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Allegra Stratton has stepped down as the government’s spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit after footage emerged of her joking about a party at Downing Street during the peak of lockdown rules in December last year.
Boris Johnson told a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday that Stratton had been an “outstanding spokeswoman … I am very sorry to lose her”. But he added: “I take responsibility for everything that happens in this government and I have throughout the pandemic.”
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Allegra Stratton has stepped down as the government’s spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit after footage emerged of her joking about a party at Downing Street during the peak of lockdown rules in December last year.
Boris Johnson told a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday that Stratton had been an “outstanding spokeswoman … I am very sorry to lose her”. But he added: “I take responsibility for everything that happens in this government and I have throughout the pandemic.”
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Boris Johnson rushed forward new Covid restrictions amid fears of an exponential rise in the Omicron variant, as his government was engulfed in a crisis of credibility sparked by the Christmas party scandal.
With government experts warning of 10 UK Omicron infections currently rising to 1m by the end of the month and up to 2,000 hospital admissions a day, Johnson insisted now was the time to act.
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Boris Johnson rushed forward new Covid restrictions amid fears of an exponential rise in the Omicron variant, as his government was engulfed in a crisis of credibility sparked by the Christmas party scandal.
With government experts warning of 10 UK Omicron infections currently rising to 1m by the end of the month and up to 2,000 hospital admissions a day, Johnson insisted now was the time to act.
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Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph political editor, thinks the timing of such a move would be suspicious.
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Downing Street sources are saying this morning that “no decisions have been made” on a move to plan B. But, frankly, an FT story carries more credibility in the Westminster media village.
Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph political editor, thinks the timing of such a move would be suspicious.
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The Omicron variant of Covid-19 has now been reported in 57 countries and continues to spread rapidly in South Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
But the latest epidemiological report from WHO says given the Delta variant remains dominant, particularly in Europe and the US, it is still too early to draw any conclusions about the global impact of Omicron.
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The Omicron variant of Covid-19 has now been reported in 57 countries and continues to spread rapidly in South Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
But the latest epidemiological report from WHO says given the Delta variant remains dominant, particularly in Europe and the US, it is still too early to draw any conclusions about the global impact of Omicron.
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Finland’s prime minister has come under sustained criticism after it was revealed she stayed out dancing until the early hours on the weekend despite knowing she had been exposed to Covid-19.
Sanna Marin, 36, apologised on Monday after a gossip magazine published photos of her at a Helsinki nightclub on Saturday night until almost four in the morning, hours after her foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, tested positive for coronavirus.
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Finland’s prime minister has come under sustained criticism after it was revealed she stayed out dancing until the early hours on the weekend despite knowing she had been exposed to Covid-19.
Sanna Marin, 36, apologised on Monday after a gossip magazine published photos of her at a Helsinki nightclub on Saturday night until almost four in the morning, hours after her foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, tested positive for coronavirus.
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New Zealand has announced it will outlaw smoking for the next generation, so that those who are aged 14 and under today will never be legally able to buy tobacco.
New legislation means the legal smoking age will increase every year, to create a smoke-free generation of New Zealanders, associate health minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Legislation will mean people currently aged 14 and under will never be able to legally purchase tobacco
New Zealand has announced it will outlaw smoking for the next generation, so that those who are aged 14 and under today will never be legally able to buy tobacco.
New legislation means the legal smoking age will increase every year, to create a smoke-free generation of New Zealanders, associate health minister Dr Ayesha Verrall said on Thursday.
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Joe Biden has said that he is not considering sending US troops to defend Ukraine in response to a Russian military buildup on the country’s borders.
“That is not on the table,” he told reporters on Wednesday, one day after speaking directly with Vladimir Putin in an effort to avert a military crisis.
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Joe Biden has said that he is not considering sending US troops to defend Ukraine in response to a Russian military buildup on the country’s borders.
“That is not on the table,” he told reporters on Wednesday, one day after speaking directly with Vladimir Putin in an effort to avert a military crisis.
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In a dramatic rescue attempt on Wednesday, a US Coast Guard diver braved the frigid rapids where a car had become submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, only to find it was too late to rescue the person trapped inside.
The diver was lowered from a hovering helicopter, climbed into the car and pulled out the body of its lone occupant, a woman in her 60s, officials from New York’s state park police said.
Continue reading...", + "content": "A diver was lowered from a helicopter to pull the occupant from a car found in the frigid rapids at the brink of American Falls
In a dramatic rescue attempt on Wednesday, a US Coast Guard diver braved the frigid rapids where a car had become submerged in water near the brink of Niagara Falls, only to find it was too late to rescue the person trapped inside.
The diver was lowered from a hovering helicopter, climbed into the car and pulled out the body of its lone occupant, a woman in her 60s, officials from New York’s state park police said.
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A year of post-Brexit bickering has left the French and the British feeling significantly less well disposed towards each other, a poll shows.
After ill-tempered exchanges over everything from fishing to submarines and Covid travel rules to the Northern Ireland protocol, the YouGov poll found that favourable opinions of the British had slid in France and other EU countries.
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A year of post-Brexit bickering has left the French and the British feeling significantly less well disposed towards each other, a poll shows.
After ill-tempered exchanges over everything from fishing to submarines and Covid travel rules to the Northern Ireland protocol, the YouGov poll found that favourable opinions of the British had slid in France and other EU countries.
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Myanmar soldiers rounded up and killed 11 people in a village, shooting and then setting them on fire, according to people in the area and local media reports.
Photos and a video purporting to show charred corpses in Don Taw village in the Sagaing region of Myanmar’s north-west circulated on Tuesday while outrage spread on social media.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Outrage spreads on social media over alleged massacre of people rounded up by government troops in Sagaing region
Myanmar soldiers rounded up and killed 11 people in a village, shooting and then setting them on fire, according to people in the area and local media reports.
Photos and a video purporting to show charred corpses in Don Taw village in the Sagaing region of Myanmar’s north-west circulated on Tuesday while outrage spread on social media.
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The German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was a member of the Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document – revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own statements about his father’s military service during the second world war.
German officials have confirmed that an ID card in the country’s federal archive shows that an 18-year-old named Michael Kast joined the National Socialist German Workers’ party, or NSDAP, in September 1942, at the height of Hitler’s war on the Soviet Union.
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The German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was a member of the Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document – revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own statements about his father’s military service during the second world war.
German officials have confirmed that an ID card in the country’s federal archive shows that an 18-year-old named Michael Kast joined the National Socialist German Workers’ party, or NSDAP, in September 1942, at the height of Hitler’s war on the Soviet Union.
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Cartoons urging New Caledonians to vote no to independence from France in this weekend’s referendum have been accused of “profound racism and ridicule towards Pacific Islanders, especially the [indigenous] Kanak people”, in a legal submission lodged with France’s highest judicial body.
An urgent appeal has been lodged against the broadcast of the animations, which have been running on television in New Caledonia and online, with the Council of State in France.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Urgent appeal lodged to stop the broadcast of cartoons calling on New Caledonians to vote against independence from France in this weekend’s referendum
Cartoons urging New Caledonians to vote no to independence from France in this weekend’s referendum have been accused of “profound racism and ridicule towards Pacific Islanders, especially the [indigenous] Kanak people”, in a legal submission lodged with France’s highest judicial body.
An urgent appeal has been lodged against the broadcast of the animations, which have been running on television in New Caledonia and online, with the Council of State in France.
Continue reading...", + "category": "New Caledonia", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/anti-independence-ads-accused-of-profound-racism-against-indigenous-new-caledonians-in-court-action", + "creator": "Helen Fraser", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T03:03:02Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97113,16 +98293,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "debb731c236b25056cf9a748fbab83bc" + "hash": "1fe177e10ec00056602bbd17b9138eed" }, { - "title": "‘Overwhelming’ evidence against Jussie Smollett, says prosecution in closing arguments", - "description": "The Empire actor denies he falsified police reports about the alleged racist and homophobic attack in 2019
Lawyers delivered their closing arguments on Wednesday in Jussie Smollett’s criminal trial where the former Empire actor is facing charges that he lied to Chicago police about an attack in 2019.
Smollett denies the charges.
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Lawyers delivered their closing arguments on Wednesday in Jussie Smollett’s criminal trial where the former Empire actor is facing charges that he lied to Chicago police about an attack in 2019.
Smollett denies the charges.
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Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was among three democracy campaigners convicted of taking part in a banned Tiananmen vigil as the prosecution of multiple activists came to a conclusion.
Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges on Thursday alongside former journalist Gwyneth Ho and prominent rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Former journalist Gwyneth Ho and rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung also found guilty of unlawful assembly charges
Jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was among three democracy campaigners convicted of taking part in a banned Tiananmen vigil as the prosecution of multiple activists came to a conclusion.
Lai, the 74-year-old owner of the now-closed pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty of unlawful assembly charges on Thursday alongside former journalist Gwyneth Ho and prominent rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Hong Kong", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/jimmy-lai-among-three-hong-kong-democracy-activists-convicted-over-tiananmen-vigil", + "creator": "Agence France-Presse", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T03:02:15Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97133,16 +98313,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "a7e07ecd681c8c1803f7dc1d56d84c38" + "hash": "ab750e0bfc23fe67d6ffd6f016ede5e0" }, { - "title": "Spanish village that dropped ‘Kill Jews’ name hit by antisemitic graffiti attack", - "description": "Castrillo Mota de Judíos’ Sephardic centre was among four locations defaced in the ‘cowardly’ attack
The mayor of a Spanish village whose former name was an ugly reminder of the country’s medieval persecution of its Jewish population has vowed to carry on with plans for a Sephardic memory centre despite an antisemitic graffiti attack this week.
Seven years ago, the 52 eligible residents of Castrillo Matajudíos – Camp Kill Jews in English, voted in a referendum to change the village’s name back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which means Jews’ Hill Camp.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Castrillo Mota de Judíos’ Sephardic centre was among four locations defaced in the ‘cowardly’ attack
The mayor of a Spanish village whose former name was an ugly reminder of the country’s medieval persecution of its Jewish population has vowed to carry on with plans for a Sephardic memory centre despite an antisemitic graffiti attack this week.
Seven years ago, the 52 eligible residents of Castrillo Matajudíos – Camp Kill Jews in English, voted in a referendum to change the village’s name back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which means Jews’ Hill Camp.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Antisemitism", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/dec/08/spanish-village-castrillo-mota-de-judios-that-dropped-kill-jews-name-targeted-by-antisemitic-graffiti", - "creator": "Sam Jones in Madrid", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T13:31:47Z", + "title": "Robbie Shakespeare, of Sly and Robbie fame, dies at age 68", + "description": "The Jamaican Grammy-winning bassist was part of the duo with Sly Dunbar and worked with such artists as Mick Jagger and Grace Jones
Robbie Shakespeare, acclaimed bassist and record producer, has died at the age of 68. The Jamaican artist was part of the duo Sly and Robbie with Sly Dunbar.
According to The Jamaica Gleaner, Shakespeare had recently undergone surgery related to his kidneys. He had been in hospital in Florida.
Continue reading...", + "content": "The Jamaican Grammy-winning bassist was part of the duo with Sly Dunbar and worked with such artists as Mick Jagger and Grace Jones
Robbie Shakespeare, acclaimed bassist and record producer, has died at the age of 68. The Jamaican artist was part of the duo Sly and Robbie with Sly Dunbar.
According to The Jamaica Gleaner, Shakespeare had recently undergone surgery related to his kidneys. He had been in hospital in Florida.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Music", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/08/robbie-shakespeare-sly-and-robbie-dies", + "creator": "Benjamin Lee", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T23:42:09Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97153,16 +98333,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "20eceb14bfe39062c1f1502fec482ccc" + "hash": "fc47c10a55f2f0e4558e3d7dca88303c" }, { - "title": "Sienna Miller says Sun used ‘illegal means’ to find out pregnancy", - "description": "Actor tells high court about her view of how details were discovered, which the publisher denies
Sienna Miller believes details of her 2005 pregnancy were obtained by the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, using “blatantly unlawful means”, a court has heard. Miller also believes phone hacking was practised by journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid newspaper.
“I was told at the end of July 2005, by my friend and publicist, that Rebekah Brooks had found out that I was pregnant,” said Miller, in an excerpt from a draft statement read out by her lawyer at the high court.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Actor tells high court about her view of how details were discovered, which the publisher denies
Sienna Miller believes details of her 2005 pregnancy were obtained by the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, using “blatantly unlawful means”, a court has heard. Miller also believes phone hacking was practised by journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid newspaper.
“I was told at the end of July 2005, by my friend and publicist, that Rebekah Brooks had found out that I was pregnant,” said Miller, in an excerpt from a draft statement read out by her lawyer at the high court.
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In the closing stages of the group stage game, the man entered the field and briefly held up play before he was sent sprawling as the Australia captain dropped her shoulder and ran into him.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Chelsea striker Sam Kerr was booked after barging into a pitch invader and knocking him to the ground during the Blues’ Champions League clash with Juventus at Kingsmeadow.
In the closing stages of the group stage game, the man entered the field and briefly held up play before he was sent sprawling as the Australia captain dropped her shoulder and ran into him.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Sam Kerr", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/09/sam-kerr-knocks-pitch-invader-to-ground-during-champions-league-match", + "creator": "Guardian sport", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T01:23:49Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97173,16 +98353,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "723f4b22d0e485cea5abd7108a4eb60a" + "hash": "c9b2ec353dbfe4a71c6e67627aca7840" }, { - "title": "Three doses of Pfizer vaccine likely to protect against Omicron infection, tests suggest", - "description": "Initial findings indicate stark reduction in protection against new Covid variant from two vaccine doses
Three doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are likely to protect against infection with the Omicron variant but two doses may not, according to laboratory data that will increase pressure to speed up booster programmes.
Tests using antibodies in blood samples have given some of the first insights into how far Omicron escapes immunity, showing a stark drop-off in the predicted protection against infection or any type of disease for people who have had two doses. The findings suggest that, for Omicron, Pfizer/BioNTech should now be viewed as a “three-dose vaccine”.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Initial findings indicate stark reduction in protection against new Covid variant from two vaccine doses
Three doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are likely to protect against infection with the Omicron variant but two doses may not, according to laboratory data that will increase pressure to speed up booster programmes.
Tests using antibodies in blood samples have given some of the first insights into how far Omicron escapes immunity, showing a stark drop-off in the predicted protection against infection or any type of disease for people who have had two doses. The findings suggest that, for Omicron, Pfizer/BioNTech should now be viewed as a “three-dose vaccine”.
Continue reading...", + "title": "Covid news live: England moves to ‘plan B’; three Pfizer shots can ‘neutralise’ Omicron, lab tests show", + "description": "British prime minister Boris Johnson has rushed forward new Covid restrictions amid fears of an exponential rise in the Omicron variant; Pfizer says third jab increases antibodies by factor of 25
Cuba has detected its first case of the Omicron Covid variant, according to Cuban state media agency ACN.
The case was identified in a person who had travelled from Mozambique.
Continue reading...", + "content": "British prime minister Boris Johnson has rushed forward new Covid restrictions amid fears of an exponential rise in the Omicron variant; Pfizer says third jab increases antibodies by factor of 25
Cuba has detected its first case of the Omicron Covid variant, according to Cuban state media agency ACN.
The case was identified in a person who had travelled from Mozambique.
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On 23 December last year, the day after Downing Street aides were recorded laughing about how they could pretend that a party at No 10 was a “cheese and wine” gathering, a large contingent of police officers arrived at the London Tavern pub in Hackney, east London. James Kearns, the owner, was hosting Christmas drinks for workers at a scaffolding company he also runs.
“There were 15 of us,” he said on Wednesday. “About 20 of the police showed up, absolutely hammering on the doors. We all hid in the toilets, but they found us.” This week, the case went before a magistrate. “And we’ve all been fined £100 each.”
Continue reading...", - "content": "A grieving daughter and a publican prosecuted for breaching rules are among those furious at apparent flouting of rules
On 23 December last year, the day after Downing Street aides were recorded laughing about how they could pretend that a party at No 10 was a “cheese and wine” gathering, a large contingent of police officers arrived at the London Tavern pub in Hackney, east London. James Kearns, the owner, was hosting Christmas drinks for workers at a scaffolding company he also runs.
“There were 15 of us,” he said on Wednesday. “About 20 of the police showed up, absolutely hammering on the doors. We all hid in the toilets, but they found us.” This week, the case went before a magistrate. “And we’ve all been fined £100 each.”
Continue reading...", + "title": "Barnaby Joyce, Australia’s deputy PM, tests positive for Covid while visiting US", + "description": "Nationals leader is experiencing mild symptoms and will remain in isolation until further advice
Australia’s deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, has tested positive to Covid-19 while on a visit to the United States.
The government says Joyce – who was in London earlier this week and met with the British justice secretary, Dominic Raab, and the Australian high commissioner to the UK, George Brandis – will isolate in the US until it is safe for him to return to Australia.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Nationals leader is experiencing mild symptoms and will remain in isolation until further advice
Australia’s deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, has tested positive to Covid-19 while on a visit to the United States.
The government says Joyce – who was in London earlier this week and met with the British justice secretary, Dominic Raab, and the Australian high commissioner to the UK, George Brandis – will isolate in the US until it is safe for him to return to Australia.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Barnaby Joyce", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/09/barnaby-joyce-australia-deputy-pm-prime-minister-tests-positive-covid-coronavirus", + "creator": "Daniel Hurst", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T23:05:08Z", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "en", + "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", + "feed": "The Guardian", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "6975ce6ef23ca77a4051dcb713956523" + }, + { + "title": "Finnish PM apologises for staying out clubbing despite Covid exposure", + "description": "Sanna Marin says she should have checked guidance given to her after her foreign minister tested positive
Finland’s prime minister has come under sustained criticism after it was revealed she stayed out dancing until the early hours on the weekend despite knowing she had been exposed to Covid-19.
Sanna Marin, 36, apologised on Monday after a gossip magazine published photos of her at a Helsinki nightclub on Saturday night until almost four in the morning, hours after her foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, tested positive for coronavirus.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Sanna Marin says she should have checked guidance given to her after her foreign minister tested positive
Finland’s prime minister has come under sustained criticism after it was revealed she stayed out dancing until the early hours on the weekend despite knowing she had been exposed to Covid-19.
Sanna Marin, 36, apologised on Monday after a gossip magazine published photos of her at a Helsinki nightclub on Saturday night until almost four in the morning, hours after her foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, tested positive for coronavirus.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Finland", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/finnish-pm-apologises-for-staying-out-clubbing-despite-covid-exposure", + "creator": "Agence France-Presse", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T17:49:14Z", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "en", + "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", + "feed": "The Guardian", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "f5f5db60b8d3febb11deda57943fea8e" + }, + { + "title": "Three doses of Pfizer vaccine likely to protect against Omicron infection, tests suggest", + "description": "Initial findings indicate stark reduction in protection against new Covid variant from two vaccine doses
Three doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are likely to protect against infection with the Omicron variant but two doses may not, according to laboratory data that will increase pressure to speed up booster programmes.
Tests using antibodies in blood samples have given some of the first insights into how far Omicron escapes immunity, showing a stark drop-off in the predicted protection against infection or any type of disease for people who have had two doses. The findings suggest that, for Omicron, Pfizer/BioNTech should now be viewed as a “three-dose vaccine”.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Initial findings indicate stark reduction in protection against new Covid variant from two vaccine doses
Three doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine are likely to protect against infection with the Omicron variant but two doses may not, according to laboratory data that will increase pressure to speed up booster programmes.
Tests using antibodies in blood samples have given some of the first insights into how far Omicron escapes immunity, showing a stark drop-off in the predicted protection against infection or any type of disease for people who have had two doses. The findings suggest that, for Omicron, Pfizer/BioNTech should now be viewed as a “three-dose vaccine”.
Continue reading...", "category": "Coronavirus", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/they-just-didnt-care-woman-who-lost-her-mum-on-day-of-no-10-party", - "creator": "Archie Bland", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T12:07:15Z", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/omicron-can-partially-evade-covid-vaccine-protection-study-finds", + "creator": "Hannah Devlin Science correspondent", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T22:16:39Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97213,16 +98433,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "64fc5e1594f6d2bfb709e78959051cef" + "hash": "f05d568ce44f464fc2b8ab51f4c52bab" }, { - "title": "Anger as Jair Bolsonaro to allow unvaccinated visitors into Brazil", - "description": "There are fears the decision will reverse the gains made by a successful vaccination campaign
The Brazilian government has been accused of seeking to turn the South American country into a haven for unvaccinated tourists after it shunned calls – including from its own health regulator – to demand proof of vaccination from visitors.
The decision – announced on Tuesday by the health minister, Marcelo Queiroga – sparked anger in a nation that has lost more than 615,000 lives to a Covid outbreak the president, Jair Bolsonaro, stands accused of catastrophically mishandling.
Continue reading...", - "content": "There are fears the decision will reverse the gains made by a successful vaccination campaign
The Brazilian government has been accused of seeking to turn the South American country into a haven for unvaccinated tourists after it shunned calls – including from its own health regulator – to demand proof of vaccination from visitors.
The decision – announced on Tuesday by the health minister, Marcelo Queiroga – sparked anger in a nation that has lost more than 615,000 lives to a Covid outbreak the president, Jair Bolsonaro, stands accused of catastrophically mishandling.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Brazil", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/anger-as-jair-bolsonaro-to-allow-unvaccinated-visitors-into-brazil", - "creator": "Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T16:01:29Z", + "title": "‘Give me my baby’: an Indian woman’s fight to reclaim her son after adoption without consent", + "description": "Anupama S Chandran’s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the Dalit caste
Through the rains and steamy heat of November, day and night, Anupama S Chandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat. She refused to eat, drink or be moved. Her single demand was written on a placard: “Give me my baby.”
The story of Chandran’s fight to get back her child, who was snatched from her by her own family days after he was born and put up for adoption without her knowledge, is one that has been greeted with both horror and a sad familiarity in India.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Anupama S Chandran’s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the Dalit caste
Through the rains and steamy heat of November, day and night, Anupama S Chandran sat by the gates of the Kerala state secretariat. She refused to eat, drink or be moved. Her single demand was written on a placard: “Give me my baby.”
The story of Chandran’s fight to get back her child, who was snatched from her by her own family days after he was born and put up for adoption without her knowledge, is one that has been greeted with both horror and a sad familiarity in India.
Continue reading...", + "category": "India", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/give-me-my-baby-an-indian-womans-fight-to-reclaim-her-son-after-adoption-without-consent", + "creator": "Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T05:00:02Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97233,7 +98453,7 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "062f384165c4a8cf73eea312e6e83ebc" + "hash": "26bae58b5cb9e782a65773d90d6182e8" }, { "title": "Why is there a row in the UK about Boris Johnson and Christmas parties?", @@ -97276,13 +98496,13 @@ "hash": "e1802c060d0f06d723c3099eab11c28a" }, { - "title": "60s psych-rockers the Electric Prunes: ‘We couldn’t sit around stoned!’", - "description": "Discovered in an LA garage, the band rode a psychedelic wave into Easy Rider and a trippy Latin mass – even if they didn’t actually take acid. As a box set revives the music, their lead singer looks back
“I guess I’m part of history,” says James Lowe, lead singer of the Electric Prunes, of the band’s oeuvre being gathered into a box set this month. “It suggests the idea we had for the band was viable – at least for a while.”
Indeed, the Los Angeles quintet were, if only briefly, one of psychedelic rock’s pioneers. Ironically, as Lowe confirms, the Prunes weren’t particularly interested in hallucinogenic drugs – “we had no support crew, no tour bus; we couldn’t sit around stoned” – and no Prune possessed the dark charisma of fellow LA psychedelic shamans Arthur Lee or Jim Morrison. Initially a surf-rock outfit, a passing real-estate agent heard the band rehearsing in a garage and suggested a friend of hers might be interested in them. Lowe gave his phone number but thought nothing of it, because “everyone in LA knows ‘someone’ in the film or music industry”.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Discovered in an LA garage, the band rode a psychedelic wave into Easy Rider and a trippy Latin mass – even if they didn’t actually take acid. As a box set revives the music, their lead singer looks back
“I guess I’m part of history,” says James Lowe, lead singer of the Electric Prunes, of the band’s oeuvre being gathered into a box set this month. “It suggests the idea we had for the band was viable – at least for a while.”
Indeed, the Los Angeles quintet were, if only briefly, one of psychedelic rock’s pioneers. Ironically, as Lowe confirms, the Prunes weren’t particularly interested in hallucinogenic drugs – “we had no support crew, no tour bus; we couldn’t sit around stoned” – and no Prune possessed the dark charisma of fellow LA psychedelic shamans Arthur Lee or Jim Morrison. Initially a surf-rock outfit, a passing real-estate agent heard the band rehearsing in a garage and suggested a friend of hers might be interested in them. Lowe gave his phone number but thought nothing of it, because “everyone in LA knows ‘someone’ in the film or music industry”.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Psychedelia", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/08/60s-psych-rockers-the-electric-prunes-we-couldnt-sit-around-stoned", - "creator": "Garth Cartwright", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T16:08:47Z", + "title": "White Island anniversary passes quietly, with healing – and reckoning", + "description": "Two years ago New Zealand’s Whakaari volcano eruption killed 22 people and changed the lives of many others forever
On a pristine day two years ago, a group of mostly international day-trippers boarded boats and chugged over to Whakaari/White Island, a small active volcano and popular tourist destination 48km off New Zealand’s east coast. The guests roamed the moon-like landscape, observing the strangeness of a bubbling, living rock. But below the surface, pressure was building.
At 2.11pm, while 47 people were on the island, the volcano erupted, spewing a mushroom cloud of steam, gases, rock and ash into the air. The eruption killed 22 people, seriously injured 25 and changed the lives of many families forever. It became the country’s deadliest volcanic disaster since the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Two years ago New Zealand’s Whakaari volcano eruption killed 22 people and changed the lives of many others forever
On a pristine day two years ago, a group of mostly international day-trippers boarded boats and chugged over to Whakaari/White Island, a small active volcano and popular tourist destination 48km off New Zealand’s east coast. The guests roamed the moon-like landscape, observing the strangeness of a bubbling, living rock. But below the surface, pressure was building.
At 2.11pm, while 47 people were on the island, the volcano erupted, spewing a mushroom cloud of steam, gases, rock and ash into the air. The eruption killed 22 people, seriously injured 25 and changed the lives of many families forever. It became the country’s deadliest volcanic disaster since the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.
Continue reading...", + "category": "White Island volcano", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/09/white-island-anniversary-passes-quietly-with-healing-and-reckoning-far-from-over", + "creator": "Eva Corlett in Wellington", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T23:26:39Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97293,16 +98513,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "b9f296b84dfd086bdb30fd5532febfc6" + "hash": "34c58714c87ecc936cd5bf51d440594e" }, { - "title": "Cornish town with 1,440 residents seeks to become UK’s smallest city", - "description": "Marazion, opposite St Michael’s Mount, faces stiff opposition from larger areas in contest for city status
It may not boast a cathedral, a university or a major sports team – the sort of features often associated with a typical British metropolis. But the town of Marazion (population 1,440), perched prettily on the south coast of Cornwall, has nevertheless launched a bold campaign for city status.
Marazion, which does have a couple of churches, a primary school and rowing and sailing clubs, would become the smallest and most southerly city if its proposal is accepted.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Marazion, opposite St Michael’s Mount, faces stiff opposition from larger areas in contest for city status
It may not boast a cathedral, a university or a major sports team – the sort of features often associated with a typical British metropolis. But the town of Marazion (population 1,440), perched prettily on the south coast of Cornwall, has nevertheless launched a bold campaign for city status.
Marazion, which does have a couple of churches, a primary school and rowing and sailing clubs, would become the smallest and most southerly city if its proposal is accepted.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Cornwall", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/08/marazion-cornish-town-with-1440-residents-seeks-to-become-the-uks-smallest-city", - "creator": "Steven Morris", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T19:53:06Z", + "title": "Nasa’s new space telescope and its search for extraterrestrial life | podcast", + "description": "On 22 December, if all goes to plan, the £7.5bn James Webb space telescope (JWST) will be blasted into space on top of a giant European Ariane 5 rocket. As it travels to its final destination – a point about a million miles away – it will begin to unfold its gold, honeycombed mirror; a vast light-catching bucket that could give us a view of the universe deeper and more sensitive than we’ve ever had before.
JWST could also reveal clues about possible life-supporting planets inside our galaxy. One astronomer who will be eagerly deciphering those clues is Prof Beth Biller, who joined Guardian science editor Ian Sample this week.
Archive: CNBC, Dr Becky, Launch Pad Astronomy
Continue reading...", + "content": "On 22 December, if all goes to plan, the £7.5bn James Webb space telescope (JWST) will be blasted into space on top of a giant European Ariane 5 rocket. As it travels to its final destination – a point about a million miles away – it will begin to unfold its gold, honeycombed mirror; a vast light-catching bucket that could give us a view of the universe deeper and more sensitive than we’ve ever had before.
JWST could also reveal clues about possible life-supporting planets inside our galaxy. One astronomer who will be eagerly deciphering those clues is Prof Beth Biller, who joined Guardian science editor Ian Sample this week.
Archive: CNBC, Dr Becky, Launch Pad Astronomy
Continue reading...", + "category": "James Webb space telescope", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2021/dec/09/nasas-new-space-telescope-and-its-search-for-extraterrestrial-life", + "creator": "Produced and presented by Madeleine Finlay with Ian Sample. Sound design by Axel Kacoutié", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T05:00:02Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97313,16 +98533,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "1d171c0411c5db2b94b401273987e003" + "hash": "2f62bc88dbab2e3ef2daf37c8af1cacd" }, { - "title": "Rajan the last ocean-swimming elephant: Jody MacDonald’s best photograph", - "description": "‘He had been used for logging on the Andaman Islands. When I found him, he was 60, living in retirement – and loving his swims’
I lived at sea for 10 years. I co-owned and ran a global kiteboarding expedition business. We’d sail around the world on a 60-foot catamaran, following the trade winds, kiteboarding, surfing and paragliding in remote locations. One night, I watched a Hollywood movie called The Fall, which had a section where an elephant was swimming in tropical blue water. I didn’t know if it was real or a fake Hollywood thing. But I thought: “Man, if that does exist, I’d love to photograph it.”
I searched the internet and found the elephant from the film was living in the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal. When we sailed into the capital, Port Blair, a few months later in 2010, I decided to hop off and try to find this elephant. I found Rajan on Havelock (now Swaraj) Island and spent two weeks with him, learning about his incredible story.
Continue reading...", - "content": "‘He had been used for logging on the Andaman Islands. When I found him, he was 60, living in retirement – and loving his swims’
I lived at sea for 10 years. I co-owned and ran a global kiteboarding expedition business. We’d sail around the world on a 60-foot catamaran, following the trade winds, kiteboarding, surfing and paragliding in remote locations. One night, I watched a Hollywood movie called The Fall, which had a section where an elephant was swimming in tropical blue water. I didn’t know if it was real or a fake Hollywood thing. But I thought: “Man, if that does exist, I’d love to photograph it.”
I searched the internet and found the elephant from the film was living in the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal. When we sailed into the capital, Port Blair, a few months later in 2010, I decided to hop off and try to find this elephant. I found Rajan on Havelock (now Swaraj) Island and spent two weeks with him, learning about his incredible story.
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A year of post-Brexit bickering has left the French and the British feeling significantly less well disposed towards each other, a poll shows.
After ill-tempered exchanges over everything from fishing to submarines and Covid travel rules to the Northern Ireland protocol, the YouGov poll found that favourable opinions of the British had slid in France and other EU countries.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Exclusive: political tensions prompt increase in numbers of French with negative view of Brits and vice versa
A year of post-Brexit bickering has left the French and the British feeling significantly less well disposed towards each other, a poll shows.
After ill-tempered exchanges over everything from fishing to submarines and Covid travel rules to the Northern Ireland protocol, the YouGov poll found that favourable opinions of the British had slid in France and other EU countries.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Brexit", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/dec/08/poll-shows-anglo-french-antipathy-on-rise-amid-post-brexit-bickering", + "creator": "Jon Henley in Paris", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T16:41:56Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97333,16 +98553,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "85560a67457be52a3f20a6756dd2ebc5" + "hash": "e7821d03dcde511306f5f3956431a5c8" }, { - "title": "Mispronounced words: how omicron, cheugy and Billie Eilish tripped us up in 2021", - "description": "The world is divided on how to say the name of the latest Covid-19 variant. But however you pronounce it, we can all agree: it’s not as annoying as someone asking for ‘expresso’
Name: Omicron.
Age: The new and potentially more virulent Covid-19 variant was first detected in South Africa at the end of November. Young, then.
Continue reading...", - "content": "The world is divided on how to say the name of the latest Covid-19 variant. But however you pronounce it, we can all agree: it’s not as annoying as someone asking for ‘expresso’
Name: Omicron.
Age: The new and potentially more virulent Covid-19 variant was first detected in South Africa at the end of November. Young, then.
Continue reading...", + "title": "Recovering from burnout, I’ve become very self-protective. How do I step back into the swim? | Leading questions", + "description": "You’ve done a brave thing by changing your life, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, don’t let that change become its own chore
After years of struggling with a punishing combination of emotional instability and over-work in high pressure jobs, I eventually got sick, dropped out and am finally on the road to recovery, with a new understanding of how to take better care of my mental health and the value of a healthy body.
I’ve been appreciating simple pleasures, good old friends and the benefits of a quiet life, but it’s a particularly daunting time to start stepping back into the swim. Although I’m now aware of people and situations that aren’t good for me, I have become very self-protective – not helped by the pandemic. It’s very easy to decide it’s too crazy and unkind out there.
Continue reading...", + "content": "You’ve done a brave thing by changing your life, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, don’t let that change become its own chore
After years of struggling with a punishing combination of emotional instability and over-work in high pressure jobs, I eventually got sick, dropped out and am finally on the road to recovery, with a new understanding of how to take better care of my mental health and the value of a healthy body.
I’ve been appreciating simple pleasures, good old friends and the benefits of a quiet life, but it’s a particularly daunting time to start stepping back into the swim. Although I’m now aware of people and situations that aren’t good for me, I have become very self-protective – not helped by the pandemic. It’s very easy to decide it’s too crazy and unkind out there.
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A travel company called Black Tomato, in return for a significant sum of money, will drop you in the middle of you know not where, and leave you there. The product is called Get Lost and is surely more evidence that we’ve, well, lost our way.
Which isn’t to say that it’s a daft idea. As a matter of fact, it quite appeals to me. I’m used to feeling psychologically lost – that wouldn’t be much of a holiday – but I’m very rarely physically, geographically lost. And annoying, and even frightening, as it can be, I miss this sensation. I believe it is good for the soul. “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go,” is a line in a Beatles song. How about: “Oh, that magic feeling, where the bloody hell am I?”
Continue reading...", - "content": "In an era of mobile phones, we rarely lose our way - which means we miss out on the joy and relief of finding it again
A travel company called Black Tomato, in return for a significant sum of money, will drop you in the middle of you know not where, and leave you there. The product is called Get Lost and is surely more evidence that we’ve, well, lost our way.
Which isn’t to say that it’s a daft idea. As a matter of fact, it quite appeals to me. I’m used to feeling psychologically lost – that wouldn’t be much of a holiday – but I’m very rarely physically, geographically lost. And annoying, and even frightening, as it can be, I miss this sensation. I believe it is good for the soul. “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go,” is a line in a Beatles song. How about: “Oh, that magic feeling, where the bloody hell am I?”
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The Metropolitan police has said it will not investigate the Downing Street Christmas party widely reported to have been held last year.
In a much awaited statement, the force said it had a policy of not retrospectively investigating alleged breaches of coronavirus laws.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Force cites policy of not investigating past alleged breaches of Covid rules and lack of evidence
The Metropolitan police has said it will not investigate the Downing Street Christmas party widely reported to have been held last year.
In a much awaited statement, the force said it had a policy of not retrospectively investigating alleged breaches of coronavirus laws.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Metropolitan police", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/08/met-police-say-they-will-not-investigate-downing-street-christmas-party", - "creator": "Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T20:35:28Z", + "title": "Wales: 14 schools to add hour a day to help pupils catch up after lockdowns", + "description": "Trial could lead to a longer school day being introduced permanently
A number of schools in Wales are extending their day by an hour to try to help youngsters catch up after Covid lockdowns.
The Welsh government will invest up to £2m on the trial, allowing 14 primaries and secondaries across south Wales to open for groups of children for an extra five hours a week.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Trial could lead to a longer school day being introduced permanently
A number of schools in Wales are extending their day by an hour to try to help youngsters catch up after Covid lockdowns.
The Welsh government will invest up to £2m on the trial, allowing 14 primaries and secondaries across south Wales to open for groups of children for an extra five hours a week.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Wales", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/09/wales-14-schools-to-add-hour-a-day-to-help-pupils-catch-up-after-lockdowns", + "creator": "Steven Morris", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T00:01:02Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97393,16 +98593,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "64b37ba11ea0c4436bde7ee75d002c03" + "hash": "c3234c98fc7c394a45904439ec33bd1b" }, { - "title": "Covid live: UK reports 51,342 new infections; three Pfizer shots can ‘neutralise’ Omicron, lab tests show", + "title": "Covid news: UK reports 51,342 new infections; vaccines protect against new variant – as it happened", "description": "Latest figures come amid concern over spread of Omicron variant; Pfizer says third jab increased antibodies by factor of 25
Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.
South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.
Continue reading...", "content": "Latest figures come amid concern over spread of Omicron variant; Pfizer says third jab increased antibodies by factor of 25
Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.
South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.
Continue reading...", "category": "Coronavirus", "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/dec/08/covid-live-news-south-korea-surge-sparks-hospital-alarm-stealth-omicron-variant-found", "creator": "Tom Ambrose (now); Sarah Marsh, Kevin Rawlinson, Martin Belam and Martin Farrer (earlier)", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T22:32:19Z", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T00:41:33Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97413,16 +98613,16 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "59c0eab48d3f4945a3b328bf4197885b" + "hash": "f439d3bf9921882ffa8d8511f3f34fd4" }, { - "title": "Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest", - "description": "Dozens of animals disqualified after owners manipulate their looks with hormones, fillers and facelifts
Saudi authorities have carried out their biggest crackdown on camel beauty contestants, disqualifying more than 40 “enhanced” camels from the annual pageant, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The camels disqualified in the competition, at the King Abdulaziz camel festival, were judged to have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Dozens of animals disqualified after owners manipulate their looks with hormones, fillers and facelifts
Saudi authorities have carried out their biggest crackdown on camel beauty contestants, disqualifying more than 40 “enhanced” camels from the annual pageant, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The camels disqualified in the competition, at the King Abdulaziz camel festival, were judged to have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups.
Continue reading...", - "category": "Saudi Arabia", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/camels-enhanced-with-botox-barred-from-saudi-beauty-contest", - "creator": "AP in Dubai", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T15:26:56Z", + "title": "Failure, fear and the threat of famine in Afghanistan", + "description": "A whistleblower has accused the British government of abject failures in its efforts to manage the evacuation of people from Afghanistan as the Taliban took control in August. Emma Graham-Harrison returns to the country to find it facing a humanitarian crisis
When the Taliban entered Kabul in August and completed their takeover of Afghanistan, thousands of people scrambled for the last remaining flights out of the city’s airport. It was chaos that turned deadly: a bomb attack on the airport’s perimeter killed more than 70 people as they crowded the fences, desperate for a way out. Now testimony from a whistleblower who was working on the UK government’s response to the crisis paints a picture of a callous, complacent and incompetent Foreign Office.
It’s a picture that rings true for the Guardian’s senior foreign reporter Emma Graham-Harrison, who tells Michael Safi that while some of the staff in the Foreign Office acted heroically, the system as a whole had huge failings. The government has rejected the account of the whistleblower. A spokesperson said: “Regrettably we were not able to evacuate all those we wanted to, but … since the end of the operation we have helped more than 3,000 individuals leave Afghanistan.”
Continue reading...", + "content": "A whistleblower has accused the British government of abject failures in its efforts to manage the evacuation of people from Afghanistan as the Taliban took control in August. Emma Graham-Harrison returns to the country to find it facing a humanitarian crisis
When the Taliban entered Kabul in August and completed their takeover of Afghanistan, thousands of people scrambled for the last remaining flights out of the city’s airport. It was chaos that turned deadly: a bomb attack on the airport’s perimeter killed more than 70 people as they crowded the fences, desperate for a way out. Now testimony from a whistleblower who was working on the UK government’s response to the crisis paints a picture of a callous, complacent and incompetent Foreign Office.
It’s a picture that rings true for the Guardian’s senior foreign reporter Emma Graham-Harrison, who tells Michael Safi that while some of the staff in the Foreign Office acted heroically, the system as a whole had huge failings. The government has rejected the account of the whistleblower. A spokesperson said: “Regrettably we were not able to evacuate all those we wanted to, but … since the end of the operation we have helped more than 3,000 individuals leave Afghanistan.”
Continue reading...", + "category": "Afghanistan", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/dec/09/failure-and-the-threat-of-famine-in-afghanistan-podcast", + "creator": "Presented by Michael Safi with Emma Graham-Harrison; produced by Alex Atack, Eva Krysiak and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producers Phil Maynard and Mythili Rao", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T03:00:02Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97433,7 +98633,7 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "620c5f1f6277a35729c6c433ee4f34e6" + "hash": "26a955895d380456644a36d88131fc06" }, { "title": "UK ‘embarrassed’ into funding Mozambique gas project, court hears", @@ -97456,13 +98656,13 @@ "hash": "3e612ab74ebc0dfd289422640f8f3aa3" }, { - "title": "Biden’s carbon-neutral order praised for ‘aligning government power with climate goals’ – live", - "description": "Joe Biden took a few questions from reporters this morning, as he left the White House to start his trip to Kansas City, Missouri.
Asked about his summit yesterday with Vladimir Putin, Biden said, “I was very straightforward. There were no minced words.”
Continue reading...", - "content": "Joe Biden took a few questions from reporters this morning, as he left the White House to start his trip to Kansas City, Missouri.
Asked about his summit yesterday with Vladimir Putin, Biden said, “I was very straightforward. There were no minced words.”
Continue reading...", - "category": "House of Representatives", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/dec/08/house-passes-768bn-defense-bill-biden-us-politics-live", - "creator": "Joan E Greve", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T22:09:26Z", + "title": "Helicopter lowers rescuer to car at top of Niagara Falls – video", + "description": "A woman's body has been retrieved from a car that was washed close to the brink of Niagara Falls on the US-Canada border. A coast guard rescuer was lowered from a helicopter to the car and found the body. An investigation has been launched into how the car and its occupant ended up in the Niagara River.
Continue reading...", + "content": "A woman's body has been retrieved from a car that was washed close to the brink of Niagara Falls on the US-Canada border. A coast guard rescuer was lowered from a helicopter to the car and found the body. An investigation has been launched into how the car and its occupant ended up in the Niagara River.
Continue reading...", + "category": "US news", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/dec/09/helicopter-lowers-rescuer-to-car-at-top-of-niagara-falls-video", + "creator": "", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T03:39:22Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97473,7 +98673,7 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "e54729488f48d3acbf7c8b7769e56b01" + "hash": "acf964195f8a0b127c677d9101c8b1d5" }, { "title": "US accuses El Salvador of secretly negotiating truce with gang leaders", @@ -97496,33 +98696,13 @@ "hash": "9d7fb75393f8c0ef5ed9963940ea1562" }, { - "title": "China’s indebted property sector highlights a fading economic revival", - "description": "Xi Jinping’s mission is not only to control the housing bubble, but rein in untethered industries and foreign capital
China’s economy has become heavily dependent on property development over the last decade. High-rise apartments have mushroomed across hundreds of cities to house a growing white-collar workforce, while glass and steel office blocks are dominating city centres, mimicking Shanghai’s glittering skyline.
Valued at more than $50tn after 20 years of rapid growth, Chinese real estate is worth twice as much as the US property market and four times China’s annual income.
Continue reading...", - "content": "Xi Jinping’s mission is not only to control the housing bubble, but rein in untethered industries and foreign capital
China’s economy has become heavily dependent on property development over the last decade. High-rise apartments have mushroomed across hundreds of cities to house a growing white-collar workforce, while glass and steel office blocks are dominating city centres, mimicking Shanghai’s glittering skyline.
Valued at more than $50tn after 20 years of rapid growth, Chinese real estate is worth twice as much as the US property market and four times China’s annual income.
Continue reading...", - "category": "China", - "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/chinas-indebted-property-sector-highlights-a-fading-economic-revival", - "creator": "Phillip Inman", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T20:07:54Z", - "enclosure": "", - "enclosureType": "", - "image": "", - "language": "en", - "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", - "feed": "The Guardian", - "read": false, - "favorite": false, - "created": false, - "tags": [], - "hash": "2ec298dbe6878aabf58cd76dcad3fd8e" - }, - { - "title": "Australia news live update: Qld, NT pass 80% vaccine milestone; Victoria records 1,232 Covid cases, nine deaths; 420 cases and one death in NSW", - "description": "Deputy prime minister returns positive Covid test in the US; Victoria records 1,232 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths; NSW records 420 cases, one death; Queensland and Northern Territory pass 80% fully vaccinated mark; $23.6bn takeover of Sydney Airport approved; woman dies in floodwaters in Brisbane. Follow live
A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
Continue reading...", - "content": "Deputy prime minister returns positive Covid test in the US; Victoria records 1,232 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths; NSW records 420 cases, one death; Queensland and Northern Territory pass 80% fully vaccinated mark; $23.6bn takeover of Sydney Airport approved; woman dies in floodwaters in Brisbane. Follow live
A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
Continue reading...", + "title": "Australia news live update: eight new Omicron infections in NSW as Covid cases rise; Qld and NT pass 80% vaccine milestone", + "description": "Omicron cases in NSW rise to 42 after eight infections reported; Queensland and Northern Territory pass 80% fully vaccinated mark; Victoria records 1,232 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths; NSW records 420 cases, one death; four cases in ACT, three in NT and none in Qld; vaccine mandate for most Tasmanian public servants. Follow live
A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
Continue reading...", + "content": "Omicron cases in NSW rise to 42 after eight infections reported; Queensland and Northern Territory pass 80% fully vaccinated mark; Victoria records 1,232 new Covid-19 cases and nine deaths; NSW records 420 cases, one death; four cases in ACT, three in NT and none in Qld; vaccine mandate for most Tasmanian public servants. Follow live
A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
Continue reading...", "category": "Australia news", "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2021/dec/09/australia-news-live-update-increase-in-nsw-covid-cases-linked-to-more-parties-omicron-could-become-dominant-strain-pfizer-children-scott-morrison-gladys-berejiklian-moderna-vaccine", - "creator": "Justine Landis-Hanley", - "pubDate": "2021-12-08T23:15:13Z", + "creator": "Mostafa Rachwani (now) and Justine Landis-Hanley (earlier)", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T05:19:12Z", "enclosure": "", "enclosureType": "", "image": "", @@ -97533,7 +98713,7 @@ "favorite": false, "created": false, "tags": [], - "hash": "491ee18e053498153f45bee65ea0cf90" + "hash": "a6bc348c8c8b1877c4dc84d48b6629ee" }, { "title": "Win for Tunisian town facing landfill crisis as government backs down", @@ -97635,6 +98815,26 @@ "tags": [], "hash": "2b1f92d7a54f7617fb5f7a53c349f167" }, + { + "title": "China’s indebted property sector highlights a fading economic revival", + "description": "Xi Jinping’s mission is not only to control the housing bubble, but rein in untethered industries and foreign capital
China’s economy has become heavily dependent on property development over the last decade. High-rise apartments have mushroomed across hundreds of cities to house a growing white-collar workforce, while glass and steel office blocks are dominating city centres, mimicking Shanghai’s glittering skyline.
Valued at more than $50tn after 20 years of rapid growth, Chinese real estate is worth twice as much as the US property market and four times China’s annual income.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Xi Jinping’s mission is not only to control the housing bubble, but rein in untethered industries and foreign capital
China’s economy has become heavily dependent on property development over the last decade. High-rise apartments have mushroomed across hundreds of cities to house a growing white-collar workforce, while glass and steel office blocks are dominating city centres, mimicking Shanghai’s glittering skyline.
Valued at more than $50tn after 20 years of rapid growth, Chinese real estate is worth twice as much as the US property market and four times China’s annual income.
Continue reading...", + "category": "China", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/chinas-indebted-property-sector-highlights-a-fading-economic-revival", + "creator": "Phillip Inman", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T20:07:54Z", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "en", + "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", + "feed": "The Guardian", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "2ec298dbe6878aabf58cd76dcad3fd8e" + }, { "title": "‘More cautious’ China shifts Africa approach from debt to vaccine diplomacy", "description": "Analysis: After two decades of major financial aid, Beijing is rethinking its strategy on continent amid Covid crisis and fierce competition for power, analysts say
As debt concerns rise and a new coronavirus variant emerges, China appears to be adjusting its approach to Africa: cutting finance pledges while doubling down on vaccine diplomacy.
On Monday last week, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, opened a China-Africa forum with a pledge to supply 1bn vaccine doses to Africa, amid global concern over the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. He also pledged $40bn to the continent, ranging from credit lines to investments – a significant cut from the $60bn promised at the previous two summits.
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It is the Christmas card that has sent shockwaves across the world – and provided a chilling reminder of the size and type of weapons that are perfectly legal to own and carry in large parts of the US.
An analysis by the Guardian indicates the guns in the photograph published by the Republican congressman Thomas Massie are military grade and – in some cases – similar to those used in recent notorious deadly incidents.
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It is the Christmas card that has sent shockwaves across the world – and provided a chilling reminder of the size and type of weapons that are perfectly legal to own and carry in large parts of the US.
An analysis by the Guardian indicates the guns in the photograph published by the Republican congressman Thomas Massie are military grade and – in some cases – similar to those used in recent notorious deadly incidents.
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Allegra Stratton has stepped down as the government’s spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit after footage emerged of her joking about a party at Downing Street during the peak of lockdown rules in December last year.
Boris Johnson told a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday that Stratton had been an “outstanding spokeswoman … I am very sorry to lose her”. But he added: “I take responsibility for everything that happens in this government and I have throughout the pandemic.”
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Allegra Stratton has stepped down as the government’s spokesperson for the Cop26 climate summit after footage emerged of her joking about a party at Downing Street during the peak of lockdown rules in December last year.
Boris Johnson told a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday that Stratton had been an “outstanding spokeswoman … I am very sorry to lose her”. But he added: “I take responsibility for everything that happens in this government and I have throughout the pandemic.”
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Downing Street sources are saying this morning that “no decisions have been made” on a move to plan B. But, frankly, an FT story carries more credibility in the Westminster media village.
Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph political editor, thinks the timing of such a move would be suspicious.
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Downing Street sources are saying this morning that “no decisions have been made” on a move to plan B. But, frankly, an FT story carries more credibility in the Westminster media village.
Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph political editor, thinks the timing of such a move would be suspicious.
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Joe Biden has said that he is not considering sending US troops to defend Ukraine in response to a Russian military buildup on the country’s borders.
“That is not on the table,” he told reporters on Wednesday, one day after speaking directly with Vladimir Putin in an effort to avert a military crisis.
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Joe Biden has said that he is not considering sending US troops to defend Ukraine in response to a Russian military buildup on the country’s borders.
“That is not on the table,” he told reporters on Wednesday, one day after speaking directly with Vladimir Putin in an effort to avert a military crisis.
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The German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was a member of the Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document – revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own statements about his father’s military service during the second world war.
German officials have confirmed that an ID card in the country’s federal archive shows that an 18-year-old named Michael Kast joined the National Socialist German Workers’ party, or NSDAP, in September 1942, at the height of Hitler’s war on the Soviet Union.
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The German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast was a member of the Nazi party, according to a recently unearthed document – revelations that appear at odds with the far-right candidate’s own statements about his father’s military service during the second world war.
German officials have confirmed that an ID card in the country’s federal archive shows that an 18-year-old named Michael Kast joined the National Socialist German Workers’ party, or NSDAP, in September 1942, at the height of Hitler’s war on the Soviet Union.
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Lawyers delivered their closing arguments on Wednesday in Jussie Smollett’s criminal trial where the former Empire actor is facing charges that he lied to Chicago police about an attack in 2019.
Smollett denies the charges.
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Lawyers delivered their closing arguments on Wednesday in Jussie Smollett’s criminal trial where the former Empire actor is facing charges that he lied to Chicago police about an attack in 2019.
Smollett denies the charges.
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The mayor of a Spanish village whose former name was an ugly reminder of the country’s medieval persecution of its Jewish population has vowed to carry on with plans for a Sephardic memory centre despite an antisemitic graffiti attack this week.
Seven years ago, the 52 eligible residents of Castrillo Matajudíos – Camp Kill Jews in English, voted in a referendum to change the village’s name back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which means Jews’ Hill Camp.
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The mayor of a Spanish village whose former name was an ugly reminder of the country’s medieval persecution of its Jewish population has vowed to carry on with plans for a Sephardic memory centre despite an antisemitic graffiti attack this week.
Seven years ago, the 52 eligible residents of Castrillo Matajudíos – Camp Kill Jews in English, voted in a referendum to change the village’s name back to Castrillo Mota de Judíos, which means Jews’ Hill Camp.
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Sienna Miller believes details of her 2005 pregnancy were obtained by the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, using “blatantly unlawful means”, a court has heard. Miller also believes phone hacking was practised by journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid newspaper.
“I was told at the end of July 2005, by my friend and publicist, that Rebekah Brooks had found out that I was pregnant,” said Miller, in an excerpt from a draft statement read out by her lawyer at the high court.
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Sienna Miller believes details of her 2005 pregnancy were obtained by the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, using “blatantly unlawful means”, a court has heard. Miller also believes phone hacking was practised by journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s daily tabloid newspaper.
“I was told at the end of July 2005, by my friend and publicist, that Rebekah Brooks had found out that I was pregnant,” said Miller, in an excerpt from a draft statement read out by her lawyer at the high court.
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On 23 December last year, the day after Downing Street aides were recorded laughing about how they could pretend that a party at No 10 was a “cheese and wine” gathering, a large contingent of police officers arrived at the London Tavern pub in Hackney, east London. James Kearns, the owner, was hosting Christmas drinks for workers at a scaffolding company he also runs.
“There were 15 of us,” he said on Wednesday. “About 20 of the police showed up, absolutely hammering on the doors. We all hid in the toilets, but they found us.” This week, the case went before a magistrate. “And we’ve all been fined £100 each.”
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On 23 December last year, the day after Downing Street aides were recorded laughing about how they could pretend that a party at No 10 was a “cheese and wine” gathering, a large contingent of police officers arrived at the London Tavern pub in Hackney, east London. James Kearns, the owner, was hosting Christmas drinks for workers at a scaffolding company he also runs.
“There were 15 of us,” he said on Wednesday. “About 20 of the police showed up, absolutely hammering on the doors. We all hid in the toilets, but they found us.” This week, the case went before a magistrate. “And we’ve all been fined £100 each.”
Continue reading...", + "category": "Coronavirus", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/08/they-just-didnt-care-woman-who-lost-her-mum-on-day-of-no-10-party", + "creator": "Archie Bland", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T12:07:15Z", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "en", + "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", + "feed": "The Guardian", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "64fc5e1594f6d2bfb709e78959051cef" + }, + { + "title": "Anger as Jair Bolsonaro to allow unvaccinated visitors into Brazil", + "description": "There are fears the decision will reverse the gains made by a successful vaccination campaign
The Brazilian government has been accused of seeking to turn the South American country into a haven for unvaccinated tourists after it shunned calls – including from its own health regulator – to demand proof of vaccination from visitors.
The decision – announced on Tuesday by the health minister, Marcelo Queiroga – sparked anger in a nation that has lost more than 615,000 lives to a Covid outbreak the president, Jair Bolsonaro, stands accused of catastrophically mishandling.
Continue reading...", + "content": "There are fears the decision will reverse the gains made by a successful vaccination campaign
The Brazilian government has been accused of seeking to turn the South American country into a haven for unvaccinated tourists after it shunned calls – including from its own health regulator – to demand proof of vaccination from visitors.
The decision – announced on Tuesday by the health minister, Marcelo Queiroga – sparked anger in a nation that has lost more than 615,000 lives to a Covid outbreak the president, Jair Bolsonaro, stands accused of catastrophically mishandling.
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“I guess I’m part of history,” says James Lowe, lead singer of the Electric Prunes, of the band’s oeuvre being gathered into a box set this month. “It suggests the idea we had for the band was viable – at least for a while.”
Indeed, the Los Angeles quintet were, if only briefly, one of psychedelic rock’s pioneers. Ironically, as Lowe confirms, the Prunes weren’t particularly interested in hallucinogenic drugs – “we had no support crew, no tour bus; we couldn’t sit around stoned” – and no Prune possessed the dark charisma of fellow LA psychedelic shamans Arthur Lee or Jim Morrison. Initially a surf-rock outfit, a passing real-estate agent heard the band rehearsing in a garage and suggested a friend of hers might be interested in them. Lowe gave his phone number but thought nothing of it, because “everyone in LA knows ‘someone’ in the film or music industry”.
Continue reading...", + "content": "Discovered in an LA garage, the band rode a psychedelic wave into Easy Rider and a trippy Latin mass – even if they didn’t actually take acid. As a box set revives the music, their lead singer looks back
“I guess I’m part of history,” says James Lowe, lead singer of the Electric Prunes, of the band’s oeuvre being gathered into a box set this month. “It suggests the idea we had for the band was viable – at least for a while.”
Indeed, the Los Angeles quintet were, if only briefly, one of psychedelic rock’s pioneers. Ironically, as Lowe confirms, the Prunes weren’t particularly interested in hallucinogenic drugs – “we had no support crew, no tour bus; we couldn’t sit around stoned” – and no Prune possessed the dark charisma of fellow LA psychedelic shamans Arthur Lee or Jim Morrison. Initially a surf-rock outfit, a passing real-estate agent heard the band rehearsing in a garage and suggested a friend of hers might be interested in them. Lowe gave his phone number but thought nothing of it, because “everyone in LA knows ‘someone’ in the film or music industry”.
Continue reading...", + "category": "Psychedelia", + "link": "https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/08/60s-psych-rockers-the-electric-prunes-we-couldnt-sit-around-stoned", + "creator": "Garth Cartwright", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T16:08:47Z", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "en", + "folder": "00.03 News/News - EN", + "feed": "The Guardian", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "b9f296b84dfd086bdb30fd5532febfc6" + }, + { + "title": "Cornish town with 1,440 residents seeks to become UK’s smallest city", + "description": "Marazion, opposite St Michael’s Mount, faces stiff opposition from larger areas in contest for city status
It may not boast a cathedral, a university or a major sports team – the sort of features often associated with a typical British metropolis. But the town of Marazion (population 1,440), perched prettily on the south coast of Cornwall, has nevertheless launched a bold campaign for city status.
Marazion, which does have a couple of churches, a primary school and rowing and sailing clubs, would become the smallest and most southerly city if its proposal is accepted.
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It may not boast a cathedral, a university or a major sports team – the sort of features often associated with a typical British metropolis. But the town of Marazion (population 1,440), perched prettily on the south coast of Cornwall, has nevertheless launched a bold campaign for city status.
Marazion, which does have a couple of churches, a primary school and rowing and sailing clubs, would become the smallest and most southerly city if its proposal is accepted.
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I lived at sea for 10 years. I co-owned and ran a global kiteboarding expedition business. We’d sail around the world on a 60-foot catamaran, following the trade winds, kiteboarding, surfing and paragliding in remote locations. One night, I watched a Hollywood movie called The Fall, which had a section where an elephant was swimming in tropical blue water. I didn’t know if it was real or a fake Hollywood thing. But I thought: “Man, if that does exist, I’d love to photograph it.”
I searched the internet and found the elephant from the film was living in the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal. When we sailed into the capital, Port Blair, a few months later in 2010, I decided to hop off and try to find this elephant. I found Rajan on Havelock (now Swaraj) Island and spent two weeks with him, learning about his incredible story.
Continue reading...", + "content": "‘He had been used for logging on the Andaman Islands. When I found him, he was 60, living in retirement – and loving his swims’
I lived at sea for 10 years. I co-owned and ran a global kiteboarding expedition business. We’d sail around the world on a 60-foot catamaran, following the trade winds, kiteboarding, surfing and paragliding in remote locations. One night, I watched a Hollywood movie called The Fall, which had a section where an elephant was swimming in tropical blue water. I didn’t know if it was real or a fake Hollywood thing. But I thought: “Man, if that does exist, I’d love to photograph it.”
I searched the internet and found the elephant from the film was living in the Andaman Islands, an Indian territory in the Bay of Bengal. When we sailed into the capital, Port Blair, a few months later in 2010, I decided to hop off and try to find this elephant. I found Rajan on Havelock (now Swaraj) Island and spent two weeks with him, learning about his incredible story.
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Name: Omicron.
Age: The new and potentially more virulent Covid-19 variant was first detected in South Africa at the end of November. Young, then.
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Name: Omicron.
Age: The new and potentially more virulent Covid-19 variant was first detected in South Africa at the end of November. Young, then.
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A travel company called Black Tomato, in return for a significant sum of money, will drop you in the middle of you know not where, and leave you there. The product is called Get Lost and is surely more evidence that we’ve, well, lost our way.
Which isn’t to say that it’s a daft idea. As a matter of fact, it quite appeals to me. I’m used to feeling psychologically lost – that wouldn’t be much of a holiday – but I’m very rarely physically, geographically lost. And annoying, and even frightening, as it can be, I miss this sensation. I believe it is good for the soul. “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go,” is a line in a Beatles song. How about: “Oh, that magic feeling, where the bloody hell am I?”
Continue reading...", + "content": "In an era of mobile phones, we rarely lose our way - which means we miss out on the joy and relief of finding it again
A travel company called Black Tomato, in return for a significant sum of money, will drop you in the middle of you know not where, and leave you there. The product is called Get Lost and is surely more evidence that we’ve, well, lost our way.
Which isn’t to say that it’s a daft idea. As a matter of fact, it quite appeals to me. I’m used to feeling psychologically lost – that wouldn’t be much of a holiday – but I’m very rarely physically, geographically lost. And annoying, and even frightening, as it can be, I miss this sensation. I believe it is good for the soul. “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go,” is a line in a Beatles song. How about: “Oh, that magic feeling, where the bloody hell am I?”
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The Metropolitan police has said it will not investigate the Downing Street Christmas party widely reported to have been held last year.
In a much awaited statement, the force said it had a policy of not retrospectively investigating alleged breaches of coronavirus laws.
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The Metropolitan police has said it will not investigate the Downing Street Christmas party widely reported to have been held last year.
In a much awaited statement, the force said it had a policy of not retrospectively investigating alleged breaches of coronavirus laws.
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Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.
South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.
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Germany reported 69,601 cases of Covid-19 and 527 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Robert Koch Institute, taking the total cases in the country to 6,291,621. There have been 104,047 deaths.
South Korean authorities are urging people to get vaccinated as case rise in the east Asian nation generally regarded as having dealth with the pandemic well.
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The camels disqualified in the competition, at the King Abdulaziz camel festival, were judged to have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups.
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Saudi authorities have carried out their biggest crackdown on camel beauty contestants, disqualifying more than 40 “enhanced” camels from the annual pageant, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The camels disqualified in the competition, at the King Abdulaziz camel festival, were judged to have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups.
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Asked about his summit yesterday with Vladimir Putin, Biden said, “I was very straightforward. There were no minced words.”
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Asked about his summit yesterday with Vladimir Putin, Biden said, “I was very straightforward. There were no minced words.”
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A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
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A high profile doctor has announced she will be standing against treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, saying she “can’t stand” the government’s inaction on climate change.
Prof Monique Ryan, the director of neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, launched her independent campaign on Thursday.
As a woman, a mother, and a doctor whose job it is to protect our children, I can’t stand it anymore. I can’t stand by, on the sidelines, while our local member votes with Barnaby Joyce against action on climate change.
Every day I go to work and make difficult decisions to help Australian children. Is it too much to ask our government to do the same?
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An analysis by the Guardian indicates the guns in the photograph published by the Republican congressman Thomas Massie are military grade and – in some cases – similar to those used in recent notorious deadly incidents.
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It is the Christmas card that has sent shockwaves across the world – and provided a chilling reminder of the size and type of weapons that are perfectly legal to own and carry in large parts of the US.
An analysis by the Guardian indicates the guns in the photograph published by the Republican congressman Thomas Massie are military grade and – in some cases – similar to those used in recent notorious deadly incidents.
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The Indian defence chief, Gen Bipin Rawat, was among 13 people killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, raising questions over the future of military changes he was leading.
Rawat was India’s first chief of defence staff, a position that the government established in 2019, and was seen as close to the prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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Mr Garg said he had realized \"the way I communicated this news made a difficult situation worse.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The boss of a US mortgage company, who fired hundreds of his staff in a Zoom meeting has said he is \"deeply sorry\" for the way the lay-offs were handled. The sackings were necessary said Vishal Garg, but he accepted he had \"blundered the execution\" and \"embarrassed\" them. \"I failed to show the appropriate amount of respect and appreciation for the individuals who were affected,\" he said in a letter (PDF) on the firm's website. Mr Garg was heavily criticized after he sacked 900 staff in an online meeting. \"I am deeply sorry and am committed to learning from this situation and doing more to be the leader that you expect me to be,\" he said. Mr Garg said he had realized \"the way I communicated this news made a difficult situation worse.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/12/09/004239/boss-says-sorry-for-blundered-zoom-firing-of-900-staff?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T03:30:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "ffa56cfb9443046b84de0b5eb89260fe" + }, + { + "title": "Can an Athlete's Blood Enhance Brainpower?", + "description": "fahrbot-bot shares a report from The New York Times: What if something in the blood of an athlete could boost the brainpower of someone who doesn't or can't exercise? Could a protein that gets amplified when people exercise help stave off symptoms of Alzheimer's and other memory disorders? That's the tantalizing prospect raised by a new study in which researchers injected sedentary mice with blood from mice that ran for miles on exercise wheels, and found that the sedentary mice then did better on tests of learning and memory. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, also found that the type of brain inflammation involved in Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders was reduced in sedentary mice after they received their athletic counterparts' blood. Scientific results with mice don't necessarily translate to humans. Still, experts said the study supports a growing body of research.\n \nThe study involved mice that were about three months old -- roughly the equivalent of 25-to-30-year olds for humans. Some of the mice, nocturnal animals that love to run, could freely use exercise wheels in their cages and logged about four to six miles on the wheels each night. The wheels were locked for other mice that could scoot around their cages but could not get an extended cardio workout. [...] After 28 days, the researchers took a third group of mice that also did not exercise and injected them with blood plasma, the liquid that surrounds blood cells, from either the runner mice or the non-runner mice. Mice receiving runner blood did better on two tests of learning and memory than those receiving blood from the non-runner mice. In one test, which measures how long a mouse will freeze in fear when it is returned to a cage where it previously received an electric foot shock, mice with runner blood froze 25 percent longer, indicating they had better memory of the stressful event [...]. In the other test, mice with runner blood were twice as fast at finding a platform submerged in opaque water, he said. The team also found that the brains of mice with runner blood produced more of several types of brain cells, including those that generate new neurons in the hippocampus, a region involved in memory and spatial learning. A genetic analysis showed that about 1,950 genes had changed in response to the infusion of runner blood, becoming either more or less activated. Most of the 250 genes with the greatest activation changes were involved in inflammation and their changes suggested that brain inflammation was reduced.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "fahrbot-bot shares a report from The New York Times: What if something in the blood of an athlete could boost the brainpower of someone who doesn't or can't exercise? Could a protein that gets amplified when people exercise help stave off symptoms of Alzheimer's and other memory disorders? That's the tantalizing prospect raised by a new study in which researchers injected sedentary mice with blood from mice that ran for miles on exercise wheels, and found that the sedentary mice then did better on tests of learning and memory. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, also found that the type of brain inflammation involved in Alzheimer's and other neurological disorders was reduced in sedentary mice after they received their athletic counterparts' blood. Scientific results with mice don't necessarily translate to humans. Still, experts said the study supports a growing body of research.\n \nThe study involved mice that were about three months old -- roughly the equivalent of 25-to-30-year olds for humans. Some of the mice, nocturnal animals that love to run, could freely use exercise wheels in their cages and logged about four to six miles on the wheels each night. The wheels were locked for other mice that could scoot around their cages but could not get an extended cardio workout. [...] After 28 days, the researchers took a third group of mice that also did not exercise and injected them with blood plasma, the liquid that surrounds blood cells, from either the runner mice or the non-runner mice. Mice receiving runner blood did better on two tests of learning and memory than those receiving blood from the non-runner mice. In one test, which measures how long a mouse will freeze in fear when it is returned to a cage where it previously received an electric foot shock, mice with runner blood froze 25 percent longer, indicating they had better memory of the stressful event [...]. In the other test, mice with runner blood were twice as fast at finding a platform submerged in opaque water, he said. The team also found that the brains of mice with runner blood produced more of several types of brain cells, including those that generate new neurons in the hippocampus, a region involved in memory and spatial learning. A genetic analysis showed that about 1,950 genes had changed in response to the infusion of runner blood, becoming either more or less activated. Most of the 250 genes with the greatest activation changes were involved in inflammation and their changes suggested that brain inflammation was reduced.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/228254/can-an-athletes-blood-enhance-brainpower?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T02:10:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "3ac684ce569cfc3d3e21f04309e61feb" + }, + { + "title": "Suicide Pods Now Legal In Switzerland, Providing Users With a Painless Death", + "description": "Switzerland is giving the green light to so-called \"suicide capsules\" -- 3-D printed pods that allow people to choose the place where they want to die an assisted death. Global News reports: The country's medical review board announced the legalization of the Sarco Suicide Pods this week. They can be operated by the user from the inside. Dr. Philip Nitschke, the developer of the pods and founder of Exit International, a pro-euthanasia group, told SwissInfo.ch the machines can be \"towed anywhere for the death\" and one of the most positive features of the capsules is that they can be transported to an \"idyllic outdoor setting.\"\n \nCurrently, assisted suicide in Switzerland means swallowing a capsule filled with a cocktail of controlled substances that puts the person into a deep coma before they die. But Sarco pods -- short for sarcophagus -- allow a person to control their death inside the pod by quickly reducing internal oxygen levels. The person intending to end their life is required to answer a set of pre-recorded questions, then press a button that floods the interior with nitrogen. The oxygen level inside is quickly reduced from 21 per cent to one per cent. After death, the pod can be used as a coffin. [...]\n \nNitschke said his method of death is painless, and the person will feel a little bit disoriented and/or euphoric before they lose consciousness. He said there are only two capsule prototypes in existence, but a third machine is being printed now, and he expects this method to become available to the Swiss public next year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "Switzerland is giving the green light to so-called \"suicide capsules\" -- 3-D printed pods that allow people to choose the place where they want to die an assisted death. Global News reports: The country's medical review board announced the legalization of the Sarco Suicide Pods this week. They can be operated by the user from the inside. Dr. Philip Nitschke, the developer of the pods and founder of Exit International, a pro-euthanasia group, told SwissInfo.ch the machines can be \"towed anywhere for the death\" and one of the most positive features of the capsules is that they can be transported to an \"idyllic outdoor setting.\"\n \nCurrently, assisted suicide in Switzerland means swallowing a capsule filled with a cocktail of controlled substances that puts the person into a deep coma before they die. But Sarco pods -- short for sarcophagus -- allow a person to control their death inside the pod by quickly reducing internal oxygen levels. The person intending to end their life is required to answer a set of pre-recorded questions, then press a button that floods the interior with nitrogen. The oxygen level inside is quickly reduced from 21 per cent to one per cent. After death, the pod can be used as a coffin. [...]\n \nNitschke said his method of death is painless, and the person will feel a little bit disoriented and/or euphoric before they lose consciousness. He said there are only two capsule prototypes in existence, but a third machine is being printed now, and he expects this method to become available to the Swiss public next year.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/2131224/suicide-pods-now-legal-in-switzerland-providing-users-with-a-painless-death?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T01:30:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "f8740a9d89b14ee629b30b95fcf29ee5" + }, + { + "title": "SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch In Four Days", + "description": "Newly released monitoring data shows that San Francisco's Millennium Tower tilted a quarter inch during the four days it took to install the first test pile to bedrock last month. From a local report: The monitoring data tracks settlement, tilting and water pressure levels underneath the sinking and leaning structure since work began on a fix for the troubled tower in May. Since work began to shore the sinking structure up on the north and west sides, the building has settled nearly 2 inches at the northwest corner and is now tilting more than two feet at that edge. The latest data -- including the four days that the test pile was installed from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19 -- shows a quarter inch of new tilt, as well as a tenth of an inch of settlement at the time the test installation occurred. At the same time, there was marked fluctuation of water pressure below the foundation on the Mission Street side of the structure.\n[...]\nStill, Ron Hamburger, the fix designer, recently assured city officials that the settlement that has occurred during testing of new methods designed to limit sinking is within expected levels. Hamburger now has city permission to install two more test piles. Hamburger told city officials the additional testing is needed to help determine just how many piles will ultimately be used to shore up the structure.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "Newly released monitoring data shows that San Francisco's Millennium Tower tilted a quarter inch during the four days it took to install the first test pile to bedrock last month. From a local report: The monitoring data tracks settlement, tilting and water pressure levels underneath the sinking and leaning structure since work began on a fix for the troubled tower in May. Since work began to shore the sinking structure up on the north and west sides, the building has settled nearly 2 inches at the northwest corner and is now tilting more than two feet at that edge. The latest data -- including the four days that the test pile was installed from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19 -- shows a quarter inch of new tilt, as well as a tenth of an inch of settlement at the time the test installation occurred. At the same time, there was marked fluctuation of water pressure below the foundation on the Mission Street side of the structure.\n[...]\nStill, Ron Hamburger, the fix designer, recently assured city officials that the settlement that has occurred during testing of new methods designed to limit sinking is within expected levels. Hamburger now has city permission to install two more test piles. Hamburger told city officials the additional testing is needed to help determine just how many piles will ultimately be used to shore up the structure.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/2357252/sf-millennium-tower-tilts-quarter-inch-in-four-days?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T01:10:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "dc4afd850e7940e48d28768ae98360e8" + }, + { + "title": "DeepMind Tests the Limits of Large AI Language Systems With 280-Billion-Parameter Model", + "description": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Language generation is the hottest thing in AI right now, with a class of systems known as \"large language models\" (or LLMs) being used for everything from improving Google's search engine to creating text-based fantasy games. But these programs also have serious problems, including regurgitating sexist and racist language and failing tests of logical reasoning. One big question is: can these weaknesses be improved by simply adding more data and computing power, or are we reaching the limits of this technological paradigm? This is one of the topics that Alphabet's AI lab DeepMind is tackling in a trio of research papers published today. The company's conclusion is that scaling up these systems further should deliver plenty of improvements. \"One key finding of the paper is that the progress and capabilities of large language models is still increasing. This is not an area that has plateaued,\" DeepMind research scientist Jack Rae told reporters in a briefing call.\n \nDeepMind, which regularly feeds its work into Google products, has probed the capabilities of this LLMs by building a language model with 280 billion parameters named Gopher. Parameters are a quick measure of a language's models size and complexity, meaning that Gopher is larger than OpenAI's GPT-3 (175 billion parameters) but not as big as some more experimental systems, like Microsoft and Nvidia's Megatron model (530 billion parameters). It's generally true in the AI world that bigger is better, with larger models usually offering higher performance. DeepMind's research confirms this trend and suggests that scaling up LLMs does offer improved performance on the most common benchmarks testing things like sentiment analysis and summarization. However, researchers also cautioned that some issues inherent to language models will need more than just data and compute to fix. \"I think right now it really looks like the model can fail in variety of ways,\" said Rae. \"Some subset of those ways are because the model just doesn't have sufficiently good comprehension of what it's reading, and I feel like, for those class of problems, we are just going to see improved performance with more data and scale.\"\n \nBut, he added, there are \"other categories of problems, like the model perpetuating stereotypical biases or the model being coaxed into giving mistruths, that [...] no one at DeepMind thinks scale will be the solution [to].\" In these cases, language models will need \"additional training routines\" like feedback from human users, he noted.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Language generation is the hottest thing in AI right now, with a class of systems known as \"large language models\" (or LLMs) being used for everything from improving Google's search engine to creating text-based fantasy games. But these programs also have serious problems, including regurgitating sexist and racist language and failing tests of logical reasoning. One big question is: can these weaknesses be improved by simply adding more data and computing power, or are we reaching the limits of this technological paradigm? This is one of the topics that Alphabet's AI lab DeepMind is tackling in a trio of research papers published today. The company's conclusion is that scaling up these systems further should deliver plenty of improvements. \"One key finding of the paper is that the progress and capabilities of large language models is still increasing. This is not an area that has plateaued,\" DeepMind research scientist Jack Rae told reporters in a briefing call.\n \nDeepMind, which regularly feeds its work into Google products, has probed the capabilities of this LLMs by building a language model with 280 billion parameters named Gopher. Parameters are a quick measure of a language's models size and complexity, meaning that Gopher is larger than OpenAI's GPT-3 (175 billion parameters) but not as big as some more experimental systems, like Microsoft and Nvidia's Megatron model (530 billion parameters). It's generally true in the AI world that bigger is better, with larger models usually offering higher performance. DeepMind's research confirms this trend and suggests that scaling up LLMs does offer improved performance on the most common benchmarks testing things like sentiment analysis and summarization. However, researchers also cautioned that some issues inherent to language models will need more than just data and compute to fix. \"I think right now it really looks like the model can fail in variety of ways,\" said Rae. \"Some subset of those ways are because the model just doesn't have sufficiently good comprehension of what it's reading, and I feel like, for those class of problems, we are just going to see improved performance with more data and scale.\"\n \nBut, he added, there are \"other categories of problems, like the model perpetuating stereotypical biases or the model being coaxed into giving mistruths, that [...] no one at DeepMind thinks scale will be the solution [to].\" In these cases, language models will need \"additional training routines\" like feedback from human users, he noted.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/2147214/deepmind-tests-the-limits-of-large-ai-language-systems-with-280-billion-parameter-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T00:50:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "d48ff2780347cb6f8611c2c3e2f176de" + }, + { + "title": "Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers", + "description": "British telco Virgin Media is facing a 50,000 pound financial penalty after spamming more than 400,000 opted-out customers urging them to sign back up to receive marketing bumf. The Register reports: Just one customer complained to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about receiving the spam -- but that was enough to spur the regulator into investigating. In a message disguised as a routine communication about tariff prices, Virgin told the unfortunate 451,217 recipients it knew full well they'd opted out of marketing emails but wanted them to opt back in. A dischuffed customer wrote to the ICO urging action, describing the spam as \"basically a service message dressed up as an attempt to get me to opt back in to marketing communications.\" When the ICO asked Virgin why it did this thing, the telco said the 451,000 recipients had opted out of being spammed more than a year ago, and therefore \"might have changed their marketing preferences.\"\n \nEven though 6,500 customers decided to opt back into receiving marketing emails as a result of the mailshot, the ICO said this wasn't enough to ignore regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. This is the bit of the law that says email marketers must have your consent before filling your mailbox with enticing new ways to part you from your hard-earned cash. \"The fact that Virgin Media had the potential for financial gain from its breach of the regulation (by signing up more clients to direct marketing) is an aggravating factor, not a defense,\" sniffed the unamused watchdog.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "British telco Virgin Media is facing a 50,000 pound financial penalty after spamming more than 400,000 opted-out customers urging them to sign back up to receive marketing bumf. The Register reports: Just one customer complained to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) about receiving the spam -- but that was enough to spur the regulator into investigating. In a message disguised as a routine communication about tariff prices, Virgin told the unfortunate 451,217 recipients it knew full well they'd opted out of marketing emails but wanted them to opt back in. A dischuffed customer wrote to the ICO urging action, describing the spam as \"basically a service message dressed up as an attempt to get me to opt back in to marketing communications.\" When the ICO asked Virgin why it did this thing, the telco said the 451,000 recipients had opted out of being spammed more than a year ago, and therefore \"might have changed their marketing preferences.\"\n \nEven though 6,500 customers decided to opt back into receiving marketing emails as a result of the mailshot, the ICO said this wasn't enough to ignore regulation 22 of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. This is the bit of the law that says email marketers must have your consent before filling your mailbox with enticing new ways to part you from your hard-earned cash. \"The fact that Virgin Media had the potential for financial gain from its breach of the regulation (by signing up more clients to direct marketing) is an aggravating factor, not a defense,\" sniffed the unamused watchdog.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://it.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/222222/virgin-media-fined-50k-for-spamming-opted-out-customers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T00:30:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "1afbe172b962d13f4466ca0b30df4e56" + }, + { + "title": "Waking Up Right After Drifting Off To Sleep Can Boost Creativity", + "description": "sciencehabit writes: When Thomas Edison hit a wall with his inventions, he would nap in an armchair while holding a steel ball. As he started to fall asleep and his muscles relaxed, the ball would strike the floor, waking him with insights into his problems. Or so the story goes. Now, more than 100 years later, scientists have repeated the trick in a lab, revealing that the famous inventor was on to something. People following his recipe tripled their chances of solving a math problem. The trick was to wake up in the transition between sleep and wakefulness, just before deep sleep. \n\nThe study team also identified a brain activity pattern linked to the creativity-boosting phase: moderate levels of brain waves at a slow frequency known as alpha, associated with relaxation, and low levels of delta waves, a hallmark of deep sleep. Experts say researchers can now focus on this brain signature when investigating the neural mechanisms of creative problem-solving. One team has already planned an experiment to help people reach a creative zone by monitoring their brain waves in real time. \"Edison's intuition was somewhat right,\" says the lead scientist, \"and now we have a lot more to explore.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "sciencehabit writes: When Thomas Edison hit a wall with his inventions, he would nap in an armchair while holding a steel ball. As he started to fall asleep and his muscles relaxed, the ball would strike the floor, waking him with insights into his problems. Or so the story goes. Now, more than 100 years later, scientists have repeated the trick in a lab, revealing that the famous inventor was on to something. People following his recipe tripled their chances of solving a math problem. The trick was to wake up in the transition between sleep and wakefulness, just before deep sleep. \n\nThe study team also identified a brain activity pattern linked to the creativity-boosting phase: moderate levels of brain waves at a slow frequency known as alpha, associated with relaxation, and low levels of delta waves, a hallmark of deep sleep. Experts say researchers can now focus on this brain signature when investigating the neural mechanisms of creative problem-solving. One team has already planned an experiment to help people reach a creative zone by monitoring their brain waves in real time. \"Edison's intuition was somewhat right,\" says the lead scientist, \"and now we have a lot more to explore.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/2124243/waking-up-right-after-drifting-off-to-sleep-can-boost-creativity?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "msmash", + "pubDate": "2021-12-09T00:10:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "07b6376b58284e6aa9e60a70df263ff6" + }, + { + "title": "Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales' NFT of a Wikipedia Edit", + "description": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' auction of an NFT and the iMac he used to build the website has stirred up drama in the notoriously rigid Wikipedia community. The trouble began when Wales posted an announcement about the auction on his user talk page -- a kind of message board where users communicate directly with each other. Wikipedia has strict rules against self-promotion and some editors felt that Wales' announcement violated that rule. \"Am I crazy? Jimbo has posted a thread on his user talk page promoting an auction of some of his stuff, which he has refused to confirm would not benefit him personally,\" editor Floquenbeam said on December 3.. \"This is self-promotion 101, right? I've told him if he doesn't remove it, I will. That's policy, right? [...] Wales pushed back, saying he'd spoken to the WMF communications and legal departments and that they'd agreed a simple post about the auction on his user talk page would be fine.\n \nThe conversation went on like this for about a day before another editor shut it down, saying it was \"past the point of productive discourse.\" The thread announcing the auction on Wales' talk page was removed but another thread remains where he's answering questions about the auction and NFTs from other users. An email thread on the Wikimedia-L listserv is more measured but still has some pedantic arguments that is common with Wikimedia drama. Some users are concerned that he's taking something from Wikimedia and could use the money to fund his commercial enterprise WT:Social. Another user said \"The concept of NFT seems to go against the very principles of Wikipedia. On one hand, we share our work freely, both in terms of access and by using a copyleft license. On the other hand, this NFT takes something that was shared freely and then restricts it so that it can be sold.\" The NFT Wales is selling is a website that allows users to relive the moment of Wikipedia's creation. The site looks like Wikipedia did in its fledgling moments, and whoever wins the auction can edit it as they will.\n \nThe second big controversy among Wikipedia's editors was whether Wales had the right to auction off something like this and if he was even recreating the site correctly at the moment of its inception. The discussion devolved into a lengthy conversation about who owns the rights to what they edit on Wikipedia and the state of servers and timestamps from 2001. It's worth mentioning here that Wales' NFT is a recreation of a memory and not an actual editable bit of code that will be reflected on Wikipedia in any way. Eventually, all sides relented. \"There is at least one good thing that should be coming out of this,\" editor Smallbones said. \"The community has made it very clear that anything that is considered to be promotional or an advertisement, even if it is for a charitable cause, on any page in Wikipedia, posted by any editor -- even the most senior and most respected -- may be removed by any editor at any time.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "content": "An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' auction of an NFT and the iMac he used to build the website has stirred up drama in the notoriously rigid Wikipedia community. The trouble began when Wales posted an announcement about the auction on his user talk page -- a kind of message board where users communicate directly with each other. Wikipedia has strict rules against self-promotion and some editors felt that Wales' announcement violated that rule. \"Am I crazy? Jimbo has posted a thread on his user talk page promoting an auction of some of his stuff, which he has refused to confirm would not benefit him personally,\" editor Floquenbeam said on December 3.. \"This is self-promotion 101, right? I've told him if he doesn't remove it, I will. That's policy, right? [...] Wales pushed back, saying he'd spoken to the WMF communications and legal departments and that they'd agreed a simple post about the auction on his user talk page would be fine.\n \nThe conversation went on like this for about a day before another editor shut it down, saying it was \"past the point of productive discourse.\" The thread announcing the auction on Wales' talk page was removed but another thread remains where he's answering questions about the auction and NFTs from other users. An email thread on the Wikimedia-L listserv is more measured but still has some pedantic arguments that is common with Wikimedia drama. Some users are concerned that he's taking something from Wikimedia and could use the money to fund his commercial enterprise WT:Social. Another user said \"The concept of NFT seems to go against the very principles of Wikipedia. On one hand, we share our work freely, both in terms of access and by using a copyleft license. On the other hand, this NFT takes something that was shared freely and then restricts it so that it can be sold.\" The NFT Wales is selling is a website that allows users to relive the moment of Wikipedia's creation. The site looks like Wikipedia did in its fledgling moments, and whoever wins the auction can edit it as they will.\n \nThe second big controversy among Wikipedia's editors was whether Wales had the right to auction off something like this and if he was even recreating the site correctly at the moment of its inception. The discussion devolved into a lengthy conversation about who owns the rights to what they edit on Wikipedia and the state of servers and timestamps from 2001. It's worth mentioning here that Wales' NFT is a recreation of a memory and not an actual editable bit of code that will be reflected on Wikipedia in any way. Eventually, all sides relented. \"There is at least one good thing that should be coming out of this,\" editor Smallbones said. \"The community has made it very clear that anything that is considered to be promotional or an advertisement, even if it is for a charitable cause, on any page in Wikipedia, posted by any editor -- even the most senior and most respected -- may be removed by any editor at any time.\"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
", + "category": "", + "link": "https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/12/08/2110232/wikipedia-editors-very-mad-about-jimmy-wales-nft-of-a-wikipedia-edit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed", + "creator": "BeauHD", + "pubDate": "2021-12-08T23:30:00+00:00", + "enclosure": "", + "enclosureType": "", + "image": "", + "language": "", + "folder": "00.03 News/Tech", + "feed": "Slashdot", + "read": false, + "favorite": false, + "created": false, + "tags": [], + "hash": "3d8b7e796eac769df98eaac333088e3f" + }, { "title": "Biden Wants To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050", "description": "The Biden administration announced Wednesday it aims to buy its way to a cleaner, cooler planet, spending billions to create a federal fleet of electric vehicles, upgrade federal buildings and change how the government buys electricity. From a report: The executive order President Biden signed leverages Washington's buying power to cut the government's carbon emissions 65 percent by the end of the decade. It lays out goals that would put the federal government on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050 and would add at least 10 gigawatts' worth of clean electricity to the grid. \n\nUnder the new approach, federal operations would run entirely on carbon-free electricity by 2030. By 2035, the government would stop buying gas-powered vehicles, switching to zero-emission heavy-duty trucks and cars. A decade after that, most of the buildings owned or leased by the government would no longer contribute to the carbon pollution that's warming the planet. The order also instructs the government to launch a \"buy clean\" initiative, prioritizing products produced and transported with low greenhouse gas emissions. Sarah Bloom Raskin, a Duke University law professor who served as treasury deputy secretary under President Barack Obama, said in a recent interview that the administration's push to reduce its carbon footprint could ripple across the economy.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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