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- Police treated us like criminals, say families of girls trafficked to Islamic State in Syria
- WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads
- Michigan shooting: suspect’s parents held on $1m bond after capture
- Biden and Putin to hold call amid tensions over Ukraine – White House
- ‘The right is back’: Gaullists pick female candidate Valérie Pécresse to take on Macron
- Nevada man arrested for allegedly assaulting police at US Capitol attack
- Kenya: more than 20 drown as bus is swept away in flooded river
- Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for helping brother Andrew fight sexual misconduct charges
- Johnson faces trust crisis as sleaze shatters faith in MPs
- Cream-cheesed off: bagel-loving New Yorkers face supply chain nightmare
- Covid news: pre-departure tests return for UK arrivals and Nigeria added to red list
- International arrivals to UK will need to take pre-departure Covid test
- A city divided: as Sydney comes back to life, scars of lockdown linger in the west
- New York Omicron cases rise to eight as official warns of community spread
- Micah Richards: ‘There was such a buzz around the Euros. I loved every minute’
- Sweet dreams are made of this: why dream analysis is flourishing
- Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
- A cocktail party from hell: in court with Ghislaine Maxwell, the society princess
- Bookseller Samir Mansour: ‘It was shocking to realise I was a target’
- Louis Theroux: ‘I’ve always found anxiety in the most unlikely places’
- How the murder of a Swedish rapper shocked a nation and put police on the back foot
- Home Office borders bill could ‘create a British Guantánamo Bay,’ says Tory MP
- Iran walks back all prior concessions in nuclear talks, US official says
- The Last Matinee review – carnage in the aisles in cinema-set giallo-style slasher
- Australia live news updates: Pfizer provisionally approved for five to 11-year-olds; Victoria records 980 new Covid cases and seven deaths
- Lives lost at Europe’s borders and Afghan MPs in exile: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- Omicron proves we’re not in control of Covid – only global action can stop this pandemic
- Indonesian Semeru volcano spews huge ash cloud – video
- Omicron Covid variant: too soon to say illness severity – video
| Police treated us like criminals, say families of girls trafficked to Islamic State in Syria Posted: 04 Dec 2021 05:00 AM PST British authorities accused of interrogating parents who came seeking help when their daughters went missing Details of how police attempted to criminalise British families whose children were trafficked to Islamic State (IS) in Syria are revealed in a series of testimonies that show how grieving relatives were initially treated as suspects and then abandoned by the authorities. One described being "treated like a criminal" and later realising that police were only interested in acquiring intelligence on IS instead of trying to help find their loved one. Another told how their home had been raided after they approached police for help to track down a missing relative. Continue reading... |
| WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads Posted: 03 Dec 2021 09:22 PM PST US and Australia become latest countries to confirm locally transmitted cases
The Omicron variant has been detected in at least 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the World Health Organization has said, amid warnings that it could damage the global economic recovery. The United States and Australia became the latest countries to confirm locally transmitted cases of the variant, as Omicron infections pushed South Africa's total cases past 3 million. Continue reading... |
| Michigan shooting: suspect’s parents held on $1m bond after capture Posted: 04 Dec 2021 01:46 PM PST James and Jennifer Crumbley, who face manslaughter charges, entered not guilty pleas after being found hiding in a warehouse The parents of Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at his high school this week, "could have stopped" the shooting, prosecutors alleged at the parents' arraignment on Saturday, before the judge set a combined $1m bond. In a Zoom hearing, James and Jennifer Crumbley entered not guilty pleas to each of four counts of involuntary manslaughter. Continue reading... |
| Biden and Putin to hold call amid tensions over Ukraine – White House Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:20 PM PST
The White House said on Saturday Joe Biden would hold a call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, to underline US concerns about Russia's buildup of forces on the border with Ukraine. Diplomats indicated earlier this week that Biden and Putin would talk. Continue reading... |
| ‘The right is back’: Gaullists pick female candidate Valérie Pécresse to take on Macron Posted: 04 Dec 2021 09:16 AM PST Former minister is surprise winner of Les Républicains' nomination, beating high-profile names such as Michel Barnier France's rightwing opposition party has chosen a female candidate for next year's presidential election for the first time in its history. Valérie Pécresse emerged victorious after two rounds of voting by members of Les Républicains that unexpectedly saw favourites including "Monsieur Brexit" Michel Barnier knocked out in the first vote last week. Continue reading... |
| Nevada man arrested for allegedly assaulting police at US Capitol attack Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:43 AM PST
A 34-year-old Nevada man has been arrested and held on multiple charges related to the 6 January riot at the US Capitol, including assaulting law officers with what prosecutors say appeared to be a table leg with a protruding nail. A US magistrate in Reno on Friday ordered Josiah Kenyon of Winnemucca to remain jailed without bail, until he is transported to Washington to face charges. Continue reading... |
| Kenya: more than 20 drown as bus is swept away in flooded river Posted: 04 Dec 2021 08:59 AM PST Vehicle travelling to wedding keels over and sinks in fast-flowing waters in Kitui County More than 20 people drowned on Saturday when a bus travelling to a wedding in Kenya was swept away by fast-flowing waters as it tried to cross a flooded river. Onlookers screamed as the yellow school bus hired to take a church choir and other revellers to the ceremony in Kitui County keeled over and sank as the driver tried to navigate the surging waters. Continue reading... |
| Chris Cuomo fired by CNN for helping brother Andrew fight sexual misconduct charges Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:43 PM PST
CNN has fired the primetime anchor Chris Cuomo for trying to help his brother, the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, fight accusations of sexual misconduct which resulted in his resignation. Announcing the firing on Saturday, CNN said "additional information" had come to light. Continue reading... |
| Johnson faces trust crisis as sleaze shatters faith in MPs Posted: 04 Dec 2021 01:00 PM PST Poll reveals huge public cynicism, with just 5% of respondents believing politicians work for public good Trust in politicians to act in the national interest rather than for themselves has fallen dramatically since Boris Johnson became prime minister, according to figures contained in a disturbing new study into the state of British democracy. The polling data from YouGov for the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) shows a particularly sharp fall in trust in the few weeks since the Owen Paterson scandal triggered a rash of Tory sleaze scandals. Continue reading... |
| Cream-cheesed off: bagel-loving New Yorkers face supply chain nightmare Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:32 AM PST Shop owners tell New York Times of worries over dwindling supplies of the popular breakfast comestible One of the biggest businesses in New York City has developed a worrying hole: bagels. According to the New York Times, bagel shop owners are facing a shortage of cream cheese, a culinary calamity that could upend how tens of thousands New Yorkers begin their day. Continue reading... |
| Covid news: pre-departure tests return for UK arrivals and Nigeria added to red list Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:33 PM PST Health secretary Sajid Javid confirms rules will come into force from 7 December in bid to tackle Omicron variant
UK government officials and scientific advisers believe that the danger posed by the Omicron variant may not be clear until January, potentially allowing weeks of intense mixing while the variant spreads. Across Westminster, invitations to Christmas drinks are landing in embossed envelopes or on WhatsApp groups. Departmental staff parties are set to take place, as well as a reception for journalists with Rishi Sunak at No 11. Even Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are hosting a joint bash. Continue reading... |
| International arrivals to UK will need to take pre-departure Covid test Posted: 04 Dec 2021 11:52 AM PST Health secretary announces change to travel rules in bid to control spread of the new Omicron variant All international arrivals to the UK will be required to take a pre-departure Covid-19 test to tackle the new Omicron variant, the health secretary has announced. Sajid Javid said that tightened requirements will come into force from 4am on Tuesday 7 December. Travellers will need to submit evidence of a negative lateral flow or PCR test to enter, which must have been taken a maximum of 48 hours before the departure time. People currently only need to self-isolate until they test negative within two days of arrival. Continue reading... |
| A city divided: as Sydney comes back to life, scars of lockdown linger in the west Posted: 04 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST In the suburbs hardest hit by Covid restrictions, the economic and psychological recovery has been slow to come Sydney barista Minh Bui rarely used to have time to sit down at her own cafe, but this weekday morning she's in no rush. It's just her and two women seated in the corner. Asked how business is at her Liverpool cafe since Sydney's lockdown lifted, Bui motions to the empty seats around her. Continue reading... |
| New York Omicron cases rise to eight as official warns of community spread Posted: 04 Dec 2021 12:52 PM PST Cases of latest Covid variant appear unrelated as state dispatches national guard to help beleaguered hospitals New York announced three more cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the number of state cases linked to the new variant to eight. "The Omicron variant is here, and as anticipated we are seeing the beginning of community spread," the state health commissioner, Mary Bassett, said. Continue reading... |
| Micah Richards: ‘There was such a buzz around the Euros. I loved every minute’ Posted: 04 Dec 2021 08:00 AM PST The footballer turned pundit who won viewers' hearts at the Euros on racism, singing Usher on screen and the real Roy Keane Birmingham-born, Leeds-raised Micah Richards, 33, signed for Manchester City aged 14, made his first-team debut at 17 and captained the side at 19. He won the Premier League, the FA Cup, the League Cup and was the youngest defender ever called up to the England squad, going on to earn 13 international caps. He also played for Aston Villa and Fiorentina. After early retirement at the age of 31 due to knee injuries, he became a football pundit. He covered this summer's Euros for the BBC, where his warm exuberance in the studio and on social media made Richards the standout pundit. Did the Euros make 2021 a vintage year for you? |
| Sweet dreams are made of this: why dream analysis is flourishing Posted: 04 Dec 2021 09:00 AM PST Are dreams a message from the soul or meaningless 'brain farts'? Groups dedicated to interpretation are thriving Jason DeBord regrets the demise of an old parlour game once much-loved in the 19th century: What Did I Eat Last Night? It involved a player recounting their dreams – recorded in a journal upon waking – as an audience was challenged to guess what dream-provoking food they had consumed for the previous night's supper, be it stilton, rarebit or undercooked or cured meats (all understood to be culprits when it came to colourful dreaming). "Maybe you had eaten rare beef and then you dream about cows, you know, chasing you," explains DeBord. "It sounds like a blast, doesn't it? I'd have loved to have played that game." Continue reading... |
| Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:05 AM PST Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says he fears the world is sliding towards fascism The last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossietzky – had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany. "And he couldn't pick it up because he was languishing in a Nazi concentration camp," says Maria Ressa over a video call from Manila. Nearly a century on, Ressa is one of two journalists who will step onto the Nobel stage in Oslo next Friday. She is currently facing jail for "cyberlibel" in the Philippines while the other recipient Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, is standing guard over one of the last independent newspapers in an increasingly dictatorial Russia. Continue reading... |
| A cocktail party from hell: in court with Ghislaine Maxwell, the society princess Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:10 AM PST Week one of the much anticipated New York trial of Jeffrey Epstein's ex-lover saw her big-money defence lawyers trying to outmuscle an underpowered prosecution. The lady in the white mask is quite the gracious host, mwah-mwahing her pals, hugs-a-go-go, writing thoughtful little Post-it notes, blessing her set with her exclusive attention. Only this is not a gathering of socialites over canapés, but a child sexual abuse trial, and her friends are fancy lawyers, and the people who once served and allegedly serviced her and her ex-lover Jeffrey Epstein, body and soul, seem to be in no mood for mwah-mwah. Welcome to the cocktail party from hell, or to give the proceedings their proper name, the trial of the United States of America v Ghislaine Maxwell. Staged in the grand US federal court building in a half-empty Manhattan, it is a grimly fascinating study, if you side with the defence, in false memory syndrome and gold-digging. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bookseller Samir Mansour: ‘It was shocking to realise I was a target’ Posted: 04 Dec 2021 11:00 AM PST The Palestinian bookseller whose shop was destroyed in the most recent conflict in Gaza on how it has been crowdfunded back into existence – three times bigger Bookseller Samir Mansour did not get much sleep the night in May this year that changed his life: he had stayed awake watching the news for updates as Israeli bombs fell on Gaza City. Around 6am, the Al Jazeera anchor said that the busy downtown street home to Mansour's business was under attack. His instinct was to rush to the area in an effort to save his collection. Instead, he arrived just in time to see two missiles smash through the glass storefront as the building collapsed. Continue reading... |
| Louis Theroux: ‘I’ve always found anxiety in the most unlikely places’ Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:00 AM PST The broadcaster, 51, talks about his first memories, last meal, lockdown resets and his brainier older brother I always felt like the second fiddle to my older brother Marcel, who I thought was impossibly brilliant and mature and seemed to be reading more or less from the womb, although I'm two years younger, so I wouldn't have known that first-hand. I was the sideshow: the funny one, the ridiculous one my grandparents said was "good with my hands", which at five or six I embraced. It was only as I got older I realised it meant, "might not want to stay in school past 14 or 15". From childhood I've always found anxiety in the most unlikely places. Aged six I remember watching maypole dancers skipping around and braiding these ribbons into beautiful patterns at my south London primary school and even though I was still in the infants and wouldn't be doing it for years, I thought, "I'm never going to be able to fucking dance around a maypole." All through my life I've tended to experience future events in a negative way. It's always been a source of looming discomfiture. Continue reading... |
| How the murder of a Swedish rapper shocked a nation and put police on the back foot Posted: 04 Dec 2021 08:15 AM PST Ultraviolent gangs are threatening to subvert the rule of law in Sweden. We head out with police in a Gothenburg suburb to find out what it could mean for the rest of Europe and the UK They began heading for the shopping mall exit when they saw the police. One of the four gang members, a local rapper called Lelo whose music videos venerate handguns and violence, turned to exchange pleasantries with Mike, an officer with the Swedish police. Lelo and Mike have history. During a recent riot outside the mall that prompted a killing that could easily have led to another six, Lelo was among 32 arrested. In his subsequent court appearance, Mike had to intervene as Lelo's posturing threatened to boil over. Continue reading... |
| Home Office borders bill could ‘create a British Guantánamo Bay,’ says Tory MP Posted: 04 Dec 2021 01:00 PM PST Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel's plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention camp A former Conservative cabinet minister has warned that the Home Office's controversial borders bill risks creating a "British Guantanamo Bay,". David Davis, who served as Brexit secretary from 2016 to 2018, said that the home secretary's plans to send asylum seekers to another country while their claims are processed may create a facility as notorious as the US detention camp in Cuba. Guantanamo Bay has been described as a "stain on the human rights record" of the US and the "gulag of our times" with detainees making repeated allegations of torture, sexual degradation and religious persecution. Continue reading... |
| Iran walks back all prior concessions in nuclear talks, US official says Posted: 04 Dec 2021 11:26 AM PST
Iran walked back all compromises made in previous talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, pocketed compromises made by others and asked for more in its latest proposals, a senior US state department official told reporters on Saturday. Iran continues to accelerate its nuclear program in pretty provocative ways and China and Russia were taken aback at how far Iran had walked back its proposals in talks in Vienna, the official told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Continue reading... |
| The Last Matinee review – carnage in the aisles in cinema-set giallo-style slasher Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:24 AM PST Maximiliano Contenti's horror flick attempts to unpick voyeurism but lacks the sophistication of others in the genre Nostalgia for idiosyncratic analogue film style is the simplest explanation for the recent giallo revival – but maybe there's more to it than that. This most stylised of horror modes is perfect for our over-aestheticised age, so the newcomers – such as Berberian Sound Studio, Censor and Sound of Violence – make artists and viewers accessories to violence, often unleashed through that giallo mainstay, the power of the gaze. Set almost entirely in a tatty Montevideo rep cinema, Uruguayan slasher The Last Matinee joins this voyeuristic club, even if it ends up more in the raw than the refined camp. On a rainswept night in 1993, engineering student Ana (Luciana Grasso) insists on taking over projectionist duties for a screening of Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (an in-joke – it was released in 2011 and was directed by Ricardo Islas, who plays the killer here). She shuts herself in the booth, trying to ignore the inane banter of usher Mauricio (Pedro Duarte) – but neither have noticed a heavy-set trenchcoated bogeyman enter the auditorium to size up that night's film faithful: three teenagers, an awkward couple on a first date, a flat-capped pensioner and a underage kid stowaway (Franco Durán). Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:44 PM PST Omicron cases continue to climb in Sydney as thousands of people protest for 'freedom' in Melbourne
Hunt is asked whether states, like Queensland, will hold off opening state borders until at least 80% of kids aged five to 11 are vaccinated given today's announcement. Hunt: There is no reason for that. The Doherty modelling was set out very clearly on the 80% rates for double dosed across the country for 16 plus, and what we have seen now is that in terms of the 12 to 15-year-olds, we have now had an extra 1.8 million vaccinations over and above the Doherty modelling. The Doherty modelling was based on an 80% national rate for double dosed and didn't include 12 to 15-year-olds. A bit over a fifth of all cases of Covid are actually in the under 12s. Indeed, some of the early data with Omicron suggests it may actually be higher for the Omicron variant ... While most kids to get fairly mild infection and only a limited number end up in ICU, is great, there are bigger impacts. Unfortunately about one in 3,000 of the kids who get Covid actually end up with this funny immunological condition called multi-system inflammatory condition. Those kids can end up being very sick for months. It is not the same as long Covid but it has some things in common, and it has a whole range of symptoms where the kid is just not well. That is one of the things we are protecting against by vaccinating children... Continue reading... |
| Lives lost at Europe’s borders and Afghan MPs in exile: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 03 Dec 2021 11:30 PM PST A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Mexico to Manila Continue reading... |
| Omicron proves we’re not in control of Covid – only global action can stop this pandemic Posted: 04 Dec 2021 12:00 PM PST If we keep allowing this virus to spread through unvaccinated populations, the next variant could be even more deadly It's almost two years since we first heard of Covid-19, and a year since the first Covid vaccines were rolled out. Yet this staggering progress is being squandered. We have drifted for months now, with richer countries, taking a very blinkered domestic focus, lulled into thinking that the worst of the pandemic was behind us. This variant reminds us all that we remain closer to the start of the pandemic than the end. There is a lot we need to learn about the Omicron variant. Whether or not this is a pandemic-changing variant – one that really evades our vaccines and treatments – remains to be seen. Research will tell us more in the coming days and weeks, and we must watch and follow the data closely while giving the brilliant scientific teams time to get the answers. Although I am very worried about countries with limited access to vaccines, I am cautiously hopeful that our current vaccines will continue to protect us against severe sickness and death, if we are fully vaccinated. Continue reading... |
| Indonesian Semeru volcano spews huge ash cloud – video Posted: 04 Dec 2021 08:45 AM PST A sudden eruption from the highest volcano on Indonesia's most densely populated island of Java left several villages blanketed with falling ash. The eruption was accompanied by a thunderstorm that spread lava and smouldering debris, which formed thick mud. The event triggered panic among locals and caused one death Continue reading... |
| Omicron Covid variant: too soon to say illness severity – video Posted: 04 Dec 2021 05:54 AM PST The variant first identified in South Africa has been detected in at least 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, the World Health Organization's technical lead for Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, has said. The WHO has said it could take weeks to determine how infectious Omicron is, whether it causes more severe illness and how effective treatments and vaccines are against it
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