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3,994 cases as travellers from UK, US and elsewhere welcomed to Singapore; Israel confirms first case of variation in Delta variantWithout Covid-19 jab, ‘reinfection may occur every 16 months’Calls to charge Brazil president with murder over Covid tollFilipino human rights lawyer dies of CovidSee all our coronavirus coverageChief executive of the NHS confederation Matthew Taylor has been on Sky News in the UK, and...

Nothing to indicate account given by Perth girl’s parents anything other than ‘accurate and truthful’, inspector saysGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingPolice say the zipper on the tent in which missing Perth child Cleo Smith was sleeping when she went missing was up so high there was no way the four-year-old could have opened it herself.As the search for the...

Nicola Brookes was groomed by a senior officer she trusted and she is not alone – 2,000 police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in four years. In the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder, what can be done?Nicola Brookes was at the lowest point of her life when she turned to the police for help. By the time she met Inspector Anthony Lumb,...

Obstructionist effort to stop Freedom to Vote Act likely to increase pressure on Democrats to do away with filibusterSenate Republicans are again poised to block a sweeping voting rights bill on Wednesday, a move that will significantly escalate pressure on Democrats to do away with the filibuster, a Senate rule that has stymied the most significant priorities in Congress.The bill, the Freedom to Vote...

Kidnappings of 16 Americans and a Canadian in Port-au-Prince come as hundreds of local residents face similar targeting, with at least 628 abductions so far this yearFirel Joseph was driving through Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, one evening this year when he noticed a white Toyota Land Cruiser with official license plates trailing close to his rear bumper. Assuming the other driver wanted to overtake him,...

Study prompts call for reforms to safeguard conditions of fishers from countries including the Philippines, Egypt, Ghana and IndonesiaRacist insults, verbal abuse, long working hours with few breaks and pay below the legal minimum wage are “common workplace experiences” of migrant workers in the Irish fishing sector, says a new study.The report, conducted by Maynooth University’s Department of Law, comes four months after a...

A bomb attack in Damascus has killed 14 people and left three injured, Syrian state TV Sana reported, releasing video of emergency services searching the charred remains of a bus. Two bombs struck the military bus on Wednesday morning, the deadliest attack in the Syrian capital since a bombing claimed by Islamic State at the Justice Palace in March 2017 that killed at least...

Assad’s forces kill eight in Idlib strikes following bombing in heart of Syrian capitalA bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus has killed 14 people, the deadliest attack in the Syrian capital in four years, the Sana state news agency reported.No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing but moments later shelling by government forces killed eight people in the Idlib region,...

Coffs Harbour cops a hammering as shopping centre ceiling collapses; Australia records its largest ever hailstoneGet our free news app;get our morning email briefingFreak storms across the east coast of Australia have damaged buildings and pounded cities with hail the size of grapefruit.The largest hailstone ever to fall in Australia – a whopping 16cm in diameter – was recorded in Queensland after heavy storms...

Gascón, who frequently clashed with Rodrigo Duterte over his ‘war on drugs’, has been hailed as a ‘true hero’ of democracyJosé Luis Martín C Gascón used a walking stick to carry out his duties as the Philippines’ “courageous” human rights lawyer, a result of living with with diabetes and the wound it left on his right foot.But in the words of his brother, Miguel...

Mini model trounces competition with great camera and performance, but isn’t the best iPhone for the yearThe iPhone 13 mini takes what’s great about the full-size iPhone 13 and squeezes it into a body not much larger than the iPhone 5S without cutting back on features or power.The smallest of Apple’s 2021 lineup costs £679 ($699/A$1,199), sitting above the £389 iPhone SE and below...

From an early age, she encouraged me to be strong, physically and mentally. Those gifts helped me through the day we buried herMy mum was a PE teacher and coach. One of her early gifts was to help me feel like a physically capable female. For the couple of years before she died, my body had taken a battering, with illness and major surgery,...

Exclusive: Ipsa plans to reduce publication of claims for travel and venue hire after killing of David AmessThe UK’s parliamentary spending watchdog has begun redacting parts of MPs’ expenses to protect their safety since the killing of Sir David Amess.After the veteran MP was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery on Friday, some colleagues raised concerns with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa)...

In its second season, the star-studded Apple TV drama is a chaotic, uneven and ham-fisted yet compulsively watchable rumination on workplace ethics amid the pandemicWatching The Morning Show, Apple TV+’s messy, star-studded morning news drama whose second season premiered this fall, is for me a very vocal experience – the road from concept to execution so bumpy and the choices so chaotic as to...

Damning report highlights greater risk of EU worker exploitation and vulnerability of undocumented migrantsA damning new report on trafficking in the UK has warned that Brexit and the Home Office’s new plan for immigration are increasing the risks to trafficking victims.The report has also found links between terrorism and trafficking in cases involving families from the UK ending up with Islamic State in Syria...

The comic has come blazing out of lockdown fearless and on full throttle, buying a motorbike for her 50th birthday and turning the menopause – along with an incident in a park – into comedy gold‘I must tell you how old I’m going to be when I die,” says Bridget Christie, whipping out her phone to show me a small cartoon gravestone bearing the...

The climate emergency has been a wakeup call to everyone, and the ethologist and environmentalist is working as hard as ever to defeat it. She discusses horror, hope and heroism in her late 80sIn Jane Goodall’s new book, there is a vivid description of her “deep bond” with a beech tree in the garden of her childhood home in Bournemouth. She would climb into...

MPs propose raft of tough new measures aimed at getting more people to stop smokingIndividual cigarettes could have “smoking kills” printed on them under a raft of tough measures proposed by MPs to encourage more people to quit the deadly habit.MPs have submitted an amendment to the health and care bill going through parliament which would allow the health secretary to make graphic health...

Rebrand could position tech giant’s social media app as one of many products under a parent company which oversees the likes of Instagram, WhatsApp and OculusSocial media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about...

A default by the property giant could have far-reaching consequences for China and global economyThe rescue of embattled Chinese property company Evergrande appears to have stalled, leaving the developer on the brink of default and threatening to unleash contagion through the country’s giant real estate sector, home prices and the economy.The problems enveloping Evergrande, which has eyewatering total debts of $305bn, have hung over...

Key figures in Saudi Arabia and UAE accused of crimes against humanity include investors in Britain A group of human rights lawyers will on Wednesday file a legal complaint in the UK accusing key figures in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of being involved in war crimes relating to the war in Yemen.They plan to submit a dossier to British police and...

A small number of people become severely unwell with Covid even if they are fully vaccinated, but the data suggests they mostly suffer from other conditions as wellOn Tuesday, there were 356 Covid-19 patients being treated in intensive care wards throughout Australia. Of those, 25 were fully vaccinated.While the data points to the extraordinary efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines in preventing people from becoming severely...

Panel unanimously approves contempt of Congress citationTrump ally defied subpoena relating to 6 January insurrectionThe House select committee investigating the Capitol attack voted on Tuesday to recommend the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, after he defied a subpoena relating to their inquiry into the 6 January insurrection.The select committee approved the contempt of Congress citation unanimously, sending the report...

Special taskforce convened by IAEA to look into Aukus deal as Iran hints at fresh pursuit of its 2018 naval nuclear propulsion programThe head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has said other states could follow Australia’s example and seek to build nuclear-powered submarines, raising serious proliferation and legal concerns.Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said during a visit...