Contest to lead ruling party and country appears to be two-horse race between Taro Kono and Fumio KishidaThe race to become leader of Japan’s ruling party and the next prime minister is too close to call ahead of next week’s party election. It is a rar…
Covid live: Novavax applies for WHO emergency use approval; 22% drop in positive tests in England in one week
Vaccine maker has agreement to provide 1.1bn doses to Covax; England reports lowest number of people testing positive since week to 30 JuneEngland’s Covid travel rules spark outrage around the worldFDA approves Pfizer booster shots for Americans ages 6…
16 million in Yemen ‘marching towards starvation’ as food rations run low – UN
Aid worker describes ‘horrific’ scenes in one hospital where starving and malnourished children ‘look like skeletons’At least 5 million people in Yemen are on the brink of famine and a further 16 million are “marching toward starvation”, as the country…
‘Corporate colonization’: small producers boycott UN food summit
Small-scale farmers and Indigenous groups say big ag offers only false and self-interested solutionsHundreds of civil society groups, academics and social movements are boycotting the first UN global food summit amid growing anger that the agenda has b…
New Zealand is no ‘off-grid’ safe haven from the apocalypse | Max Harris
From 19th-century colonists to today’s super wealthy, New Zealand has been wrongly depicted as a ‘blank slate’New Zealand has become the prime destination for the world’s wealthy elite. Their relocation could be to do with the country’s famous scenery …
Sweetheart review – good-natured caravan-park romance
Nell Barlow is the long-suffering gay teenager who falls for a lifeguard on holiday in Marley Morrison’s likably wistful debut The holiday romance coming-of-ager is the genre that’s given writer-director Marley Morrison her likable feature debut. And i…
US public health workers leaving ‘in droves’ amid pandemic burnout
Many workers feel stonewalled by elected officials and scapegoated for the high US Covid death tollAlexandra was working in the public health emergencies unit in a major north-eastern American city when the first wave of the pandemic hit. Although her …
UK warns Hong Kong security law critics of extradition risk posed by China
Activist Bill Browder warns of global reach of controversial law after being contacted by Foreign OfficeBritain has warned some Hong Kong critics in the UK about travelling abroad, according to high-profile human rights advocate Bill Browder, highlight…
Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink
We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheardThursday’s UN food summit proposes to help solve the world’s nutrition crisis, with 800 million people…
Forced from home: the humans and animals under threat – in pictures
Nick Brandt visited five animal sanctuaries in Africa to portray the people displaced by droughts and the creatures whose very existence is under threat Continue reading…