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- Johnson struggles to rally team as pressure on him builds up
- Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’
- Xi and Putin urge Nato to rule out expansion as Ukraine tensions rise
- ‘Strong, smart, witty’: stepmother pays tribute to daughter, 19, killed in Essex
- ‘A George Floyd every 23 minutes’: fury at refugee’s brutal murder at Rio beach
- At least 21 dead after Pakistan army clashes with militants for third day
- Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars
- Iceland to end whaling in 2024 as demand dwindles
- Seven killed after plane touring Nazca lines crashes in Peruvian desert
- Moroccan rescuers close in on five-year-old boy trapped in well
- Jimmy Carr condemned for ‘abhorrent’ Holocaust joke about Roma people
- ‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes
- Record Covid cases in Russia and Ukraine complicate military plans
- ‘Lawlessness must end’: Canada police pledge tougher action on truck protests
- Covid live news: Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases; England’s R number rises to between 0.8 and 1.1
- In too deep: the epic, doomed journey of Europe’s first narco-submarine
- ‘And the loser is …’: Are music awards shows in crisis?
- Costa’s win in Portugal continues comeback by Europe’s centre-left
- Carrie Johnson: puppet master of Downing Street – or easy target?
- ‘A time for reflection’: Queen prepares for first accession day without Philip
- ‘We are still shocked’: the Syrians who discovered Islamic State’s leader was their neighbour
- Too cool for the pool: how the Dryrobe became the most divisive thing you can wear
- Home Office to stop paying for asylum seekers’ toiletries and medication
- The Guardian view on the DUP: signs of weakness and woe | Editorial
- The Guardian view on vaccine justice: the developing world won’t wait | Editorial
- Republicans call January 6 ‘legitimate political discourse’ as party censures Cheney and Kinzinger – live
- Australia live news updates: Barnaby Joyce says he offered resignation to Scott Morrison over text calling him a ‘liar’; Victoria reports 41 Covid deaths and NSW 18
- ‘We want the truth’: families of ethnic Pamiris killed in Tajikistan call for justice as tensions rise
- ‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon
- My dying grandmother’s pain inspired me to challenge Zimbabwe’s pharmacy system | Dudzai Mureyi
- Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’
- Myanmar’s UN envoy under fire for proposing ‘power share’ with military
- Covid reinfections: why are they being included in UK case numbers?
- Māori might be the ‘luckiest’ Indigenous people – but that’s not down to New Zealand exceptionalism | Morgan Godfery
- Rudy Giuliani doesn’t need a monster costume to scare children | Sam Wolfson
- Islamic State’s leader may be dead but the organisation still lurks in the rubble
- New Zealand parrot steals camera and films airborne escape – video
- Incredible images from the Budapest Foto Awards 2021 – in pictures
- Joe Biden confirms death of Islamic State leader after US raid in Syria – video
- Footage shows aftermath of US raid on house of Islamic State leader – video
- New Zealand to end quarantine and reopen borders – video
| Johnson struggles to rally team as pressure on him builds up Posted: 04 Feb 2022 11:43 AM PST Sajid Javid has joined Rishi Sunak in rejecting slur on Keir Starmer and another MP has called for PM to go Boris Johnson's attempts to rally his dilapidated top team floundered on Friday after a second cabinet minister distanced himself from the prime minister and another Conservative MP called for him to go. In a bid to shore up support, Johnson wrote to MPs promising them a "direct line to Downing Street", but his move came as Sajid Javid followed the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, in rejecting Johnson's remarks linking Starmer with the failure to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. Continue reading... |
| Republican party calls January 6 attack ‘legitimate political discourse’ Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:39 PM PST Party censures Cheney and Kinzinger, the only Republicans on the Capitol attack House panel, as Pence says 'Trump is wrong' In an extraordinary move, the Republican party officially said Donald Trump's attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat and the deadly attack on the US Capitol were "legitimate political discourse". A leading Democrat on the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said historians would be "aghast". Continue reading... |
| Xi and Putin urge Nato to rule out expansion as Ukraine tensions rise Posted: 04 Feb 2022 08:07 AM PST Chinese and Russian leaders call on west to abandon 'cold war' approach at pre-Olympic meeting China's Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia have signed a joint statement calling on the west to "abandon the ideologised approaches of the cold war", as the two leaders showcased their warming relationship in Beijing at the start of the Winter Olympics. The politicans also said the bonds between the two countries had "no limits". "[T]here are no 'forbidden' areas of cooperation'," they declared. Continue reading... |
| ‘Strong, smart, witty’: stepmother pays tribute to daughter, 19, killed in Essex Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:33 AM PST Canadian Ashley Wadsworth was staying in Chelmsford with Jack Sepple, whom she met on dating app The stepmother of a 19-year-old woman from Canada allegedly murdered in Essex as she visited the UK for the first time has paid tribute to her "strong, smart and witty" daughter. Ashley Wadsworth, from Vernon, British Columbia, had reportedly never left Canada before arriving in the UK in November to stay with Jack Sepple in Chelmsford, Essex, whom she had met through an online dating app. She was due to fly home to see her family this week. Continue reading... |
| ‘A George Floyd every 23 minutes’: fury at refugee’s brutal murder at Rio beach Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:10 AM PST Thousands expected at Saturday demonstration as killing of young Congolese lays bare racial fault lines in Brazilian society Thousands of demonstrators are expected to hit Brazil's streets on Saturday to protest against the murder of a young Congolese refugee whose killing – captured in spine-chilling video footage – has caused an explosion of anger over deep-rooted structural racism and hate violence. Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe abandoned his home in the conflict-stricken city of Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 11 years ago after his grandmother was killed. He sought shelter thousands of miles away in Brazil only to lose his own life last week, aged 24, after being set upon by a group of men on one of Rio's best-known beaches, Barra da Tijuca. Continue reading... |
| At least 21 dead after Pakistan army clashes with militants for third day Posted: 04 Feb 2022 11:59 AM PST Official says separatists' assault timed to 'sabotage' prime minister Imran Khan's visit to China Pakistani troops battled separatist militants for a third day on Friday in the troubled province of Balochistan, where hundreds of residents in a town near the Iranian border remained trapped by shellfire and heavy fighting. The violence erupted on Wednesday when insurgents from the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) launched twin assaults on bases of the paramilitary Frontier Corps in the Naushki and Panjgur districts, leading to the deaths of at least 12 soldiers and nine militants. Continue reading... |
| Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:17 AM PST Move follows warnings Mark Zuckerberg's plan for metaverse could lead to increased online harassment Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality business is to introduce a mandatory distance between people's digital avatars after warnings that the social media tycoon's plans for a metaverse will lead to a new wave of online harassment. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is making a multibillion-dollar bet on VR as the next source of growth for his empire but his strategy has already been dogged by warnings that virtual worlds are rife with abuse. Continue reading... |
| Iceland to end whaling in 2024 as demand dwindles Posted: 04 Feb 2022 08:09 AM PST Japan's return to commercial whaling in 2019 has left few buyers for Iceland's meat Iceland, one of the only countries that still hunts whales commercially, along with Norway and Japan, plans to end whaling from 2024 as demand dwindles, the fisheries minister has said. "There are few justifications to authorise the whale hunt beyond 2024," when current quotas expire, Svandis Svavarsdóttir, a member of the Left Green party, wrote in Morgunblaðið newspaper. Continue reading... |
| Seven killed after plane touring Nazca lines crashes in Peruvian desert Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:13 PM PST Deceased included three Dutch tourists, two Chilean tourists, and two Peruvian members of crew, local police said A light plane carrying sightseers for a tour of the Nazca lines in the Peruvian desert has crashed, killing all seven people aboard. Local police said that the deceased included three Dutch tourists, two Chilean tourists and two Peruvian members of crew. Continue reading... |
| Moroccan rescuers close in on five-year-old boy trapped in well Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:19 AM PST Complex and dangerous operation grips residents after Rayan fell 32 metres down an empty shaft in Chefchaouen Rescuers have inched closer to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a well in Morocco, in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability that has captivated the north African country. Rayan fell into a 32 metre (105 ft) well located outside his home in the village of Ighran in Morocco's northern Chefchaouen province on Tuesday evening. Continue reading... |
| Jimmy Carr condemned for ‘abhorrent’ Holocaust joke about Roma people Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:32 AM PST Memorial day charity 'appalled' at comedian's remarks about Nazi killings in Netflix special Anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate have condemned Jimmy Carr for his comments about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in his Netflix special. The show, called His Dark Material, was released on Christmas Day but received widespread attention on Friday after a clip was posted and shared online. Continue reading... |
| ‘The case for masks became hugely stronger’: scientists admit their Covid mistakes Posted: 04 Feb 2022 07:38 AM PST Being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. Here, experts reveal what they got wrong during the pandemic Einstein once observed that "a scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others". Aside from the "he", the statement accurately sums up the tone of some of the current scientific discourse on Covid-19. Views on lockdowns, vaccinating children and mask mandates have become increasingly polarised, and social media is unforgiving towards those who voice a change of heart. Yet being proved wrong lies at the heart of scientific progress. In science, an unwillingness to revise your position is normally viewed as an intellectual weakness rather than a sign of moral strength. With this in mind, we asked leading scientists what they got wrong during the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Record Covid cases in Russia and Ukraine complicate military plans Posted: 04 Feb 2022 07:06 AM PST Spread of Omicron variant cited as another factor that could determine whether Moscow launches offensive The Omicron variant is causing record numbers of new Covid infections in Russia and Ukraine, threatening to impact military calculations over Russia's continued troop buildup. Analysts have cited various factors as possible contributors to whether and how Russia will launch an assault on Ukraine, ranging from Vladimir Putin's psychological state to the strength of the western response and even the firmness of the ground during a mild winter in the region. Continue reading... |
| ‘Lawlessness must end’: Canada police pledge tougher action on truck protests Posted: 04 Feb 2022 09:29 AM PST Ottawa police announce 150 more officers will be deployed as 400 more trucks and 2,000 protesters expected to arrive Police in Canada have promised tougher action against the "unlawful and unacceptably dangerous" protests paralyzing the nation's capital, but admitted the situation was increasingly out of their control. With 400 more trucks and 2,000 protesters expected to arrive in the city this weekend, Ottawa police on Friday announced that 150 additional officers will be deployed and concrete barricades set up to prevent more vehicles from reaching the city's downtown core. Illegally parked vehicles will be towed and highways and bridges could be closed. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:52 PM PST Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising
Bulgaria reported 8,142 new Covid infections yesterday, public broadcaster BNT reports, taking the country's 7-day average to 8,134 cases a day. That's near last week's peak of over 12,000, as Omicron has jolted infections up to record levels recently. There are 6,124 Covid patients in hospital. In Missouri, the second worst state in the country for hospitalizations, 79% of the hospitals are under extreme stress. At Mercy hospital in Springfield, in the south-western part of the state, about 28% of their hospitalizations are Covid-19 patients, according to Erik Frederick, the hospital's chief administrative office. ... "It creates a lot of stress on the healthcare system," Frederick said. Continue reading... |
| In too deep: the epic, doomed journey of Europe’s first narco-submarine Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:56 AM PST Former boxer Agustín Álvarez jailed for piloting a sub carrying 3,000kg of cocaine across the Atlantic Twenty-eight months after it began in a clandestine shipyard deep in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the more unlikely criminal voyages of all time came to an end on Tuesday with the seven sentences handed down by a court in north-west Spain. Agustín Álvarez, a 31-year-old former Spanish amateur boxing champion, was jailed for 11 years for piloting a semi-submersible "narco-submarine" carrying 3,068kg of cocaine worth an estimated €123m (£104m) across the Atlantic. His two crewmates, Ecuadorian cousins Luis Tomás Benítez Manzaba and Pedro Roberto Delgado Manzaba, received the same sentence, while four Spaniards who conspired with Álvarez to help guide the sub ashore were jailed for between seven and nine years. Continue reading... |
| ‘And the loser is …’: Are music awards shows in crisis? Posted: 04 Feb 2022 06:00 AM PST With plummeting ratings and accusations of racial and gender bias, the Brits and Grammys are facing a battle to stay relevant Once upon a time, the Brit awards and the Grammys were an annual staple in the TV calendar of even the most casual music fan. Drawing millions of viewers, the ceremonies offered a feast of entertainment, ranging from the unpredictable to the spectacular. Think Chumbawamba chucking a bucket of ice water over John Prescott at the 1998 Brits or Lady Gaga emerging from an egg at the Grammys in 2011. More recently, Brits sets by Stormzy and Dave have marked an important shift in mainstream recognition of Black British talent. For audiences, however, the shine seems to have worn off. Last year's ITV broadcast of the Brits, which was postponed from February to May due to Covid-19, recorded 2.9 million viewers – a figure that plunged for the fourth year running. The 2021 Grammys were the lowest rated in history, delivering an audience of just 8.8 million viewers for CBS, down a staggering 53% on the year prior. (These declines aren't exclusive to music award ceremonies: the Oscars also recorded a 58.3% dip in viewers last year.) Continue reading... |
| Costa’s win in Portugal continues comeback by Europe’s centre-left Posted: 04 Feb 2022 07:52 AM PST Analysis: Social democratic parties that have adapted to the political landscape are winning elections again The unexpected triumph of António Costa's Socialist party in Portugal's elections this week continues a cautious comeback by Europe's centre-left – and, analysts say, may hold some lessons in what remains a mixed picture for the continent's social democrats. After wins last autumn by Germany's SPD and Norway's Labour party, the Portuguese prime minister's unexpected victory – with 41.7% of the vote, five points up on 2019 – was further good news for a movement that five years ago looked in terminal decline. Continue reading... |
| Carrie Johnson: puppet master of Downing Street – or easy target? Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:01 AM PST Some argue Boris Johnson's wife is pulling the strings at No 10 but others note that claims contain more than a whiff of sexism Boris Johnson's inner circle imploded so spectacularly in recent days that only one close political confidante from the early days of No 10 remains: his wife, Carrie Johnson. The most powerful prime ministerial spouse in recent memory, the 33-year-old Johnson has a job of her own for a wildlife charity, but multiple sources from Downing Street past and present say her influence on the prime minister's operation is undeniable. Continue reading... |
| ‘A time for reflection’: Queen prepares for first accession day without Philip Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:00 AM PST Marking 70 years on the throne will be a private occasion of mixed feelings for the monarch Seventy years after becoming monarch far sooner than she could have anticipated, the Queen will mark the anniversary of her accession on Sunday at Sandringham, where her father George VI died aged 56 in 1952. Though it has long been her custom to mark this milestone at the Norfolk estate, this year has added poignancy. The Duke of Edinburgh, her "strength and stay" during 73 years of marriage, and who broke news to her of the king's death while they were thousands of miles away at a Kenyan game lodge, is no longer at her side. Continue reading... |
| ‘We are still shocked’: the Syrians who discovered Islamic State’s leader was their neighbour Posted: 04 Feb 2022 11:11 AM PST Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi had been an unseen phantom in a safehouse in the town of Atme until his violent end on Thursday For many months, the man on the motorbike would come and go from the house and a mechanic's workshop in the Syrian border town of Atme. No other adult in the three-story building ever seemed to emerge, least of all a second man who signed a lease last spring and moved in with two women and three young children, never to be seen publicly again until the early hours of Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Too cool for the pool: how the Dryrobe became the most divisive thing you can wear Posted: 04 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST They were invented so surfers and swimmers could get undressed without flashing. So why are Dryrobes – half-towel, half-jacket – taking over our high streets? During the spring lockdown in 2020, Christopher Sloman was walking down a street in Hove when he saw what looked like a green dinosaur looming towards him. The 48-year-old charity shop worker was baffled by the figure in the distance – until he realised it was a woman whose coat was so oversized that her hands (one carrying a phone, the other a coffee) "looked really small," Sloman says. "I thought: My God, what on earth is that?" "That" turned out to be a Dryrobe – the £160 ankle-length, waterproof robe designed as an outdoor changing robe for surfers in 2010 which has become the go-to piece of kit for any half-serious outdoor swimmer. Continue reading... |
| Home Office to stop paying for asylum seekers’ toiletries and medication Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:41 PM PST Letter to former Afghan guard at British embassy in Kabul says measures will come into effect on 11 February Asylum seekers staying in hotels have been told by the Home Office that it will stop providing them with free access to non-basic toiletries and over-the-counter medication from next week. According to a letter seen by the PA news agency, the measures will come into effect on 11 February. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on the DUP: signs of weakness and woe | Editorial Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:25 AM PST This week's intransigent gestures on Brexit from Northern Ireland's largest party suggest it is facing electoral defeat in May The Democratic Unionist party pulled the plug on post-Brexit Irish Sea border checks this week and then resigned its joint leadership of Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive. These were dramatic gestures. They are a reminder of the chronic instability that has continued to dog Northern Ireland governance, in spite of the Good Friday agreement. They are also a reminder of the particularly destabilising effects of Brexit for Ireland as a whole. But they are, above all, a sign of DUP political weakness, not strength. They are a foolish gamble that the DUP can get its way in a Brexit argument to which compromise is, in the long run, the only solution. In the short term, however, the DUP's action has been provoked by electoral fear. An assembly election is due in Northern Ireland in three months' time. The DUP's positions as both the dominant unionist party and as the largest party in the assembly are under threat amid the anxieties triggered by Brexit. The party has been losing support to more moderate and more fundamentalist rivals alike. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on vaccine justice: the developing world won’t wait | Editorial Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:30 AM PST Only one in four African healthcare workers is protected. Regional production and patent waivers are needed No one asked for generosity – only justice. Self-interest as well as decency should have encouraged fairer distribution of vaccines: no one is safe until everyone is safe. Yet two years into the pandemic, with 8,400 people dying each day, the prospect of anything approaching vaccine equity remains as remote as ever. More boosters have been delivered in the developed world than first and second doses in low-income countries – the places that can least afford other measures such as restrictions on movements. In high-income countries more than two in three people have received at least one dose, but in low-income countries only one in nine. As of November, only one in four African healthworkers was fully vaccinated. "What we understood to be equitable treatment is not the way rich nations looked at it. [To them] it means: we get [them] first, and when we are done with saving our own people, we will then attend to you," observed Strive Masiyiwa, African Union special envoy on Covid-19, and head of the African vaccine acquisition task team. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:09 PM PST
Joe Biden is now delivering remarks on the strong January jobs report, which showed that the US economy added 467,000 jobs last month. The president pointed to the report as the latest evidence of how the US economy is recovering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, applauding the "extraordinary resilience and grit of the American people". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2022 02:14 PM PST Firefighters in WA battling two emergency-level bushfires; anti-vaccine protest reportedly planned for Canberra
NSW case numbers are in, and there have been 8,389 new Covid-19 cases detected over night from PCR and rapid antigen tests. Sadly, 18 more lives have been lost overnight. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2022 04:35 AM PST Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groups Parents of men killed by Tajikistan forces have called on the international community to step in and urgently protect ethnic groups being targeted by the Tajik regime. In a rare interview, families from the Pamiri ethnic minority have demanded that soldiers who killed their sons be brought to justice and urged the UN to prevent a new phase of conflict in Tajikistan, a landlocked country in central Asia. Continue reading... |
| ‘My first time holding a gun’: from Myanmar student to revolutionary soldier – a cartoon Posted: 04 Feb 2022 03:00 AM PST Faced with increasing state violence, young people across Myanmar are learning to fight. This is one young woman's story In the year since the 1 February coup, young people across Myanmar have risked their lives to resist military rule. At least 295 young people aged 18-25 have been killed in the military's suppression of the pro-democracy movement. More than 1,000 have been arrested, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. In response, thousands have left their homes and families to train as revolutionary fighters. JC is a young artist and illustrator from Myanmar's ethnic Karen community. She was born in Myanmar and raised on the Thai-Myanmar border Continue reading... |
| My dying grandmother’s pain inspired me to challenge Zimbabwe’s pharmacy system | Dudzai Mureyi Posted: 04 Feb 2022 01:38 AM PST Finding the right medicine at the right price was once a lottery – now the crowdsourcing service I set up is bringing down the cost of illness In July 2015, as my 82-year-old grandmother, Sophie Mafuku, lay dying of a terminal illness in Zimbabwe, I spent a day speaking to fellow pharmacists as I tried to fill her morphine prescription. If it takes 24 hours for the grandmother of a well-connected medical professional to access scarce drugs, I thought, how long is it taking people with no connections? It set me off on a journey. In Zimbabwe, systemic shortages are common. Sometimes, only a handful of pharmacies have particular drugs in stock. The shortages are caused by well-documented economic challenges, which affect Zimbabwe's capacity to manufacture or import medicines. Continue reading... |
| Mothers of the Myanmar revolution: ‘I worry about whether he has warm clothes’ Posted: 04 Feb 2022 12:00 AM PST Spurred on by military atrocities, young people are turning to armed struggle against the regime – leaving supportive but fearful families behind When Peh Reh's* mother, Mi Nya*, lost contact with him in September, she had little doubt as to where he had gone. Four months earlier, the 19-year-old had told her he wanted to join the armed resistance against the military, which had seized power from the democratically-elected government in Myanmar in February 2021. Yet she refused to let him leave their home in Myanmar's south-eastern Karenni state (also known as Kayah). "In my eyes, he is still so young," she says. "If I could, I would like to keep my son next to me all the time." Continue reading... |
| Myanmar’s UN envoy under fire for proposing ‘power share’ with military Posted: 03 Feb 2022 06:29 AM PST Pro-democracy groups condemn Noeleen Heyzer's comments in a TV interview, and maintain the junta is losing its grip The UN special envoy to Myanmar has been widely rebuked for suggesting that pro-democracy activists should negotiate a power-sharing agreement with the country's military, which is accused of atrocities including genocide. Almost 250 civil society organisations published a statement condemning the comments, warning they risked emboldening the military to commit "grave crimes with total impunity". Continue reading... |
| Covid reinfections: why are they being included in UK case numbers? Posted: 04 Feb 2022 08:05 AM PST As most UK countries start including reinfections in overall total, we look at why this is happening now With reinfections now included in the daily Covid case numbers for most countries in the UK, we take a look at why the shift matters. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2022 08:26 PM PST Such gains as Māori have made are no accident, but the result of a willingness to fight for what is rightfully theirs – a struggle that continues to this day Hannah Arendt, the political philosopher, once wrote that "power always stands in need of numbers". That insight, made in the context of a study into the nature of violence, is one that commentators often turn to when explaining why Māori appear to fare so much better than Indigenous peoples in other parts of the Anglosphere. Māori make up more than 15% of the New Zealand population – more than five times larger than the Aboriginal Australian or Native American share of their national populations – meaning Māori are in a better position to press for guaranteed representation in parliament and local government, for dedicated television channels and radio stations, for native language schooling, and more. Indigenous peoples in other countries, to paraphrase Arendt, stand in need of numbers. The argument is seductively simple. Social scientists sometimes call it the 3.5% rule. In other words, if enough people engage in active struggle – from workers' strikes to street protests – the disruption they cause is almost always enough to guarantee political change. In the 1980s socialist organisers were turning out tens of thousands of people on the streets to protest the Springbok tour, nuclear warships, and racism against Māori. It's impossible to measure whether the 3.5% threshold was met, but it's obvious enough that the many thousands who took part in demonstrations and advocacy were enough to cancel any further Springbok tours, to prohibit nuclear warships from New Zealand waters, and to strengthen the Treaty of Waitangi's position in the New Zealand constitution. Continue reading... |
| Rudy Giuliani doesn’t need a monster costume to scare children | Sam Wolfson Posted: 03 Feb 2022 11:44 AM PST Trump's lawyer was revealed to be a contestant on The Masked Singer – and when Robin Thicke storms off in protest, you know you've got problems It's like something from a Guillermo del Toro film: a grotesque fantasy creature disrobes, only to reveal an even more horrifying monster underneath. But that's what viewers will see when the US version of The Masked Singer, Fox's incognito singing competition, returns at the end of this month. The show, in which a panel of judges and the audience try to guess the identity of celebrity vocalists dressed in furry theme-park costumes, is taped in advance of airing. But Deadline reports that at the first episode's climax, when the eliminated singer reveals their true identity, it was Rudy Giuliani whose head popped out of the costume. Judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke walked off the set in protest. Quite a good reflection of how bad a guy you have to be when rape-culture chanteur Thicke, the singer of Blurred Lines, decides you're beyond the pale. Continue reading... |
| Islamic State’s leader may be dead but the organisation still lurks in the rubble Posted: 03 Feb 2022 09:23 AM PST Analysis: Qurayshi's killing by the US has to be set against January's raid on a Syria prison, IS's biggest attack for years Being an Islamic State leader is not what it used to be. The death of the latest IS supremo, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, far from the heartland of the terror group's rise in Iraq in a frugal home in the back blocks of Syria, is another painful blow to an organisation that only five years ago held significant territory in both countries and cast a shadow across an entire region. Its slide ever since has been dramatic. Unable to hold land, its old guard wiped out, its finances shredded and rank and file depleted, IS looks – at face value – like a group that has had its day. And yet it still lurks amid the rubble of both countries, where it is slowly yet assuredly stirring. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand parrot steals camera and films airborne escape – video Posted: 04 Feb 2022 03:41 AM PST A mischievous parrot swiped a family's GoPro at Fiordland National Park in New Zealand - capturing some magnificent footage as it took flight with its loot. Aotearoa's native alpine parrot species, the kea, is known for its curious and mischievous nature – and for swiping wallets, jewellery, packed lunches, windscreen wipers and other valuables from unsuspecting tourists and visitors. Alexandra Verheul, from Dunedin, had been hiking the Kepler Track with her family when the bird seized its opportunity. The device had been set down on a balcony at their hut, and was quickly nabbed by the kea. It immediately took flight, all the while filming its glorious getaway and its brief frenzied attack on the camera. Continue reading... |
| Incredible images from the Budapest Foto Awards 2021 – in pictures Posted: 03 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST A look at a selection of the winning images from the Budapest International Foto Awards – a platform for photographers from all levels and genres to share their best images with the creative community in Hungary and eastern Europe Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden confirms death of Islamic State leader after US raid in Syria – video Posted: 03 Feb 2022 09:19 AM PST Biden commended the US military for its overnight raid in north-west Syria that resulted in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the Islamic State leader and one of the world's most wanted men. The US president said the operation sent a strong message to terrorists around the world: 'We will come after you and find you'
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| Footage shows aftermath of US raid on house of Islamic State leader – video Posted: 03 Feb 2022 07:32 AM PST The leader of Islamic State has been killed during an overnight raid by US special forces in north-west Syria. Drone footage shows the aftermath of a pre-dawn attack on a property in the village of Atme, just south of the Turkish border, that led to up to 13 casualties. A senior US administration official said Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi detonated a bomb at the beginning of the operation that killed him and members of his family.
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| New Zealand to end quarantine and reopen borders – video Posted: 02 Feb 2022 05:10 PM PST New Zealand's government has said it will end its quarantine requirements and reopen its borders, a change sought by thousands of citizens abroad who have endured long waits to return home. Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said she knows many people associate the border controls with heartache but they have undeniably saved lives. 'There is no question that for New Zealand, it has been one of the hardest parts of the pandemic," she said. "But the reason that it is right up there as one of the toughest things we have experienced is, in part, because large-scale loss of life is not.' Continue reading... |
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