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Read More Coronavirus vaccine studies in Great Britain and China have both reported encouraging results. These projects are on the vanguard of vaccine development, but now they are awaiting large-scale tests. Coronavirus vaccine studies in Great Britain and China have both reported encouraging results. These projects are on the vanguard of vaccine development, but now…

Read More Domestic workers in Lebanon regularly suffer mistreatment and racism. An Ethiopian woman shares her experience of domestic work at a time when Lebanon is enduring an economic crisis. Domestic workers in Lebanon regularly suffer mistreatment and racism. An Ethiopian woman shares her experience of domestic work at a time when Lebanon is enduring…

Read More Mexican drug cartels have mounted increasingly brazen attacks against the state but have met only a weak response from Mexico’s government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mexican drug cartels have mounted increasingly brazen attacks against the state but have met only a weak response from Mexico’s government and President Andrés Manuel López…

Read More After Huawei ban and extradition suspension, next on the list are nuclear power and higher education When Mike Pompeo meets a group of Conservative backbench MPs on Tuesday who have been pressing for the UK to take a harder line on China, it will not be for a victory lap as some in…

Read More (WASHINGTON) — The House on Monday stood for an emotional moment of silence for Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died last week from pancreatic cancer. Speaker Nancy Pelosi gaveled the House to order, calling on “all who loved John Lewis, wherever you are, rise in a moment of silence…

Read More The British government announced that U.K. telecom carriers will be banned from installing new Huawei equipment for their 5G network by year’s end, effectively cutting China’s tech champion out of the country’s 5G future… a future which Chinese companies had grand plans to dominate. It’s time we acknowledge that the U.S. fight for…

Read More The British government announced that U.K. telecom carriers will be banned from installing new Huawei equipment for their 5G network by year’s end, effectively cutting China’s tech champion out of the country’s 5G future… a future which Chinese companies had grand plans to dominate. It’s time we acknowledge that the U.S. fight for…

Read MoreAuthorities say the attack on the home of Judge Salas, who has presided on high-profile cases, is being investigated.Authorities say the attack on the home of Judge Salas, who has presided on high-profile cases, is being investigated.

Read MoreMove comes as Libya gov’t and Turkey demand an end of foreign intervention in support of commander Khalifa Haftar.Move comes as Libya gov’t and Turkey demand an end of foreign intervention in support of commander Khalifa Haftar.

Read More Lengthy wait could prematurely force some into residential facilities, aged care groups warn More than 100,000 older Australians are waiting for at-home care packages they have already been approved for, with aged care groups warning the stagnating waiting list could prematurely force some into residential facilities. Updated figures from the Australian Institute of…

Read More Welcome to The D.C. Brief, the rebooted newsletter from TIME’s Washington Bureau. In this space, we are going to take our collected experience and deep reporting and offer a place for our readers to come and find out what’s really happening every day in the nation’s capital. We will be learning and adapting…

Read More Leaders in the global group Girl Up went to their annual conference — virtually — last week. We interviewed some of the attendees to see what’s changed during the coronavirus crisis. (Image credit: Zoom Screengrab by NPR) Leaders in the global group Girl Up went to their annual conference — virtually — last…

Read More RFE/RL was an unusual place, especially the canteen where people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would gather together with German staff and British and American researchers.RFE/RL was an unusual place, especially the canteen where people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would gather together with German staff and British and…

Read More John Yoo wrote memo used to justify waterboarding Trump keen to use executive orders and circumvent Congress The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree. Related: Watching Trump’s paramilitary squads descend on Portland, it’s…

Read MoreForeign Secretary Dominic Raab voiced concerns about new national security law and alleged human rights abuses in China.Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab voiced concerns about new national security law and alleged human rights abuses in China.

Read More NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 20 (IPS) – “The vision and promise of the United Nations is that food, healthcare, water and sanitation, education, decent work and social security are not commodities for sale to those who can afford them, but basic human rights to which we are all entitled.” Those were the poignant words…

Read More KATHMANDU, Jul 20 (IPS) – Nepal’s education system was in crisis long before the pandemic hit. But with schools closed now for four straight months, remote learning has also exposed the class divide in access to education. Read the full story, “Digital Divide Exposes Class Divide in Nepal Schools”, on globalissues.org → KATHMANDU,…

Read More (LONDON) — Britain’s government suspended its extradition arrangements with Hong Kong on Monday, after China imposed a tough new national security law. As tensions grow with Beijing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had concerns about the new law and about alleged human rights abuses in China in particularly in regard to the…

Read More Lost on the frontline is a project by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News to document the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. This is the current project status: We have identified reports of 821 frontline healthcare workers who died of Covid-19 We are independently confirming…

Read More Foreign secretary also bans export of riot control kit in response to security crackdown The UK is to immediately suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and also bar the export of riot control equipment following Beijing’s imposition of a sweeping national security law on the territory, Dominic Raab has announced. Speaking to…

Read More Charity report finds many vulnerable women struggled to access food, water and soap Women seeking asylum in the UK have described a significant increase in unsafe and unsanitary living conditions during the Covid-19 crisis, according to a report from a coalition of charities. The report, published by Sisters Not Strangers, which collated evidence…

Read MoreAstraZeneca says the trial data “increases our confidence that the vaccine will work and allows us to continue our plans to manufacture the vaccine at scale.”AstraZeneca says the trial data “increases our confidence that the vaccine will work and allows us to continue our plans to manufacture the vaccine at scale.”

Read More 4,000 music fans to attend gig as part of study into how virus spreads in large gatherings Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage German scientists are planning to equip 4,000 pop music fans with tracking gadgets and bottles of fluorescent disinfectant to get a clearer picture of how Covid-19 could…

Read More Physicists have achieved a world first which could revolutionize the field of medicine by measuring and studying a single, twisted nanoparticle in isolation, paving the way for microscopic ‘labs’ to replace traditional drugs. Researchers at the University of Bath employed a cutting-edge technique known as hyper-Rayleigh scattering optical activity (HRS OA) to examine…

Read MoreSix Pakistani pilots spoke to Al Jazeera about allegations of fraud and improper flight certification practices.Six Pakistani pilots spoke to Al Jazeera about allegations of fraud and improper flight certification practices.

Read MoreMonsoon rains caused havoc and a number of deaths in India’s capital Delhi.Monsoon rains caused havoc and a number of deaths in India’s capital Delhi.

Read More Eurovision 2019 presenter to serve community service while her mother is jailed An Israeli court has convicted one of the world’s most famous models, Bar Refaeli, on tax evasion charges, and jailed her mother, in a verdict that ends a lengthy case against the celebrity and her family. Wearing a face mask in…

Read More Berlin has systematically broken EU guidelines by selling weapons to bad actors across the globe, a new study says. It alleges that German-made arms and military hardware have led to more violence on the ground. Over the years, Germany has been selling both weapons and munitions to “countries affected by war and crisis,…

Read More KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 20 (IPS) – Kul Chandra Gautam is a former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, winner of the 2018 Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award conferred by the National Association of the American Peace Corps, and author of: ‘Global Citizen from Gulmi: My Journey from the Hills of Nepal to the Halls…

Read More Reductions to the coronavirus supplements will start from 28 September and include tighter eligibility requirements Sign up for Guardian Australia’s coronavirus email Download the free Guardian app to get the most important news notifications The Morrison government will reduce the level of income support paid out under the jobkeeper and jobseeker payments from…

Read MoreThe 20-year-old fell out of the window of her 6th-floor apartment in Moscow, police sources told Russian news agencies.The 20-year-old fell out of the window of her 6th-floor apartment in Moscow, police sources told Russian news agencies.

Read More UK secures agreement for 30m doses of drug being developed by BioNTech and Pfizer and a deal in principle for 60m doses of one by Valneva NHS denied PPE at height of Covid-19 as supplier prioritised China Test and trace failures risk exponential case growth in England Senior doctors warn second wave could…

Read More Trump refuses to commit to accepting election result White House bids to stop billions in track-and-trace funds Sign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.27pm BST Mike Pompeo is visiting the UK and Denmark over the next couple of days. The state department say that while he is on the trip he will…

Read More As NASA reports that five more asteroids are headed our way this week, four of which are over 50 meters in diameter, research from Brazil has identified some 19 space rocks of interstellar origin in our solar system. Scientists at Sao Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences have identified asteroids…

Read More Mick Fuller says Victoria’s protests put lives at risk but state health authorities have said ‘no known episodes of transmission occurred’ NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller has vowed he will go to court to block a Black Lives Matter protest planned for Sydney next week, citing the event’s potential to spread coronavirus. Fuller…