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- US puts 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid fears over Ukraine
- Hundreds of boys ‘human shields’ in Islamic State prison breakout
- Boris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday party
- James Webb space telescope takes up station a million miles from Earth
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest supercomputer
- Puerto Rico: statue of Spanish explorer toppled before King Felipe’s visit
- For sale: CIA ‘black site’ where terror suspects were tortured in Lithuania
- Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis
- ‘We’re next’: Prisoner’s secret filming appears to show torture in Cairo police station
- Heidelberg student kills one and injures three in lecture hall attack
- Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of raping her on music video set
- UK scraps Covid testing after arrival for double-vaccinated travellers
- Covid live: testing for fully vaccinated travellers to UK to be scrapped; new vaccine pass rules in France
- Trudeau says Conservatives stoking fear over Canada’s trucker vaccine mandate
- ‘Paradigm shift’ needed in way WHO is funded, says director general
- Rising costs of Ukraine gamble could force Russia’s hand
- From Billy Elliot to Spider-Man: how Tom Holland won the world’s heart
- Rhino that lost horns in attack back in South African wild after 30 operations
- Sharp Stick review – Lena Dunham’s comeback is a misjudged experiment
- Taylor Swift criticises Damon Albarn for saying she doesn’t write her own songs
- Palm Trees and Power Lines review – an unnerving, remarkable debut
- ‘I owe it to the kids’: coin found by detectorist dad sold for £648,000
- Manchester police make sixth arrest after fatal stabbing of Kennie Carter, 16
- White House says Biden ‘refining plans for all scenarios’ over Ukraine-Russia – live
- Deadly crush reported outside Africa Cup of Nations match in Cameroon
- ‘A genocide against our people’: Australian Uyghur leader calls for athlete boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
- Australia news live update: 58 Covid deaths in Victoria and NSW; NSW restrictions to continue another month; free rapid test pledge falls short
- We can afford to reverse poverty and climate breakdown. What we can’t afford is the alternative | Kevin Watkins
- Port in a storm: the trailblazing town welcoming climate refugees in Bangladesh
- Police use water cannon at Brussels protest against Covid rules – video
| US puts 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid fears over Ukraine Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:26 PM PST Soldiers placed on standby to deploy to Europe as concerns over possible 'lightning attack' by Russia grow The US has placed 8,500 troops on heightened alert to deploy to Europe as Nato reinforced its eastern borders with warships and fighter jets, amid growing fears of a possible "lightning" attack by Russia to seize the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the troops, all of them currently stationed in the US, would be on standby to take part in Nato's Response Force (NRF) if it is activated, but would also be available "if other situations develop". Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of boys ‘human shields’ in Islamic State prison breakout Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:07 AM PST Siege in Kurdish-run prison in Syria 'deeply distressing', says Save the Children The fate of more than 700 boys and teenage detainees has become central to the siege of a Kurdish-run prison in Syria that was overrun on Friday by jihadists, who are accused of using the boys as human shields. As the siege around the Ghwayran prison in the Kurdish-run northern city of Hasakah entered a fifth day, Islamic State prisoners inside moved into a dormitory housing the boys, some of whom are as young as 12, in an attempt to prevent an assault by Kurdish forces stationed outside. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson faces fresh outrage over lockdown birthday party Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:53 PM PST Furious response from MPs and bereaved after revelation of celebration held indoors in contravention of Covid restrictions Boris Johnson was facing renewed anger from MPs and bereaved families on Monday after the disclosure that his fiancee threw him a surprise lockdown birthday party, as sources said an official inquiry had uncovered "appalling evidence of mismanagement" at the heart of Downing Street. Sue Gray, the senior civil servant leading the inquiry into Downing Street parties, is expected to make deeply critical recommendations on overhauling No 10's operation after hearing of repeated failures of leadership, according to a Whitehall source who spoke to the inquiry. Continue reading... |
| James Webb space telescope takes up station a million miles from Earth Posted: 24 Jan 2022 02:03 PM PST $10bn observatory manoeuvred into position at four times the orbit of the moon, with first images expected in June The world's largest and most powerful telescope has reached its final destination – an observation post one million miles away from Earth. Nasa's $10bn James Webb space telescope launched on Christmas Day last year from French Guiana on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe. Due to its sheer size, Webb had to launch folded inside the Ariane 5, a European rocket. Continue reading... |
| Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest supercomputer Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:42 AM PST Facebook founder's planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing power Mark Zuckerberg has announced his social media empire is building what he claims is the world's fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer as part of plans to build a virtual metaverse. The Facebook founder said in a blogpost that the metaverse, a concept that blends the physical and digital world via virtual and augmented reality, will require "enormous" computing power. The AI supercomputer, dubbed AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) by Zuckerberg's Meta business, is already the fifth fastest in the world, the company said. Continue reading... |
| Puerto Rico: statue of Spanish explorer toppled before King Felipe’s visit Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:00 PM PST Juan Ponce de León statue came down hours before king arrives on island to mark 500 years since founding of capital San Juan A statue of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León has been toppled in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, hours before a visit to the Caribbean island by Spain's King Felipe VI. The capital's mayor, Miguel Romero, criticized the incident on Monday as an "act of vandalism" in remarks to news outlet El Nuevo Día, but sought to downplay the significance of the incident and the extent of the damage. Continue reading... |
| For sale: CIA ‘black site’ where terror suspects were tortured in Lithuania Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:57 AM PST Government prepares to sell barn known as Project No 2 or Detention Site Violet, which has windowless, soundproof rooms A menacing steel barn outside the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius where CIA terror suspects were once held in solitary confinement, subjected to constant light and high-intensity noise, is soon to go on the market. The government's real estate fund, which handles assets no longer needed by the state, said on Monday it was preparing to sell the notorious former "black site", known as Project No 2 or Detention Site Violet, for an as-yet unknown price. Continue reading... |
| Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:03 AM PST Lourdes Maldonado was shot in Tijuana, a week after another journalist was killed, and a third was fatally stabbed days earlier Three years ago reporter Lourdes Maldonado López stood up before Mexico's president at a press conference and told him: "I fear for my life." On Sunday she was gunned down in the city of Tijuana – the third Mexican journalist to be killed this year in what is a deepening murder crisis facing the country's press corps and its populist leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re next’: Prisoner’s secret filming appears to show torture in Cairo police station Posted: 24 Jan 2022 05:01 AM PST Human rights groups claim the violent abuse of detainees is widespread in Egypt and perpetrators are seldom punished A video obtained by the Guardian appearing to show Egyptian police torturing detainees in a Cairo police station confirms the extent to which officers appear able to inflict violence on civilians with near total impunity, according to human rights groups. The video, covertly recorded by a detainee through a cell door, appears to show two inmates hung in stress positions. The detainees are naked from the waist up and suspended from a metal grate by their arms, which are fastened behind their backs. Continue reading... |
| Heidelberg student kills one and injures three in lecture hall attack Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:14 AM PST Lone gunman, 18, opens fire on peers at Germany's oldest university before killing himself One person was shot dead and three others were injured when an 18-year-old man opened fire on his fellow students in a packed lecture hall in the German university town of Heidelberg, according to police. The gunman, who was enrolled in the same course in life sciences as the students he attacked, entered the university hall shortly before 12.25pm, while a lecture was in progress, carrying a rifle and a double-barrelled shotgun. Continue reading... |
| Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of raping her on music video set Posted: 24 Jan 2022 02:39 AM PST In a new documentary premiered at Sundance, Wood claimed she was 'coerced into a commercial sex act under false pretences' The actor Evan Rachel Wood has accused the rock musician Marilyn Manson of raping her on the set of the music video for his 2007 single Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand). In Phoenix Rising, a new documentary about her life and career which premiered at the 2022 Sundance film festival, Wood said that during a previously discussed "simulated sex scene", Manson "started penetrating me for real" once the cameras were rolling. Continue reading... |
| UK scraps Covid testing after arrival for double-vaccinated travellers Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:01 PM PST Requirement to take lateral flow test will end from 4am on 11 February, cheered by airlines as a 'landmark' Coronavirus testing for double-vaccinated travellers arriving in the UK will be scrapped from 4am on 11 February. In a boost for travel firms and families planning trips abroad, eligible passengers will no longer have to take a post-arrival lateral flow test (LFT). The change will save families about £100 a trip. The industry body Airlines UK said it was a "landmark day". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2022 03:01 PM PST UK transport secretary says testing rules for travellers into country will change from 4am on 11 February; new France rules come into force
That's it from me, Helen Livingstone, for today. I'm handing you over to my colleague Martin Belam. Before I go, here's a roundup of what's been happening over the past 24 hours: Continue reading... |
| Trudeau says Conservatives stoking fear over Canada’s trucker vaccine mandate Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:05 AM PST Prime minister says claims that Covid-19 measure will disrupt supply chain and boost inflation are 'fearmongering' Justin Trudeau has accused Canada's conservative politicians of stoking fear that Covid-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers are exacerbating supply chain disruptions and fueling inflation. The United States imposed a mandate, meant to aid the fight against the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the coronavirus, on 22 January, while Canada's started on 15 January. The trucking industry has warned that the measure will take thousands of drivers off the roads during what is already a dire labor shortage in the industry. Continue reading... |
| ‘Paradigm shift’ needed in way WHO is funded, says director general Posted: 24 Jan 2022 06:48 AM PST Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says Covid pandemic has proven that health is 'an international issue' The head of the World Health Organization has warned member countries that the UN's global health body is being "set up to fail" without a "paradigm shift" in the way that it is funded and supported. In stark language delivered to the WHO's executive board, the organisation's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 5.5 million lives, had underlined the need to strengthen health systems as well as pandemic preparedness plans. Continue reading... |
| Rising costs of Ukraine gamble could force Russia’s hand Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:27 AM PST Analysis: Putin can still turn back but it looks less likely as economic and political consequences mount Russia's aggressive buildup near Ukraine energised Nato into sending more forces to eastern Europe on Monday and led to a plunge on Russian markets, raising the stakes on the Kremlin's bet that it could cajole, extort or force Ukraine into submission. For Moscow it has become more difficult to pull back from its aggressive stance after US and Nato announcements that more troops would be deployed to the military alliance's eastern flank. A unilateral drawdown now would leave the Kremlin a clear loser in the standoff, having provoked a strengthening of the very Nato presence that it had sought to banish from eastern Europe. Continue reading... |
| From Billy Elliot to Spider-Man: how Tom Holland won the world’s heart Posted: 24 Jan 2022 07:25 AM PST The British actor's ascent to Hollywood stardom via gymnastics and dance was not always a given Tom Holland was obsessed with Spider-Man as a boy. Growing up in Kingston upon Thames, he came to own more than 30 Spider-Man costumes and cherished his Spider-Man bedsheets. And, unlike for most, his childhood obsession paid dividends later in life: he would eventually get to play his hero, landing the role that has made him the most famous young British actor in the world. Continue reading... |
| Rhino that lost horns in attack back in South African wild after 30 operations Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:01 PM PST Six years ago poachers hacked off Sehawukele's horns; now he's back in a game reserve A 10-year-old white rhino whose horns were brutally hacked off has returned to the wild after 30 operations over six years to repair the gash in his face. His rescuers named the bull Sehawukele, meaning "God have mercy on us". Called Seha for short, he was found by police stumbling near a fence in a reserve, so disfigured that he could barely hear or eat. Continue reading... |
| Sharp Stick review – Lena Dunham’s comeback is a misjudged experiment Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:18 AM PST The Girls co-creator's first feature since 2011 on a 26-year-old's sexual awakening has flashes of brilliance but is hobbled by infantilization Ever since Hannah Horvath, the unfocused twentysomething protagonist of the HBO series Girls, declared herself the voice of a generation, audiences have struggled to read Lena Dunham. The line was clearly at least half-ironic, a joke, but many took it at face value, indicative of Dunham's aspirations as both a writer and public figure. Dunham has provoked, fairly and unfairly, intense reactions since Girls, which she created with Jenni Konner, put her on the map in 2012, at 25; her solid artistic instincts – go back and watch the pre-MeToo sixth season episode American Bitch, which shreds the double-edged flattery of the self-important male artist – are often accompanied by baffling foot-in-mouth moments along lines of race, class, gender, and plain old overexposure. Sharp Stick, Dunham's first film since her breakout feature Tiny Furniture in 2011, isn't likely to help that reputation. This awkward, misjudged, occasionally sexy film has seeds of a radical, fresh story and flashes of directorial brilliance but is hobbled throughout by the confounding decision to write her 26-year-old main character as either insensitively neuro-divergent or more sheltered child than adult. Sharp Stick is showing at the Sundance film festival with a release date to be announced Continue reading... |
| Taylor Swift criticises Damon Albarn for saying she doesn’t write her own songs Posted: 24 Jan 2022 01:57 PM PST The singer tweeted that the Blur and Gorillaz frontman's 'hot take is completely false and SO damaging' after comments in interview Taylor Swift has called out Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur and later of Gorillaz, on Twitter after the British musician told the LA Times she "doesn't write her own songs". "I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this," the American singer, 32, tweeted at Albarn. "I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don't have to like my songs but it's really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW." Continue reading... |
| Palm Trees and Power Lines review – an unnerving, remarkable debut Posted: 24 Jan 2022 02:05 PM PST The first feature from Jamie Dack, about a relationship between a 34-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl, boasts a breakout performance for newcomer Lily McInerny Palm Trees and Power Lines, a remarkably sharp-eyed and bruising debut from writer-director Jamie Dack, opens in the distended, languid stretch of a teenage summer. Lea, played in a stunning first turn by newcomer Lily McInerny, is 17 years old and bored. She lives with her single mother, harried and yearning Sandra (Gretchen Mol), somewhere in small-town, coastal California – palm trees and power lines, railroad tracks and modest homes – and floats through the days with sunbathing, YouTube makeup tutorials, and trips to the cheap ice cream chain store with her lustful best friend Amber (Quinn Frankel). Lots of films mistake glamorizing and maturing adolescence for capturing it, but Dack's feature, developed from her 2018 short of the same name, is saturated with the teenage. The actors are fresh-faced and gangly, and Dack has a keen ear for the vacuity and experimental crudeness of teenage conversations – boys ranking girls they know on a 10-point scale, girls playing along to hang, fart jokes, generally talking about nothing. Lea spends a good portion of the first 15 minutes prone – on the ground, on the floor with Amber, on the couch, on a lounge chair, in the backseat of someone's car during passionless sex with a clueless boy – and the camera is there with her, on her level, hemmed by the smallness of her world. Palm Trees and Power Lines is showing at the Sundance film festival with a release date to be announced Continue reading... |
| ‘I owe it to the kids’: coin found by detectorist dad sold for £648,000 Posted: 24 Jan 2022 08:01 AM PST Devon family makes a fortune from 13th-century gold coin discovered thanks to return to an old hobby A metal detectorist who gave up his hobby when he started a family, only to return to it when his children were old enough to nag him into taking them out detecting with him, has been rewarded with one of the most extraordinary finds – a fine example of England's oldest gold coin, which has sold for a record-breaking £648,000 at auction. Michael Leigh-Mallory, 52, found the Henry III gold penny buried 10cm deep on farmland in the Devon village of Hemyock shortly after taking up his old hobby again. Not realising what it was, he posted a picture of the coin on social media, where it was spotted by the auctioneers Spink in London. Continue reading... |
| Manchester police make sixth arrest after fatal stabbing of Kennie Carter, 16 Posted: 24 Jan 2022 01:49 PM PST Five teenagers already held before 14-year-old arrested in Stretford, where attack occurred Police have arrested a sixth teenager following the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Kennie Carter in Manchester. Greater Manchester police (GMP) said Kennie was found with stab wounds to the chest in Stretford at about 7pm on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| White House says Biden ‘refining plans for all scenarios’ over Ukraine-Russia – live Posted: 24 Jan 2022 03:02 PM PST
More on the Ukraine situation: Joe Biden will hold a video call this afternoon with European leaders about the possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The call will be with: Continue reading... |
| Deadly crush reported outside Africa Cup of Nations match in Cameroon Posted: 24 Jan 2022 02:24 PM PST
At least six people have died as fans tried to enter a stadium hosting an African Cup of Nations game in Cameroon on Monday, a government official has confirmed. Naseri Paul Biya, governor of the central region of Cameroon, said there could be more casualties. Officials at a nearby hospital said they had received at least 40 injured people from the crush. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2022 03:00 PM PST 'While our people suffer in camps and in prison we can't enjoy the game even if we want to. It hurts'
Uyghur community leader Adam Turan says it "hurts" that Australian athletes are still taking part in the Winter Olympics "in a country where they're carrying out a genocide against our people". His voice adds to global criticism of China's human rights record ahead of February's games in Beijing. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2022 03:15 PM PST Victoria records 29 Covid deaths and 14,836 new cases; NSW records 29 deaths and 18,512 cases, with current restrictions to continue for another month; some experts are saying the worst of the pandemic may be over as Omicron peaks. Follow all the latest news
The benchmark ASX200 is set to fall 1.7% this morning, according to futures data, following further losses on overseas markets overnight. In the US, the S&P500 fell 0.72% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq index dropped 0.43%, while London's FTSE100 shed a whopping 2.63%. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2022 12:15 AM PST Our global finance system is failing to rise to the challenges we face. It's time it was reimagined – and grounded in our shared humanity "The peoples of the Earth," Henry Morgenthau said, "are inseparably linked by a deep underlying community of purpose." In July 1944, Morgenthau, the US Treasury secretary, was closing the Bretton Woods conference with a reflection on extreme nationalism and the failures of cooperation that had led to war. Cautioning against the pursuit of national interest through "the plan-less, senseless rivalry that divided us", he outlined an accord for new institutions grounded in an appeal to shared humanity. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Port in a storm: the trailblazing town welcoming climate refugees in Bangladesh Posted: 23 Jan 2022 10:01 PM PST The river town of Mongla is leading the way in a project to resettle people in a region decimated by extreme weather By the time the rising sun breaks through the morning mist over the Mongla River, the rhythmic chug of motors strapped to wooden canoes is already audible as thousands of workers are hurriedly ferried across the waterway. They jump on to the small landing dock, pick up a potato-stuffed shingara pastry for pennies and rush towards the factories in Mongla's export processing zone (EPZ), which has transformed the small town into an employment hub in a part of Bangladesh ravaged by the climate crisis. Continue reading... |
| Police use water cannon at Brussels protest against Covid rules – video Posted: 24 Jan 2022 02:40 AM PST Violent clashes broke out between police and people protesting against Covid-19 restrictions in Brussels on Sunday. Police used teargas and fired water cannon in an effort to disperse protesters. Authorities said about 50,000 people took part in the demonstration in the Belgium capital, which coincided with similar protests in other European cities. Protesters hurled projectiles outside the European Union's diplomatic service and metal barriers were thrown at officers in a metro station Continue reading... |
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