Parts of northern England face new restrictions – as it happened

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Spain reports 1,229 new infections; France rules out full lockdown despite rise in cases; Japan sees record high for new cases for second day in a row. This blog is now closed. Stay up to date on our new blog below

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And finally... just minutes before the new restrictions come into force, the Department of Health has finally posted some more details of the rules on its website.

German economy in sharpest decline since 1970, as markets await US GDP – business live

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

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Here in Britain, roughly one in three furloughed workers returned to work in the first two weeks of July, when pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels reopened, official data from the Office for National Statistics showed today.

Businesses surveyed between 29 June and 12 July said 7% of their staff had returned from furlough within the past fortnight, while 17% remained on leave. The government-funded job retention scheme pays 80% of their salaries and covers more than 9 million people at the moment, about a third of the private-sector workforce. But it will be scaled back from Saturday and come to an end on 31 October.

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Here is our full story on Airbus. The Toulouse-based planemaker has been hit hard by the collapse in air travel, and received only eight new orders between April and June, compared with 290 in the first quarter.

‘I can see the despair on their faces’: Lebanon’s economy unravels

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Prices of most goods have nearly tripled and the value of the national currency is plummeting

From her wedding dress shop in the impoverished northern Lebanese town of Akkar, Suzanne Hammoud has been selling bridal gowns for more than 15 years. She has revelled in her customers’ excitement as their weddings approached, and often stayed in touch as their lives progressed, sometimes making outfits for their children.

But this year, Hammoud has become more of a buyer than a seller of dresses. Sales racks are full of gowns she has bought back from families who have no other means of income left, except for selling their memories.

Holocaust survivor launches legal claim against German railway

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Salo Muller secured €50m from Dutch railway for transporting people to Nazi camps

A Holocaust survivor who successfully campaigned for the Dutch railway to pay compensation for transporting people to the Nazi concentration camps has tabled a legal claim against the German state over the wartime role of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

Salo Muller, 84, whose parents were taken by rail from Amsterdam to the Dutch transit camp Westerbork, and on to their deaths at Auschwitz, is demanding an apology and financial recompense for about 500 Dutch survivors and about 5,500 next of kin.

‘I was shielded from my history’: the changes young black Britons are calling for

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Exclusive: from schools to policing, 50 people share their experiences of growing up in the UK

Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK and across the world, the Guardian interviewed 50 young black Britons, many of whom have been at the heart of the recent anti-racism protests, to ask what changes they would like to see in their lifetime.

Three demands came up repeatedly: decolonising the curriculum; divesting funds away from police forces in favour of a public health-focused approach to crime; and better representation of black Britons across a wider section of society.

How Trump is emboldening other countries’ ‘bad behavior’ on the climate crisis

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Global voices in the crisis say a US exit from the Paris agreement is damaging, but the fact no other country is leaving shows it can survive this ‘ultimate stress test’

The origins of the world’s historic agreement to tackle climate change, in Paris in 2015, have some familiar themes. Back in 2007, there was a Republican president in the White House who had long been hostile to any action on climate change.

George W Bush had refused to give US backing to a new global roadmap on the climate.

Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to become members-only hotel

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Celebrity hangout will allow select group to own shares in ‘world’s best real estate’

The Chateau Marmont, a Hollywood hotspot and hangout for nearly a century, will be converted into a members-only hotel over the next year.

The owner, André Balazs, confirmed his plans to turn the 91-year-old building into a hotel at which a select group of members could buy into “a piece of a portfolio of the best real estate in the world”, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A dollar for sex: Venezuela’s women tricked and trafficked

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Women attempting to flee the country’s economic collapse are in desperate straits, stranded at borders and forced into sex work, say NGOs

The family had nothing at home, says mother of six Luisa Hernández, 30, from Zulia state, Venezuela. “To see your children grow up without food, without anything, is unbearable.

“Eating from rubbish bins to survive was no life, so we left. But, now with the pandemic, we are in limbo, we are stuck in Colombia, and hungry again. We have gone from one crisis to another.”

Yazidi children and rape victims ‘left abandoned’ after Isis captivity – report

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

Amnesty calls for action to help victims overcome trauma, as families return home to landscape littered with landmines

Child survivors of Islamic State captivity and their families have been left to fend for themselves when dealing with lasting trauma and health complications, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Almost 2,000 Yazidi children living in the Kurdish regional government area have been “effectively abandoned”, according to a new report highlighting their struggles to recover from the violence inflicted by Isis.

Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Admin

New centre in Greek city will be lifeline for small community, mostly descendants of Iberian exiles

Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the small community of Sephardic Jews that lives on in the Greek city of Thessaloniki is looking to its past to help safeguard its future.

On Tuesday, Thessaloniki’s Jewish community signed a deal with the Spanish government’s Instituto Cervantes to create a small centre where people will be taught modern Spanish while also learning about Sephardic culture and the exiles’ still-spoken language, Ladino.

It’s time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting | Michael Mann

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Individual efforts are important, but we need collective action and systemic change. And we can only get that at the ballot

In a world with so many problems, it’s easy to feel helpless. And particularly right now in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, quite alone. But even as we practice social distancing, we have an opportunity to work together to solve the greatest problem that humanity faces. No, I’m not talking about coronavirus. I’m talking about climate change.

UK close to securing post-Brexit ‘continuity’ trade deal with Japan

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Both sides seeking deal to secure continuous trade once Brexit implemented on 1 January

The UK is close to sealing a “continuity” trade deal with Japan that will mirror that of the EU pact that Britain will no longer be part of next January.

But in order to strike an agreement in time for it to be ratified by the Japanese parliament, the international trade secretary, Liz Truss, has had to drop her ambitions for preferential treatment for British food exports.

Up to 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers stranded in Russia

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Exclusive: closure of borders means biological parents from other countries have not been able to meet their children

As many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families have been left stranded in the country by the coronavirus pandemic and closure of international borders, the Guardian has been told.

The babies, some born as far back as February, are being cared for mainly by hired caregivers in rented apartments in Moscow, St Petersburg, and other Russian cities.

Iran arms sales: US struggles to win support for extension of UN ban

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

European nations fear extension of arms sale ban would result in Iran leaving 2015 nuclear deal

The US may be forced to accept a UN code of conduct restricting conventional arms sales to Iran, since it is struggling to win unanimous support at the UN security council for a formal extension of the existing UN ban, which expires in October.

European nations fear a formal extension of the ban would result in Iran leaving the nuclear deal.

Democrats introduce bill to repeal anti-abortion rule for US overseas aid

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Critics of the Helms amendment, which currently prevents the use of aid to fund abortion services abroad, say it is ‘deeply rooted in racism’

The first bill to repeal a US law preventing aid from funding abortion services overseas was introduced to congress on Wednesday.

Democratic congressswoman Jan Schakowsky said the Helms amendment, a policy introduced in 1973, was “deeply rooted in racism” and must be replaced to allow US money to be used to support safe abortion services worldwide.

Germany’s Covid-19 fears grow over ‘reckless’ partygoers

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Authorities warn of rise in cases after shocking footage of young revellers in Spain and Bulgaria

Young Germans partying abroad on Europe’s beaches and ignoring physical distancing rules are becoming an increasing cause of concern at home, as coronavirus cases continue to rise across the world.

Following widespread reports earlier this month of German tourists revelling on the Spanish island of Mallorca, bars and clubs on the infamous “Bier Straße” were forced by local authorities to close.

Gisèle Halimi, trailblazing French feminist MP and lawyer, dies aged 93

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Instrumental in decriminalising abortion in France, Halimi spent her life fighting for women’s rights

The Tunisian-born French feminist MP and lawyer Gisèle Halimi, described as a “trailblazer” and a “rebel”, has died one day after her 93rd birthday.

Halimi was instrumental in the decriminalisation of abortion in France and spent her life fighting for women’s rights. “Injustice is physically intolerable to me. All my life can be summed up with that,” she once said.

Young, British & Black: the voices behind the UK’s anti-racism protests

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

The death of George Floyd in the US sparked the UK’s biggest anti-racism protests in centuries. We spoke to 50 young people at the heart of these rallies

Vietnam on high alert as coronavirus cases detected in major cities

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

First local case in three months reported over the weekend in holiday spot of Da Nang

Vietnam is on high alert and bracing for a rise in coronavirus cases, after local media reported that infections have been detected in the capital, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the Central Highlands region.

The country’s prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phu warned on Wednesday that every province and every city was at risk, adding that the new “wave” appeared to be different to that seen in Vietnam earlier this year.

Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Admin

Actor says when he was younger he wasn’t told Palestinians lived on land that became the Jewish state

Seth Rogen has said he was “fed a huge amount of lies about Israel” as a young Jewish person, stoking controversy around the country’s sometimes fraught relationship with many North American Jews.

The Canadian-US actor, who attended Jewish camp and whose parents met on a kibbutz in Israel, said the fact that the Jewish state was created on land where Palestinians were living had always been omitted.

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Parts of northern England face new restrictions – as it happened

German economy in sharpest decline since 1970, as markets await US GDP – business live

‘I can see the despair on their faces’: Lebanon’s economy unravels

Holocaust survivor launches legal claim against German railway

‘I was shielded from my history’: the changes young black Britons are calling for

How Trump is emboldening other countries’ ‘bad behavior’ on the climate crisis

Chateau Marmont in Hollywood to become members-only hotel

A dollar for sex: Venezuela’s women tricked and trafficked

Yazidi children and rape victims ‘left abandoned’ after Isis captivity – report

Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’

It’s time for America to reassert climate leadership. It starts with voting | Michael Mann

UK close to securing post-Brexit ‘continuity’ trade deal with Japan

Up to 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers stranded in Russia

Iran arms sales: US struggles to win support for extension of UN ban

Democrats introduce bill to repeal anti-abortion rule for US overseas aid

Germany’s Covid-19 fears grow over ‘reckless’ partygoers

Gisèle Halimi, trailblazing French feminist MP and lawyer, dies aged 93

Young, British & Black: the voices behind the UK’s anti-racism protests

Vietnam on high alert as coronavirus cases detected in major cities

Seth Rogen: ‘I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel’