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Coronavirus: Europe on alert as three more deaths reported in Italy – updates Switzerland, Austria and Croatia report first cases as 1,000 hotel guests quarantined in Tenerife Tenerife coronavirus: 1,000 guests at hotel quarantinedIran’s deputy health minister: I have coronavirusTell us: have you been affected by the coronavirus?What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms? 5.32pm GMTAngelo Borrelli, the chief of the local Civil Protection agency, has said the three people who died were all in their 80s and came from the worst impacted region: Lombardy. 5.28pm GMTThere have been three further deaths in the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, according to a local official. The authorities say the number of virus cases in the country has grown to 322, with 10 deat...

David Steel quits Lib Dems after child abuse inquiry report Former Liberal leader failed to pass on allegations against Sir Cyril SmithLatest political developments - liveLord Steel has quit the Liberal Democrats after the inquiry into child sexual abuse said the political establishment spent decades turning “a blind eye” to allegations of child sexual abuseThe inquiry cited as an example the evidence of the former Liberal party leader, who told the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) inquiry last year how he failed to pass on allegations against prominent colleague Sir Cyril Smith, even though he believed them to be true, because it was “past history”. Continue reading... Go to Source

EU demands UK keep chlorinated chicken ban to get trade deal Exclusive: clause in negotiating mandate for Michel Barnier will create hurdle to US-UK dealAll the day’s political news - liveThe EU will demand that the UK maintains a ban on chlorinated chicken as the price for a trade agreement with Brussels, in a move that protects European meat exports and creates an obstacle to a deal with Donald Trump.On the recommendation of France, a clause has been inserted into the EU’s negotiating mandate to insist that both sides maintain “health and product sanitary quality in the food and agriculture sector”, according to a copy leaked to the Guardian. Continue reading... Go to Source

Coronavirus news: Tenerife hotel in lockdown as tourists tested – live updates H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel on lockdown after Italian tourist tests positive for virusFull story: 1,000 guests at hotel quarantinedSouth Korea: 200,000 sect members to be testedStocks fall as virus fears hit global marketsTell us: have you been affected by the coronavirus?What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms? 11.57am GMTTwo further developments have just been reported by Reuters.It appears that Austria has its first two cases of coronavirus, in the province of Tyrol. There’s no indication yet of the source of the outbreak, but Tyrol borders northern Italy where officials are struggling to contain a growing number of cases. 11.39am GMTBack in the City, the FTSE 100 index of leadin...

Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president ousted during Arab spring, dies at 91 Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was deposed following mass protests Egypt’s ousted former president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91, weeks after undergoing surgery, state television has announced.Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years until he was deposed following mass protests against his rule in 2011, during the Arab spring. He was jailed for years after the uprising, but was freed in 2017 after being acquitted of most charges. Continue reading... Go to Source

Tory MP apologises after exposing himself in pub James Grundy, MP for Leigh, dropped his trousers at private event in 2007A Conservative MP has apologised after he was filmed flashing his genitals in a pub.James Grundy dropped his trousers at a private event in the bar, with onlookers encouraging him to expose himself. The incident took place more than a decade before Grundy was elected as MP for Leigh, Greater Manchester, in 2019. Continue reading... Go to Source

Harvey Weinstein to face charges in Los Angeles after guilty verdict in New York LA case, announced before Manhattan trial began, focuses on charges for two alleged attacks over two daysThe verdict in the New York case against Harvey Weinstein is only the beginning of the movie mogul’s prosecution, with separate charges against the disgraced producer ahead in Los Angeles. In the most high-profile trial of the #MeToo movement yet, a New York jury on Monday found Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape for an attack in a New York hotel and guilty of a criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on a former television production assistant. The fallen titan of Hollywood, who was taken away in handcuffs, could face 25 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender. Continue readin...

Harvey Weinstein convicted of rape at New York trial Film mogul found guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and acquitted on three further chargesThe six women who accused Weinstein at his trial, and what they saidWeinstein verdict – liveHarvey Weinstein, the fallen titan of Hollywood whose sexual abuse of aspiring young female actors sparked the #MeToo movement, has finally been brought to justice after a New York jury found him guilty of two of the five charges he faced.The jury of seven men and five women at the New York supreme court took five days to reach their verdict. They found the defendant guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree for forcing oral sex on the former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. ...

Weinstein taken into custody after guilty verdict in landmark #MeToo trial – live Full report: New York jury finds ex-producer guilty of rapeKey moments from Weinstein’s trialEx-producer to be sentenced on 11 March 5.50pm GMTBefore he gets to lodge any appeal, Weinstein could face further legal jeopardy. Los Angeles authorities have charged him with raping and sexually assaulting two women over a two-day period in February 2013.It remains to be seen whether those prosecutions will proceed or whether they will be allowed to wither now that he is certain to face prison time in New York. One of the two women in the LA case was a “prior bad acts” witness in New York – Lauren Young, who told the jury how Weinstein had groped her in a hotel bathroom in Beverly Hills in...

The six women who accused Harvey Weinstein at his trial, and what they said The women represent a small portion of the more than 100 women who have made public allegations against WeinsteinHarvey Weinstein found guilty of rape - full reportWeinstein verdict – liveSix women took the witness stand in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein to offer descriptive accounts of how the disgraced mogul assaulted them within the last 30 years.Two of the women were seen as the main witnesses of the case as their accusations represent the main charges that Weinstein faced: five counts – two of rape, one of forcible oral sex and two of predatory sexual assault. The accusations of a third woman, actor Annabella Sciorra, supported a predatory sexual assault charge. Weinstein, 67, denied all cha...

‘His reputation will never recover’: the rape trial that took down Harvey Weinstein One of the most powerful men in Hollywood is unlikely to return to the top after reporting exposed decades of sexual harassment and assault allegationsHarvey Weinstein’s career in the movie business has risen and fallen as markedly as his famous temper.Long before he faced harassment and assault charges from scores of women he worked with over the years, and before he was the symbolic villain of the #MeToo movement paying top-dollar to fend off rape charges, Weinstein was busy defending himself from something much more ordinarily Hollywood: the notion he was a gigantic jerk. Continue reading... Go to Source

Coronavirus: Iran denies cover-up as six deaths reported in Italy Tehran rejects claim death toll is more than four times higher than official figures suggestCoronavirus latest – live updatesThe Iranian government has denied trying to cover up the full extent of an outbreak of the coronavirus, as Italy reported six deaths and officials across the Middle East and Europe scrambled to limit its spread.On Monday, a lawmaker from Qom – a Shia holy city 75 miles (120 km) south of the capital, Tehran, accused Iran’s health minister of lying about the scale of the outbreak. Continue reading... Go to Source

Driver arrested in Germany after car hits carnival crowds Children believed to be among 10 people injured at parade in town of VolkmarsenDozens of people have been injured, some of them children, after a local man appeared to deliberately drive a car into a carnival parade procession in the central German town of Volkmarsen, police have said.The driver was arrested but police could not immediately provide details about the man’s motives, although Bild newspaper cited a spokesman, Henning Hinn, as saying they were “working on the assumption that it was a deliberate act”. Continue reading... Go to Source