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- Priti Patel faces three legal challenges over refugee pushback plans
- ‘Un grand monsieur’: Lula challenge to Bolsonaro finds welcome in Europe
- Dozens trapped underground in Siberia after fatal coalmine fire
- Apple tells Thai activists they are targets of ‘state-sponsored attackers’
- HMRC to relocate to Newcastle office owned by Tory donors via tax haven
- Interpol appoints Emirati general accused of torture as president
- Spanish police recover rare 2,000-year-old Iberian sword
- Turkey accused of using Interpol summit to crack down on critics
- EU moves to place Covid booster jabs at heart of travel rules
- Covid live: France announces boosters for all adults and stricter mask rules; EU approves Pfizer jab for children aged five to 11
- What is driving Europe's surge in Covid cases? – video explainer
- No apparent disruption from Biden’s federal vaccine mandate, says White House
- The everyday assault of disabled women: ‘It’s inappropriate sexual touching at least once a month’
- All options fraught with risk as Biden confronts Putin over Ukraine
- Matteo Salvini: ‘I refuse to think of substituting 10m Italians with 10m migrants’
- ‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
- The Canadian town of Tiny has the world’s purest water. A gravel mining operation could ruin it
- Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’
- Eighties pop star Debbie Gibson: ‘The price of fame is high. I have a therapist on speed dial!’
- Priti Patel says it is up to France to stop refugees crossing Channel
- Childhood best friends reunited 82 years after Nazi terror split them apart
- Morrison accuses critics of wanting ‘kangaroo court’ as Liberal MP crosses floor over integrity bill
- Return to the refugee camp: Malawi orders thousands back to ‘congested’ Dzaleka
- Justice prevailed in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers. In America, that’s a shock
- From environment to economy: what to expect from new German government
| Priti Patel faces three legal challenges over refugee pushback plans Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:10 AM PST Charities say home secretary's policy for small boats in Channel is unlawful under rights and maritime laws Priti Patel is facing three legal challenges over her controversial plans to push back refugees on small boats in the Channel who are trying to reach the UK. Several charities including Care4Calais and Channel Rescue are involved in two linked challenges arguing that Patel's plans are unlawful under human rights and maritime laws. Freedom from Torture is involved in a third challenge. Continue reading... |
| ‘Un grand monsieur’: Lula challenge to Bolsonaro finds welcome in Europe Posted: 25 Nov 2021 02:15 AM PST Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gets a fist bump from Olaf Scholz and an invitation to the presidential palace from Macron It was a welcome fit for a president. Republican Guards at the Élysée Palace. A standing ovation at the European Parliament. A front-page interview in Spain's top newspaper in which the visiting dignitary was hailed as a "cyclone" of energy. Continue reading... |
| Dozens trapped underground in Siberia after fatal coalmine fire Posted: 25 Nov 2021 05:32 AM PST Rescue operation halted amid fears of explosion, after fire in ventilation shaft kills at least 11 people At least 11 miners died in a coal mining accident in Siberia, Russia, on Thursday and an operation to rescue dozens more people stuck underground has been suspended due to the risk of an explosion, the region's governor has said. Coal dust caught fire in a ventilation shaft in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the snowbound Kemerovo region early on Thursday, filling the mine with smoke, the TASS news agency cited local emergency services as saying. Continue reading... |
| Apple tells Thai activists they are targets of ‘state-sponsored attackers’ Posted: 25 Nov 2021 05:42 AM PST At least 17 people including protest leaders have received alerts about devices possibly being compromised Thai activists who have called for reform of the monarchy are among at least 17 people in Thailand who say they have been warned by Apple that they have been targeted by "state-sponsored" attackers. Warnings were sent to the prominent activists Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul and Anon Nampa, according to Panusaya's sister May and the administrator of Anon's Facebook page. Panusaya and Anon are in pre-trial detention after leading demonstrations calling for the power of the monarchy to be curbed. Continue reading... |
| HMRC to relocate to Newcastle office owned by Tory donors via tax haven Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:11 AM PST Exclusive: Deal is part of north-east regeneration scheme developed by property tycoons David and Simon Reuben HM Revenue and Customs has struck a deal to relocate tax officials into a new office complex in Newcastle owned by major Conservative party donors through an offshore company based in a tax haven, the Guardian can reveal. The department's planned new home in the north-east of England is part of a regeneration scheme developed by a British Virgin Islands (BVI) entity controlled by the billionaire property tycoons David and Simon Reuben. Continue reading... |
| Interpol appoints Emirati general accused of torture as president Posted: 25 Nov 2021 04:02 AM PST Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi of United Arab Emirates elected despite concerns of human rights groups and MEPs An Emirati general accused of torture has been elected president of Interpol, despite the concerns of human rights organisations and members of the European parliament who fear the global police agency will be at risk of exploitation by repressive regimes. The appointment follows generous funding by the United Arab Emirates for Interpol, which is based in Lyon, France, and accusations Abu Dhabi has abused its system of "red notices" for wanted suspects to persecute political dissidents. Continue reading... |
| Spanish police recover rare 2,000-year-old Iberian sword Posted: 25 Nov 2021 04:26 AM PST Double-edged, curved falcata particularly sought after because of the original condition of its blade More than 2,000 years after it was last wielded by a warrior somewhere on the Iberian peninsula, a rare, magnificent – and plundered – sword has been recovered by Spanish police, who tracked it down before it was sold online. The pre-Roman falcata, a double-edged, curved sword used by the Iberians between the fifth and first centuries BC, was seized along with 202 other archaeological pieces after it appeared on what Policía Nacional officers termed "a well known social media site". Continue reading... |
| Turkey accused of using Interpol summit to crack down on critics Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:09 AM PST Campaigners claim Ankara is abusing its position as host, by pressuring the police body to harass dissidents living abroad Human rights activists have accused Turkey of using its role as host of Interpol's general assembly to push for a crackdown on critics and political opponents who have fled the country. The alert came after the Turkish interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, said his government would use the three-day event in Istanbul to persuade the international criminal police organisation's officials and delegates to find, arrest and extradite Turkish dissident citizens – particularly those it labels terrorists – abroad. Continue reading... |
| EU moves to place Covid booster jabs at heart of travel rules Posted: 25 Nov 2021 05:47 AM PST Commission says unrestricted travel between states should apply to those who get booster 9 months after jabs People living in the European Union who want to travel around the bloc without being tested or going into quarantine should get a Covid booster jab nine months after their original vaccination, the European Commission has proposed. The EU's executive body said there should be a standard nine-month acceptance period for vaccines across the bloc, in an attempt to do away with a confusing mix of rules across the 27 member states. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Nov 2021 06:59 AM PST French health minister holds press conference to announce new measures; EU regulator approves vaccine for younger children
Alberto Nardelli (formerly of this parish) and John Follain have a story leading the Bloomberg site at the moment, claiming that the EU is to propose a nine-month limit on Covid vaccine validity for travel. They write: The European Union will recommend a nine-month time limit for the validity of Covid-19 vaccinations for travel into the bloc and also propose prioritising vaccinated travellers. The European Commission will propose that member states should continue welcoming all travelers inoculated with shots approved by the bloc, according to a document seen by Bloomberg. It also calls for countries to reopen as of 10 January to all those who have used vaccines approved by the World Health Organization. Continue reading... |
| What is driving Europe's surge in Covid cases? – video explainer Posted: 25 Nov 2021 04:50 AM PST The continent is now the centre of the global coronavirus pandemic – again. As countries from the Baltic to the Med brace for harsher winter measures, the Guardian's Jon Henley looks at the reasons behind the fourth wave
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| No apparent disruption from Biden’s federal vaccine mandate, says White House Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST One day after the deadline for compliance, 92% of workers covered by the mandate reported they were at least partially vaccinated The Biden administration's vaccine mandate for millions of federal workers seems to be working, with no apparent disruption to law enforcement, intelligence-gathering or holiday travel. One day after the deadline for compliance, 92% of the 3.5 million federal workers covered by Biden's mandate on Tuesday reported to the government that they were at least partially vaccinated, according to White House officials. Continue reading... |
| The everyday assault of disabled women: ‘It’s inappropriate sexual touching at least once a month’ Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST They are almost twice as likely to be sexually assaulted as non-disabled women. Why is so little being done to address this harrowing, pervasive problem? Amy Kavanagh is as happy as anyone else that the world is opening up – but there is one thing she is not thrilled to be experiencing again. "As much as I'm excited to be getting out and socialising again, it comes at a cost," she says. Kavanagh is blind and sexual harassment is as frequent in her everyday life as it is disturbing. "I get harassed in public, on the street, in shops, on public transport, in cabs and even in professional environments. Pre-pandemic, I experienced inappropriate sexual touching at least once a month," she says. While there has been a renewed focus on women's safety since the deaths of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa, little attention has been paid to the harassment and violence faced by disabled women. Yet women with a disability are almost twice as likely to have experienced sexual assault (5%) as women without a disability (2.8%), according to ONS data for the two years to March 2020. This is not an anomaly; in the previous three years, the figure was 5.7%. In 2021, a survey of more than 1,000 disabled women carried out by the Trades Union Congress found that 68% had experienced sexual harassment at work. The figures constitute a hidden blight on disabled women's lives. Continue reading... |
| All options fraught with risk as Biden confronts Putin over Ukraine Posted: 25 Nov 2021 02:31 AM PST Analysis: Moscow presents Washington with a no-win situation: capitulate on Ukrainian sovereignty or risk all-out war Joe Biden is preparing for a virtual summit with Vladimir Putin with the aim of fending off the threat of another Russian invasion of Ukraine. The summit has been previewed by the Kremlin. The White House has not confirmed it, but a spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said that "high-level diplomacy is a priority of the president" and pointed to the teleconference meeting with Xi Jinping earlier in November. Continue reading... |
| Matteo Salvini: ‘I refuse to think of substituting 10m Italians with 10m migrants’ Posted: 25 Nov 2021 04:37 AM PST Exclusive: Far-right politician is in campaign mode and says he has no regrets about draconian policies he introduced when he was interior minister Whether they're camped outside in freezing temperatures or stranded at sea, Matteo Salvini exhibits little sympathy for the asylum seekers blocked at European borders. The Italian far-right leader, who as interior minister attempted to stop NGO rescue boats landing in Italian ports, in one case leading to criminal charges, will travel to Warsaw next month in a show of solidarity with his Polish allies who have deployed hardcore tactics to ward off thousands of refugees trying to enter from Belarus. "I think that Europe is realising that illegal immigration is dangerous," Salvini told the Guardian in an interview conducted before 27 people drowned attempting to cross the Channel in an inflatable boat. "So maybe this shock will be useful." Continue reading... |
| ‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry Posted: 25 Nov 2021 06:03 AM PST Chinese companies dominate mining, battery and manufacturing sectors, and amid human rights concerns, Europe and the US are struggling to keep pace Think of an electric car and the first name that comes to mind will probably be Tesla. The California company makes the world's bestselling electric car and was recently valued at $1tn. But behind this US success story is a tale of China's manufacturing might. Tesla's factory in Shanghai now produces more cars than its plant in California. Some of the batteries that drive them are Chinese-made and the minerals that power the batteries are largely refined and mined by Chinese companies. Continue reading... |
| The Canadian town of Tiny has the world’s purest water. A gravel mining operation could ruin it Posted: 25 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST The people of Tiny and neighboring First Nations are fighting the expansion of the quarry pits to keep their water pristine Some of cleanest water in the world fell to the ground about 70 years ago, passing through smoggy skies that stuffed the droplets full of ash, soot, vehicle exhaust, chemicals and heavy metals. It percolated through gravel, glacial silt and permeable rock and eventually gushed from a hose and into a pitcher held by Bonnie Pauzé. Continue reading... |
| Stellan Skarsgård: ‘My tips for fatherhood? Don’t lie. Even about Santa Claus’ Posted: 25 Nov 2021 05:11 AM PST The Swedish actor best known for his collaborations with Lars von Trier – as well as Marvel movies, Pirates of the Caribbean and Mamma Mia! – answers your questions about Lars von Trier, porn and pickled herrings Are you ever frustrated with having to wear clothes when you're working? Do you feel you're better at your job if you're able to be naked? KayBee123 I usually take off my clothes when I get home but I have no special ambition to be naked on screen. And I'm getting fewer and fewer offers. I don't know what that means. Continue reading... |
| Eighties pop star Debbie Gibson: ‘The price of fame is high. I have a therapist on speed dial!’ Posted: 25 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST Squeaky clean, uncool and old before her years, the US singer blazed a trail for young women creating their own material. Having dealt with stalkers, addiction and illness, she's back Thirty-three years ago – in musical terms, an epoch – Debbie Gibson was the most famous American teen pop star on Earth. At 17 she was as loved by teenagers as Billie Eilish was at 17, in polar opposite ways. Gibson, uncool and critically dismissed, was the wholesome, toothsome innocent who sang upbeat, unapologetically weedy songs about adolescent love. Eilish, peerlessly cool and critically sacred, remains a sad-eyed cynic singing unapologetically disturbing songs about death, sex and generational neuroses. If popular culture is unrecognisable from 1988, as it should be, one aspect remains identical: the constant judgment of female public figures over their physicality, as Eilish always is and Gibson still is, harangued on social media for being "too thin" since her 2013 Lyme disease diagnosis. "I hope Billie is handling all the pressure as beautifully as she appears to be handling it," ponders Gibson today. "She seems a wise old soul. Everyone changes, you lose weight, gain weight, dye your hair, change your aesthetic … life just happens. But with social media, there's unsolicited feedback coming from everywhere. You need a backbone of steel, like the Kardashians. Young minds are not wired to process that. The price of fame these days is definitely high. Look, even I have a therapist on speed dial!" Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel says it is up to France to stop refugees crossing Channel Posted: 25 Nov 2021 06:53 AM PST Home secretary reiterates offer to send more police to France after 27 people drown trying to reach UK It is up to France to stop refugees crossing the Channel in small boats, Priti Patel has said after 27 people, mostly Kurds from Iraq or Iran, drowned trying to reach the UK in an inflatable boat. Making a statement to MPs, the home secretary said that while there was no rapid solution to the issue of people seeking to make the crossing, she had reiterated a UK offer to send more police to France. Continue reading... |
| Childhood best friends reunited 82 years after Nazi terror split them apart Posted: 25 Nov 2021 06:56 AM PST Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff, whose families fled Vienna in 1939, each feared the other had died in the Holocaust Childhood best friends Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German schoolyard in May 1939. Now the school pals, who were separated aged just nine when their Jewish families were forced to flee the Nazis, have hugged each other in person once again after spending more than eight decades fearing the other had died in the Holocaust. Continue reading... |
| Morrison accuses critics of wanting ‘kangaroo court’ as Liberal MP crosses floor over integrity bill Posted: 25 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST PM says Gladys Berejiklian was 'done over' by NSW Icac but Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer says government needs to act The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has accused critics of wanting a "kangaroo court" to oversee federal parliament after he faced an internal revolt over the Coalition's failure to establish a commonwealth integrity commission. On Thursday morning, the Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor to support independent MP Helen Haines' push to establish a federal integrity commission. Archer had told Guardian Australia she was frustrated with the government's "inertia" on the issue. Continue reading... |
| Return to the refugee camp: Malawi orders thousands back to ‘congested’ Dzaleka Posted: 24 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST People who've integrated into society are expected to return to the country's oldest refugee camp, as cost of living and anti-refugee sentiment rises Dzaleka, Malawi's first refugee camp, is about 25 miles north of the capital Lilongwe. Built 25 years ago in response to a surge of people fleeing genocide and wars in Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it was then home to between 10,000 and 14,000 refugees. But the camp now houses more than 48,000 people from east and southern African countries – four times more than its initial capacity. Several hundred continue to arrive each month, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), and in August 181 babies were born there. The deteriorating situation in neighbouring Mozambique is swelling the numbers further, as is the government's recent decree that an estimated 2,000 refugees who had over the years left Dzaleka to integrate into wider Malawian society should go back, citing them as a possible danger to national security. Continue reading... |
| Justice prevailed in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers. In America, that’s a shock Posted: 25 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST The jury reached the right verdict – even as the criminal justice system did everything it could to exonerate the three men It's shocking that Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia. Yet the shock doesn't stem out of any miscarriage of justice. On the contrary, the jury in Glynn county deliberated and reached the correct decision. Stalking an innocent Black man, chasing him, cornering him, and then killing him must come with criminal consequences in this country, and each of the three murderers now faces the possibility of a life sentence. But the shock is that justice was served in a case where it seemed the criminal justice system and substantial portions of media coverage were doing all they could to exonerate these men. In fact, everything about this case illustrates how difficult it is to get justice for Black people in this country, starting with how often Fox News and other media outlets referred to the case as "the Arbery trial", as if Ahmaud Arbery were the perpetrator here and not the victim. Continue reading... |
| From environment to economy: what to expect from new German government Posted: 24 Nov 2021 11:21 AM PST Analysis: coalition wants Germany to remain Europe's 'anchor of stability' but there will be some changes Led by a party that has acted as Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner for 12 of the last 16 years, and two parties with an energy to do things differently, Germany's next government represents an odd mix of status quo thinking and reformist instincts. The coalition agreement presented by the Social Democratic party (SPD), the Greens and the Free Democratic party (FDP) on Wednesday gives a hint of how German could change – and how it could stay the same. Continue reading... |
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