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UK unprepared for COP 26 conference, warn climate leaders

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UK unprepared for COP 26 conference, warn climate leaders Former UN climate envoy joins list of experts frustrated at Britain’s lack of leadershipThe UK is showing a “lack of coherence” in its leadership of vital UN climate crisis talks this year and giving the damaging impression that the talks are not a high priority, one of the world’s leading voices on the climate crisis has said.Mary Robinson, a former UN climate envoy and Ireland’s first female president, also said the perception that major British politicians, including the ex-prime minister David Cameron and former foreign secretary William Hague, were unwilling to take on the role of leading the COP 26 summit was damaging. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Tory candidate jailed for violent threats against Yvette Cooper

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Tory candidate jailed for violent threats against Yvette Cooper Joshua Spencer, 25, attended Cooper’s election count after arrest and received character reference from Tory MPA Conservative activist who sent messages claiming to have paid “crackheads” £100 to beat up the Labour MP Yvette Cooper and warned that “if you make peaceful revolution difficult you make a violent one inevitable” has been jailed for nine weeks.Joshua Spencer, who received a character reference from the Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns, attended Cooper’s general election count in December as a representative of the Conservative party despite being under investigation by West Yorkshire police after his arrest. Continue reading... Go to Source
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China trials anti-HIV drug on coronavirus patients

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China trials anti-HIV drug on coronavirus patients News of Kaletra being tested as a possible treatment for the disease sparks panic buying Coronavirus – latest newsA drug used to treat people with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is being trialled in patients in China as a possible therapy against the coronavirus.News that HIV drugs are being deployed in hospitals, however, has led to panic buying on the black market by people who fear they are ill or are going to get sick. They have been obtaining the drug, Kaletra, from generics companies in India and even from people with HIV in China willing to sell or donate their own stocks. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Armed ecoguards funded by WWF ‘beat up Congo tribespeople’

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Armed ecoguards funded by WWF 'beat up Congo tribespeople' Exclusive: Inquiry into $21.4m conservation project reports ‘credible’ evidence of abuseArmed ecoguards partly funded by the conservation group WWF to protect wildlife in the Republic of Congo beat up and intimidated hundreds of Baka pygmies living deep in the rainforests, an investigation into a landmark global conservation project has heard.A team of investigators sent to northern Congo by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to assess allegations of human rights abuses gathered “credible” evidence from different sources that hunter-gatherer Baka tribespeople living close to a proposed national park had been subjected to violence and physical abuse from the guards over years, according to a leaked draft ...
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At least 69 suicides linked to DWP’s handling of benefit claims

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Watchdog warns true number of cases where claimants took own lives as a result of DWP actions could be far higher The Department of Work and Pensions has investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants in the past six years and said this could be a small fraction of the total number of such deaths, a government watchdog has said.The National Audit Office (NAO) said it is unlikely this figure represents the true number of benefit-related suicides, in part because the DWP did not until recently actively seek information from coroners and other sources about such cases. Continue reading...
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Shamima Begum loses first stage of appeal against citizenship removal

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Shamima Begum loses first stage of appeal against citizenship removal Former schoolgirl who went to Syria to join Islamic State had citizenship revoked a year agoShamima Begum, the woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has lost the initial stage of her appeal against the Home Office’s move to revoke her citizenship and prevent her from returning to London.A judgment by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) found against Begum, now 20, on three grounds, including that she had not been improperly deprived of her citizenship. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Phillip Schofield, ITV presenter, comes out as gay

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Phillip Schofield, ITV presenter, comes out as gay ITV show host appeals for kindness, particularly to wife and daughters who support himPhillip Schofield, the co-presenter of ITV’s This Morning, has announced he is gay.In a statement released on the programme’s Twitter account, the presenter, who has been married to his wife for almost 27 years, paid tribute to his family. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Coronavirus: 41 more people, including British honeymooner, test positive on cruise ship – latest news

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Coronavirus: 41 more people, including British honeymooner, test positive on cruise ship – latest news Total infections pass 30,000 as Wuhan whistleblower doctor dies and North Korea confirms first case of virusDoctor who blew whistle over virus diesProfile of whistleblower doctorFirst British national to get virus had been in SingaporeShare your stories 11.44am GMTThe world is running out of masks and other gear to protect against the new coronavirus, the World Health Organization has warned.The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told the organisation’s executive board in Geneva:The world is facing a chronic shortage of personal protective equipment. 11.31am GMTA woman from China has taken ill at Copenhagen airport, prompting a small area to be cordoned off.The Copenhagen a...
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Give people right to ignore work emails at home, says Long-Bailey

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Give people right to ignore work emails at home, says Long-Bailey Labour leadership contender says she wants to end ‘24/7 work culture’Rebecca Long-Bailey has called for workers to be given the right to ignore work emails and messages outside working hours to end the “24/7 work culture” and protect mental health.The Labour leadership candidate said she would bring new ideas to the party, having worked on her policy positions for four years. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Jamaica deportations ‘must be halted until Windrush report published’

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Jamaica deportations 'must be halted until Windrush report published' Home Office warned against forced removal of about 50 people until report is released The advisory panel of a review into the Windrush scandal, including a former senior immigration judge, has warned against the resumption of mass deportation flights to Jamaica until after its report is published.Up to 50 people are due to be deported on Tuesday in what will be the second immigration removal charter flight to Jamaica since the Guardian exposed the scandal of the wrongful deportation of Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean in 2018. Continue reading... Go to Source
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‘Hero who told the truth’: Chinese rage over coronavirus death of whistleblower doctor

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'Hero who told the truth': Chinese rage over coronavirus death of whistleblower doctor Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang’s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger Coronavirus outbreak – latest updatesThe death of a whistleblowing Chinese doctor who was punished for trying to raise the alarm about coronavirus has sparked an explosion of anger, grief and demands for freedom of speech among ordinary Chinese.Li Wenliang, 34, died in the early hours of Friday local time after he was infected during the fight against the outbreak, said Wuhan central hospital, where he worked, in a statement. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Doctor who blew whistle over coronavirus has died, hospital says

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Doctor who blew whistle over coronavirus has died, hospital says Early reports of death of Li Wenliang were retracted, only for doctor to succumb to disease later in dayCoronavirus – latest developmentsA whistleblowing Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak has died, a Communist party-controlled newspaper has confirmed.Li Wenliang, 34, was declared dead at 2.58am local time on Friday morning after “emergency treatment” at a hospital in Wuhan, the Global Times reported, following hours of confusion over his fate. Continue reading... Go to Source
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Terror police’s Extinction Rebellion ‘risk report’ sent out a year ago

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Terror police's Extinction Rebellion 'risk report' sent out a year ago Police say Rising Up report was commissioned as group had a ‘large following’ and concluded XR was not a threatCounter-terrorism chiefs ordered a formal assessment of whether Extinction Rebellion was a national security threat one year ago and then sent a secret report about the group to police forces, the Guardian has learned.The revelation shows that counter-terrorism police’s interest in the non-violent climate emergency group began earlier and was more extensive than previously thought. Continue reading... Go to Source
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