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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson sets out new restrictions to last 'perhaps six months' PM announces 10pm closing for pubs, a ban on indoor team sports and new weddings curbsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK is at a “perilous turning point” and must act, Boris Johnson has told MPs, announcing new restrictions for England including slashing the size of wedding celebrations and bans on indoor team sports, as well as a return to home working.Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Johnson announced a ban on indoor team sports, such as five-a-side football, and said plans for a partial return of sports fans to stadiums from 1 October had been “paused”. Wedding celebrations will be limited to just 15 guests, half of the number previously permitted, though funerals will...

Zaghari-Ratcliffe files report of Revolutionary Guards harassment British-Iranian woman under house arrest in Tehran sends details to prosecutor’s officeThe British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has claimed she is being harassed at her parents’ home in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards officers as she remains under house arrest awaiting the date of a second trial.In her report of the incident to the Tehran prosecutors’ office, she said Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officers had come to the house on Tuesday morning and falsely accused her of breaking the tag she was fitted with when she was given a temporary release from prison in March on furlough. She was warned she would be taken back to the revolutionary courts. Continue reading... Go to Source

UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson says new restrictions 'likely to remain in force for six months' Prime minister announces new rules on face coverings and weddings for England as he also encourages more people to work from homeBoris Johnson sets out new Covid restrictions at ‘perilous turning point’Work from home if you can, says Michael GoveKeir Starmer tells Labour conference: we deserved to lose electionGlobal coronavirus updates – live 1.02pm BST Jeremy Hunt (Con), chair of the health committee, says he supports the measures.He says testing has been transformed. “But we are not there yet.” What can the PM say to a school offered just 10 tests every three weeks if they are worried about asymptomatic cases? 1.00pm BST This is what Johnson said about the new rules.First, we are once ...

Keir Starmer tells Labour conference: we deserved to lose election Starmer uses first party conference speech as leader to set out how Labour has changedKeir Starmer has staked out his intention to make Labour a “competent, credible” opposition, using his first conference speech as leader to promise a new beginning for the party and to say that under Jeremy Corbyn it deserved to lose the 2019 election.Making the speech in a near-empty arts centre in Doncaster as part of Labour’s virtual conference, Starmer condemned Boris Johnson in deeply personal terms, calling the prime minister fundamentally unserious, and “just not up to the job”. Continue reading... Go to Source

Face shields ineffective at trapping aerosols, says Japanese supercomputer Simulation using world’s fastest supercomputer casts doubt on effectiveness in preventing spread of coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePlastic face shields are almost totally ineffective at trapping respiratory aerosols, according to modelling in Japan, casting doubt on their effectiveness in preventing the spread of coronavirus.A simulation using Fugaku, the world’s fastest supercomputer, found that almost 100% of airborne droplets of less than 5 micrometres in size escaped through plastic visors of the kind often used by people working in service industries. Continue reading... Go to Source

Trump races to fill supreme court seat as Republicans fall into line Democrats’ hopes of keeping seat empty fade as two key Republican senators signal support for moving quicklyDonald Trump has raced to cement a conservative majority on the US supreme court before the presidential election on 3 November, and Democrats’ hopes of keeping the seat empty have faded as two Republican senators signalled their support for moving quickly.The president said on Monday he would name his third supreme court nominee on Friday or Saturday, following memorials for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the liberal justice who died aged 87 on Friday. Continue reading... Go to Source

'We should be ashamed': Lord Dubs berates UK ministers over Lesbos refugees Labour peer calls on government to take in children left homeless by fire at camp on Greek islandA Labour peer who masterminded a change in the law that forced the government to give sanctuary to child asylum seekers has branded the UK’s lack of action over a devastating fire at a migrant camp in Greece an “absolute disgrace”.Alf Dubs, a former child refugee, called on the government to follow the lead of other European nations and take in some of the thousands of asylum seekers left without shelter following the blaze on the Greek island of Lesbos. Continue reading... Go to Source