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- More than 200 children remain abducted in Nigeria amid ‘kidnap epidemic’
- Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation
- IPCC report shows ‘possible loss of entire countries within the century’
- China court upholds death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg
- Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre sues Prince Andrew
- US says Afghans must defend their country as Taliban takes more ground
- UN climate report raises pressure on Biden to seize a rare moment
- Concern grows in Kenya after alarming rise in suicide cases
- ‘Treacherous’: Kim Jong-un’s sister condemns South Korea-US war games
- Deadly Marburg virus discovered for first time in west Africa
- Parents ‘tortured’ by death of baby after magpie swooped in Brisbane park
- Coronavirus live news: China reports highest cases since January; India reports lowest infections since March
- Support for Japan’s PM reaches all-time low over Covid-19, despite Olympics success
- Covid hospitalizations surge in US south as unvaccinated urged to get shots
- A dog’s inner life: what a robot pet taught me about consciousness
- Shayne Oliver: ‘Being a Black weirdo is harder than being any other kind’
- I almost gave up searching for my first best friend: 25 years on, we found each other
- ‘I still feel it isn’t real’: Gold Rush town residents reckon with wildfire devastation
- Beats Studio Buds review: Apple’s Android-loving noise-cancelling earbuds
- Days of wine and olives: how the old farming ways are paying off in Spain
- Statement of intent: boy raises £640k with 500-night camp out
- Israel’s shadow war with Iran
- Australia live news update: Morrison responds to IPCC report; NSW records 356 Covid cases, Victoria 20 and Qld three
- ‘Our morgues are full’: Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid burials
- Think it’s all over? Why the Covid experts are not so sure about that
- Video captures moment arsonist sets fire to grass in southern Italy – video
- China's wandering elephant herd heads home – video
| More than 200 children remain abducted in Nigeria amid ‘kidnap epidemic’ Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:00 PM PDT Schools in north of country have become prime targets for 'bandits' with 1,000 students taken this year More than 200 schoolchildren remain abducted by armed "bandit" groups in northern Nigeria, among more than 1,000 students taken this year as schools in northern Nigeria have become prime targets. A startling absence of security and – according to many communities – a reluctance to meaningfully engage armed threats have rapidly turned much of northern Nigeria into a haven for kidnap gangs and a hell for thousands of families. Many of the victims are schoolchildren, with several mass kidnappings this year, mirroring and eclipsing the kidnap of almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram in 2014. Continue reading... |
| Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:30 PM PDT Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole. As UN experts on Monday said global warming was advancing faster than feared and that humanity was "unequivocally" to blame, firefighters and local residents battled massive blazes on the island of Evia, east of Athens, for a seventh straight day. Continue reading... |
| IPCC report shows ‘possible loss of entire countries within the century’ Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:30 AM PDT Pacific island nations are already being battered by king tides, catastrophic cyclones and sustained droughts Global heating above 1.5C will be "catastrophic" for Pacific island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level rise within the century, experts have warned. The Pacific has long been seen as the "canary in the coalmine" for the climate crisis, as the region has suffered from king tides, catastrophic cyclones, increasing salinity in water tables making growing crops impossible, sustained droughts, and the loss of low-lying islands to sea level rise. These crises are expected to increase in frequency and severity as the world heats. Continue reading... |
| China court upholds death sentence against Canadian Robert Schellenberg Posted: 09 Aug 2021 08:45 PM PDT Ruling comes as verdict expected in trial of fellow Canadian Michael Spavor A Chinese court has upheld a death sentence against Canadian citizen Robert Schellenberg. Schellenberg has been detained in China since 2014, when he was accused of attempting to smuggle 225kg of methamphetamine to Australia. He has maintained his innocence. In December 2018 he was sentenced to 15 years but after he appealed a retrial was ordered and the Dalian intermediate people's court instead ordered his execution. Continue reading... |
| Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre sues Prince Andrew Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:15 PM PDT Giuffre accuses Andrew of sexual abuse at Epstein's mansion when she was under 18 Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, on Monday filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in federal court in New York. She accused the British royal of sexually abusing her at Epstein's mansion in Manhattan and at other locations in 2001 when she was under the age of 18, according to court records. Prince Andrew has denied having sex with her. Continue reading... |
| US says Afghans must defend their country as Taliban takes more ground Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:56 PM PDT Comments distancing the US from the conflict come as militants capture more cities and violence escalates The US has said it is up to Afghan security forces to defend the country after Taliban militants captured a sixth provincial capital, along with border towns and trade routes. Fighting in Afghanistan's long-running conflict has escalated dramatically since May, when the US-led military coalition began the final stage of a withdrawal set to be completed before the end of the month. Continue reading... |
| UN climate report raises pressure on Biden to seize a rare moment Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT The US president may have only one chance to pass legislation to confront the crisis: 'We can't wait' A stark UN report on how humanity has caused unprecedented, and in some cases "irreversible", changes to the world's climate has heaped further pressure on Joe Biden to deliver upon what may be his sole chance to pass significant legislation to confront the climate crisis and break a decade of American political inertia. The US president said the release on Monday of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed that "we can't wait to tackle the climate crisis. The signs are unmistakable. The science is undeniable. And the cost of inaction keeps mounting." Continue reading... |
| Concern grows in Kenya after alarming rise in suicide cases Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:01 PM PDT Mental ill-health and 'warped' notions of masculinity among reasons mooted for rise of nearly 50% in a year There is growing alarm in Kenya over a shocking rise in the number of suicides in the country. Almost 500 people are reported to have killed themselves in the three months to June this year, more than the whole of 2020, according to the Kenyan police. Continue reading... |
| ‘Treacherous’: Kim Jong-un’s sister condemns South Korea-US war games Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:30 PM PDT Kim Yo-jong, a key adviser to North Korean ruler, interrupts surprise thaw in relations on Korean peninsula The influential sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has called Seoul authorities "treacherous" over the South's joint military exercises with the US, warning the two allies would face greater security threats as a result. Kim Yo-jong's latest remarks come despite a surprise thaw on the Korean peninsula, prompted by a series of personal letters between her brother and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in. Continue reading... |
| Deadly Marburg virus discovered for first time in west Africa Posted: 09 Aug 2021 05:34 PM PDT Ebola-like disease kills man in Guinea as WHO says it is working with local health authorities on swift response to stop spread Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization says. It marks the first time that the deadly disease has been identified in west Africa. Continue reading... |
| Parents ‘tortured’ by death of baby after magpie swooped in Brisbane park Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:41 PM PDT Five-month-old Mia suffered critical injuries after her mother fell while trying to avoid the bird The devastated aunts of a baby who died after her mother tried to protect her from a swooping magpie have described the feelings of torture the parents have been left with. Mia was in her mother's arms when a magpie swooped at them at a Brisbane park on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 01:32 AM PDT China confirms 143 new cases, the highest number since 20 January; India reports 28,204 infections, lowest since 16 March; record hospitalisations in US state of Arkansas
Until now India's vaccination campaign has been tilted towards people in urban areas, who have received more vaccines than in those in rural areas, but the latest figures show that this disparity has been rectified. An average of 60% of doses have been given to the rural population in the past three weeks. In some states such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh the figure was even higher at around 72% and in Kerala the figure was 74%. Around mid-May, only 12.7% of people in the countryside had received one dose as compared with 30.3% of urban residents.
East Timor has recorded its first case of community transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, raising concerns by its health ministry about a possible surge. Genomic sequencing by Australia's Doherty Institute in the first week of August found that of 27 samples taken in the country's Ermera region from people infected with the coronavirus, 12 were of the Delta variant, Reuters reports. The government is very concerned about those cases specifically as the rate of vaccination is very low. That's why the government is reinforcing the vaccine campaign. Continue reading... |
| Support for Japan’s PM reaches all-time low over Covid-19, despite Olympics success Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:21 PM PDT Public support for Yoshihide Suga's cabinet dipped below 30%, despite widespread support for going ahead with the Games Public support for the government of Japan's prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has slumped to an all-time low, despite evidence that most people support the decision to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics during the coronavirus pandemic. Suga had been hoping to bask in the afterglow of the Games, which ended on Sunday, but support for his cabinet has dipped below 30% for the first time since he became prime minister last September, largely over its response to a recent surge in infections. Continue reading... |
| Covid hospitalizations surge in US south as unvaccinated urged to get shots Posted: 09 Aug 2021 08:46 AM PDT
Covid-19 hospitalizations continued to surge among America's deep south states on Monday as health officials urge unvaccinated residents to receive the shot and intensive care units near capacity in multiple locations, prompting fears of a surge close to the numbers of last winter. Louisiana now leads the nation in new Covid cases as the Delta variant rips through a region with some of the lowest vaccination rates in the US. Last Friday, the Louisiana department of health announced a daily increase of 6,116 positive Covid cases, with 2,421 people now hospitalized with the virus, including 277 on ventilators. With just 37% of residents fully vaccinated, state data indicated that unvaccinated people accounted for 90% of hospitalizations in the state. One hundred and eighty one people died from the virus in Louisiana last week. Continue reading... |
| A dog’s inner life: what a robot pet taught me about consciousness Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has 'real emotions and instinct'. This may seem over the top, but is it? In today's AI universe, all the eternal questions have become engineering problems The package arrived on a Thursday. I came home from a walk and found it sitting near the mailboxes in the front hall of my building, a box so large and imposing I was embarrassed to discover my name on the label. It took all my strength to drag it up the stairs. I paused once on the landing, considered abandoning it there, then continued hauling it up to my apartment on the third floor, where I used my keys to cut it open. Inside the box, beneath lavish folds of bubble wrap, was a sleek plastic pod. I opened the clasp: inside, lying prone, was a small white dog. Continue reading... |
| Shayne Oliver: ‘Being a Black weirdo is harder than being any other kind’ Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT He's DJ'd naked, put a great dane on the catwalk – and now with an album, Shayne Oliver is on a mission to bring New York's queer underground to the world. Is the former Hood by Air designer the 21st century Andy Warhol? Interviewing Shayne Oliver is a conversational rollercoaster. We hurtle from cult 90s guitar bands to Arthur Jafa, from the problem with political correctness to the pressure on creatives, from Kanye West to Vin Diesel, with little warning of which thrill or spill is next. "I'm such a scatterbrain," he says at the end of our call. "I'm sorry." But Oliver is far from a scatterbrain. He is best known as a fashion designer, the former vogue-dancer who founded the critically adored label Hood By Air, or HBA, in 2006. However, he is no longer limiting himself to clothes. Oliver is moving into music, having formed Anonymous Club – a "creative studio" focused on young talent that began as a series of parties. The studio's debut release is Screensavers Vol 1, a compilation album based on Oliver's demos, executive produced by Yves Tumor. Continue reading... |
| I almost gave up searching for my first best friend: 25 years on, we found each other Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:30 AM PDT When Gabriella met Natsumi they had no shared language – but that did not stop them from becoming fast friends When my family first landed in Perth at the start of January, it was 40C. The stifling heat was such a contrast to the European winter we had left behind. It's one of the things I remember about migrating to Australia with my mum and step-dad when I was six; that and the extremely long flight leaving Budapest – with stopovers in Helsinki, Karachi and Singapore. Continue reading... |
| ‘I still feel it isn’t real’: Gold Rush town residents reckon with wildfire devastation Posted: 10 Aug 2021 01:00 AM PDT As flames approached, Kimberly Price fled her beloved California hometown of Greenville. An hour later, most of it was gone After weeks of fire, smoke and warnings, Kimberly Price and her beloved town had run out of time. With wind driving the Dixie fire directly into Greenville, Price's longtime partner, John Hunter, told her she needed to leave. Price, 58, had spent most of her life in the close-knit Sierra Nevada community. She couldn't bear the thought of leaving, but the flames were everywhere. Continue reading... |
| Beats Studio Buds review: Apple’s Android-loving noise-cancelling earbuds Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT Buds have good sound, battery life, compact shape without stalks and work with Android or iPhones The latest Apple Bluetooth earbuds from its Beats brand offer active noise-cancelling and cross-compatibility that goes beyond its competitors – even for Android users. The Studio Buds cost £129.99 ($149.99 or A$199.95) and are Beats' smallest earbuds to date, following on from the sport-oriented PowerBeats Pro and budget Beats Flex. Continue reading... |
| Days of wine and olives: how the old farming ways are paying off in Spain Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:30 PM PDT The 'no-plough' regenerative methods adopted in small vineyards have spread to olive groves and leading wine producers – boosting biodiversity and profits They call it the sea of olives, 70 million olive trees that stretch to the horizon in every direction in the province of Jaén in southern Spain. It's a spectacular landscape and yet, olives aside, the land is virtually dead, with scarcely a flower, bird or butterfly to be seen. All this could be about to change following the remarkable success of a project that is raising new life from the dust of AndalucÃa. Continue reading... |
| Statement of intent: boy raises £640k with 500-night camp out Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Max Woosey, 11, hoped to secure £100 for a Devon hospice but his charity pitch became a marathon Max Woosey has woken up in his tent in the depths of winter, teeth chattering, his sleeping bag and blankets coated with frost. The 11-year-old was almost tempted indoors one night when his tent blew down in a storm but he repitched and carried on. This summer there have been some uncomfortably hot, sticky nights, especially after the family labradoodle, Digby, took to snuggling in with Max and licking his face at all hours. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:00 PM PDT A spate of attacks on one of the world's busiest shipping trade routes is part of an escalating tit-for-tat conflict playing out between Iran and Israel, says Martin Chulov, the Guardian's Middle East correspondent In the last week of July, an oil tanker managed by an Israeli company was making a routine journey from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates when it was hit by an explosive, believed to be a drone. Two men, a Romanian and a British national, were killed in the attack. The Israeli government immediately blamed Iran who has denied any part in it. The Guardian's Middle East correspondent, Martin Chulov, tells Nosheen Iqbal that it is the latest action in what is now a rapidly escalating 'shadow war' between Israel and Iran. With both countries under new leadership in recent weeks, there is an added layer of unpredictability to relations that have been tense for some time. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 01:41 AM PDT NSW records 356 new Covid cases as virus spreads across the state; Queensland records three new cases; Victoria records 20 new cases. Follow the latest updates live
That's where we will leave the live blog for Tuesday. If you haven't been one of the millions to fill out your census already, tonight is the night.
The former prime ministers Malcom Turnbull and Kevin Rudd are addressing a La Trobe Asia webinar focused on Australia's relationship with China. The discussion has turned to climate action, a day after the IPCC report on the threat the climate emergency poses. The proposition that we should all down tools until China does more is very naive. We're not. So that's a huge, huge problem. Continue reading... |
| ‘Our morgues are full’: Zimbabwe struggles with surge in Covid burials Posted: 09 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Pressure on undertakers leads to widespread delays after record number of coronavirus infections and deaths last month A group of women sing hymns at the cemetery in Harare as undertakers, dressed in Covid-19 protective gear, gently lower a white casket into the grave. "This world is not our home," they sing, as relatives, standing a few metres away, mourn their loss. Continue reading... |
| Think it’s all over? Why the Covid experts are not so sure about that Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:33 AM PDT Analysis: the end of restrictions in the UK has not led to a surge in cases, but coronavirus remains unpredictable They are questions lurking in many people's minds: just how upbeat or pessimistic should we be about the pandemic now? How does the UK compare with other countries? And is the worst of the crisis really over? Two weeks after "freedom day" in England and with case numbers across the UK remaining lower than some modellers had feared, the worst seems to have eased. Future lockdowns, according to experts, seem unlikely unless new variants emerge. Continue reading... |
| Video captures moment arsonist sets fire to grass in southern Italy – video Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:07 PM PDT A video has been released by the Italian carabinieri military police showing a hidden camera capturing an arsonist starting a fire in the countryside. The video released on 6 August showed a person light a match and place it on the grass before running away near Montesarchio, a town 31 miles (49km) from Naples in Italy. The man was arrested. In Italy, the civil protection authority warned on Monday of more fires to come as temperatures in parts of the country reach 45C. Continue reading... |
| China's wandering elephant herd heads home – video Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:31 AM PDT A famous elephant herd wandering in south-west China is finally heading towards home. The herd of 14 wild Asian elephants crossed the Yuanjiang River in Yuxi City, Yunnan province, on Sunday night, a progress that the provincial government described as significant. As of Sunday night, the herd was still in Yuanjiang County, about 200km away from their original habitat in south-west Yunnan's Xishuangbanna. The elephants attracted worldwide attention after they left the reserve in Yunnan province last year and walked more than 500km north. They reached the outskirts of Kunming, a major city, in early June, before turning south again. Continue reading... |
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