with millions of fans around the country. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:53 AM PDT It's time for ministers to stop consigning the residential schools scandal to a 'dark history', and deal with ongoing injustices Ground-penetrating sonar found the children's bodies that the survivors of Canada's "residential schools" always knew were there. For more than a century, these schools functioned as re-education camps run by the Canadian government and Catholic church to assimilate Indigenous children. Children were raped, locked in chicken coops, shocked in an electric chair, subject to medical experiments, confined by electric fences and all too often dug the graves of other children who were buried in unmarked graves. This happened under the cover of the Bible, while the Canadian government promoted itself as a bastion of human rights. More than 1,000 unmarked children's graves have been discovered at former residential schools. Why was the truth buried for so long? The answer lies in the weaponisation of history. In his presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada in 1922, Duncan Campbell Scott, the Canadian civil servant who ran the residential schools at their peak between 1913 and 1932, noted that historians had a "duty and obligation to accept no statement without documentary evidence". For years, the Canadian government mounted a potent colonial propaganda campaign that was abetted by the churches to cover up wrongdoing. Leading perpetrators in the residential school scandal were exalted in history books while statues of them were erected in prominent places. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples were dehumanised, ensuring that any leaked reports or evidence of wrongdoing would receive little attention. Continue reading... |
| Western Sydney residents feel they are being ‘scapegoated’ as police pledge Covid crackdown Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:14 AM PDT Locals say they're being treated more harshly than those in the eastern suburbs where the outbreak started
Western Sydney residents say they are being "scapegoated" as New South Wales police announced a major compliance crackdown, including mounted officers, and health authorities struggled to contain the city's growing Covid-19 outbreak. The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, on Thursday apologised for singling out three council areas in Sydney's west for apparent breaches of health orders as locals claimed they were being unfairly "branded as the reason the lockdown was extended". Continue reading... |
| Covid surge pushes Indonesia’s health system to the brink Posted: 07 Jul 2021 05:14 PM PDT Shortages of beds, oxygen and staff reported across island of Java as number of cases rise sharply Hospitals across the Indonesian island of Java are running out of oxygen, medicines, beds and even staff as a sharp rise in Covid cases pushes the country's health system to the brink. Indonesia, which is facing one of the worst outbreaks in Asia, announced 34,379 new cases and 1,040 fatalities on Wednesday, both record highs. Continue reading... |
| ‘Tragic’: Justice Elena Kagan’s scorching dissent on Arizona voting restrictions Posted: 08 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT The supreme court's conservative wing considerably weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and Kagan didn't hold back There may have been no supreme court decision this year more important this year than the one in Brnovich v Democratic National Committee. In a 6-3 ruling that broke down along ideological lines, the court's conservative justices upheld two Arizona voting restrictions and considerably weakened section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 civil rights law. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Precarious moment: Vanuatu court to rule on prime minister’s fate Posted: 07 Jul 2021 08:12 PM PDT Verdict on Bob Loughman's parliamentary boycott is uncharted political territory for the Pacific island nation Next week Vanuatu's court of appeal will sit to decide the political fate of the prime minister, Bob Loughman, and 18 other MPs. The supreme court ruled in June that they had vacated their seats after a three-day boycott of parliament by the government side. Even in a country accustomed to political intrigue and surprise, it is a precarious moment. So how did we get here, who are the key players and what might happen next? Continue reading... |
| Age, sex, vaccine dose, chronic illness – insight into risk factors for severe Covid is growing Posted: 07 Jul 2021 11:08 AM PDT A look at the demographics as 18.5 million people in the UK fall into the heightened risk category About 18.5 million individuals, or 24.4% of the UK population, are at increased risk of developing severe Covid because of underlying health conditions. It is well known that older people are at high risk, but the understanding of all the risk factors is incomplete. Experts say that this knowledge needs to develop at speed to support policy and planning given that social restrictions will end in England on 19 July. Continue reading... |
| Large explosion on container ship at Jebel Ali port rocks Dubai – video Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:58 PM PDT A container ship anchored at Dubai's Jebel Ali port caught fire, causing a huge explosion that sent tremors across the United Arab Emirates' commercial hub. The explosion was seen kilometres away and unleashed a shock wave through the city Continue reading... |
| WHO urges countries ‘not to lose gains’ by prematurely lifting Covid restrictions – video Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:43 AM PDT The World Health Organization has urged countries to use extreme caution when easing Covid-19 restrictions to reopen their economies. Dr Michael Ryan, director of the WHO health emergencies programme, said: 'The idea that everyone is protected and it's Kumbaya and everything goes back to normal, I think right now is a very dangerous assumption.' Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added that the pandemic was not over and that the milestone of 4 million reported deaths had just been passed. Their comments came as Boris Johnson set out plans to end social and economic coronavirus restrictions in England on 19 July Continue reading... |
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