Follow The Guardian - World, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, Whatsapp etc.) https://follow.it/the-guardian-d-world Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:34:30 GMT FeedCreatorClass 1.0 dev (follow.it) https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7YMlmU1HO5R2JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFehdufyas9CAvPp_dZDgRnilpK-p9JyhT4mlBeW7zRrghvHvb7u2hOMMHqtR2nBUu7empD3em2zaUxaPALqcZPg1KysYTTdg-Etq8hkOdRIL_vaRn8uvegyOKA1oK3fg4QhXhs__N7oRL_mGF8OabHLx8jU-wn4Dt <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043110/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043110" title="Story 395043110"> <p>President will give address on racial equality this afternoon after senators are sworn in for Trump impeachment</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/us-house-delivers-article-of-impeachment-trump-2021">House delivered article of impeachment against Donald Trump to Senate</a><br></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-trial">President Joe Biden says impeachment trial ‘has to happen’</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/26/trump-campaign-distances-itself-from-new-patriot-party">Trump campaign distances itself from new ‘Patriot party’</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/sep/17/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed">Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email</a></li></ul><p class="block-time published-time"><time datetime="2021-01-26T12:52:05.255Z">12.52pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time></p><p>Also on the foreign policy front, one of the Biden administration’s most pressing task will be to develop a relationship with China. Joe McDonald and Paul Wiseman have written for Associated Press today how they think that might play out.</p><p>They report that economists say Biden won’t confront Beijing right away because he wants to focus on the coronavirus and the economy. But he looks set to renew pressure over trade and technology grievances that prompted Donald Trump to hike tariffs on Chinese imports in 2017.</p><p class="block-time published-time"><time datetime="2021-01-26T12:34:02.237Z">12.34pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time></p><p>A quick foreign policy snap from Reuters here, that <strong>Iran has threatened to block short-notice inspections of its nuclear facilities by the United Nations atomic agency</strong> as it presses Joe Biden’s new administration to reverse the economic sanctions imposed on Tehran by Donald Trump.</p><p>Trump pulled Washington out of Iran’s 2015 nuclear pact with world powers in 2018 and reimposed US sanctions that had been lifted under it, prompting Tehran to violate its conditions. Biden has said he will rejoin the pact if Tehran resumes strict compliance.</p><p></p><p>In July 2015, Iran and a six-nation negotiating group reached a landmark agreement known as the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/iran-nuclear-deal-full-text-of-joint-comprehensive-plan-of-action">Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/14/iran-nuclear-deal-expected-to-be-announced-in-vienna">ended a 12-year deadlock</a>&nbsp;over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The deal, struck in Vienna after nearly two years of intensive talks, limited the Iranian programme, to reassure the rest of the world that it cannot develop nuclear weapons, in return for sanctions relief.<br></p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jan/26/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-kamala-harris-nancy-pelosi-covid-coronavirus-live-updates">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:52:05 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7YMlmU1HO5R2JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFehdufyas9CAvPp_dZDgRnilpK-p9JyhT4mlBeW7zRrghvHvb7u2hOMMHqtR2nBUu7empD3em2zaUxaPALqcZPg1KysYTTdg-Etq8hkOdRIL_vaRn8uvegyOKA1oK3fg4QhXhs__N7oRL_mGF8OabHLx8jU-wn4Dt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7RJrTT6YGJqDJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54Z8hkRsv33y5DyHXMeEQhMGGeKKTUjnYJbcevnsfIGfUjPbm3JfK-EwUruhA-0YP8ZXRwiFKe27w1uDK5K8q3LIR1C-9EDm3hw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043109/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043109" title="Story 395043109"> <p>Red Cross returns registration papers, many of which belonged to Jews sent to Nazi death camps </p><p>The registration cards of nearly 160,000 Dutch Jews, many of whom were destined for Nazi death camps, will be put on display for the first time in the National Holocaust museum in Amsterdam after being handed over by the Red Cross.</p><p>The cards include name, address, date of birth, profession, marital status, family composition and, in three out of four cases, the date of their transport to a concentration camp written in red pencil. They fell into the hands of the Red Cross after the war and were used to locate missing persons.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/registration-cards-dutch-jews-display-holocaust-museum-amsterdam">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:41:41 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7RJrTT6YGJqDJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54Z8hkRsv33y5DyHXMeEQhMGGeKKTUjnYJbcevnsfIGfUjPbm3JfK-EwUruhA-0YP8ZXRwiFKe27w1uDK5K8q3LIR1C-9EDm3hw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7c45Xl1mw6fHJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6d1iC5QbJBzGXgL-BVzmdjEpaSvqfScoU5PdmXwbBsvdw0UoZcAM_MURM62JHnYjIn0v0S5TPQiTchANSH2XbLRNcdsLjwANTfUhNNi97VIe <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043107/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043107" title="Story 395043107"> <p>At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents<br></p><p>For as long as she can remember, Maria Diemar has known she was adopted. Her Swedish parents were always open about her Chilean heritage, and growing up in Stockholm in the 1970s and 80s with brown skin and dark hair, it was impossible not to notice she was different.</p><p>When she was 11, Diemar’s parents showed her the papers that arrived with her in Sweden as a two-month-old baby in 1975. The file on her parentage offered a brief, unflattering portrait of a teenage mother who sent her newborn girl to be raised by strangers on the other side of the world. “They said she was a live-in maid, that she had a son who lived with her parents, and that she was poor,” recalled Diemar.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/26/chile-stolen-children-international-adoption-sweden">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:29:52 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7c45Xl1mw6fHJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6d1iC5QbJBzGXgL-BVzmdjEpaSvqfScoU5PdmXwbBsvdw0UoZcAM_MURM62JHnYjIn0v0S5TPQiTchANSH2XbLRNcdsLjwANTfUhNNi97VIe https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7VRPqDJ3wxtdJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhO3vHGBpnJsgpaSvqfScoU1ENqNSom3cD-GjafoWp9Hb6zlHsFLd4jV4Cy7B0n1BipiBDbiVjAZidW2a_vLUjNCuKpkelPLKqInU2y1i9C31o2TCHhOV89w1dlagAj9lR <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043105/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043105" title="Story 395043105"> <p>Unsure what to do with that tin of goop at the back of the cupboard? These brilliant sweet and savoury dishes will make the most of it<br></p><p>There comes a point in everyone’s life when you look – really look – at black treacle and, instead of seeing a familiar larder mainstay, decide that it is an unpalatably bitter, weirdly coloured, metallic-tasting goop. This is why everyone has an almost full tin of treacle in their cupboard. But don’t be so quick to write it off: this is an ingredient that can shine, given the right treatment. These are the recipes you should make to use it all up.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jan/26/10-delicious-treacle-recipes-from-the-classic-tart-to-dumpling-and-gingerbread">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:56:27 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7VRPqDJ3wxtdJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhO3vHGBpnJsgpaSvqfScoU1ENqNSom3cD-GjafoWp9Hb6zlHsFLd4jV4Cy7B0n1BipiBDbiVjAZidW2a_vLUjNCuKpkelPLKqInU2y1i9C31o2TCHhOV89w1dlagAj9lR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7XjC_cfVk5p6JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6U2_SlnR6py3hOy6lor0nq9eU5sfUfqO3_eMqfm9Q71oXoCGgoiLyWHuMtc-L5cd27XlUtEplzqOcMjFwvCGl93rvNskB5kvzQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043103/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043103" title="Story 395043103"> <p>Officials have just weeks to slash costs, prompting fears that speed of cuts could ‘cost lives’</p><p>British diplomats have been instructed to find at least 50% cuts in UK overseas aid in the next six weeks in advance of the next financial year, the Labour party has said.</p><p>Sarah Champion, the chair of parliament’s international development select committee, said: “Our ambassadors have today been instructed by the Foreign Office to cut 50-70% from the aid budget.”</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/26/uk-cut-overseas-aid-budget-costs">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:39:52 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7XjC_cfVk5p6JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6U2_SlnR6py3hOy6lor0nq9eU5sfUfqO3_eMqfm9Q71oXoCGgoiLyWHuMtc-L5cd27XlUtEplzqOcMjFwvCGl93rvNskB5kvzQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7Qnu_Jvitz5jJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QzSiDGMu-sKHlR9FTbjcdxK1XrrfTQ54dakBhK0-tjkUXyiZs4A8aepbzC8SyChSI62PZINvR6PnFH-S3INlQNb-ouu8lO3kg8xMs1IgK5eVoYD5RIVu_tWHNYpCESLeZ2VAeMuJCYBlgFEAcPAC-Q31xT1TZkkUw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043101/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043101" title="Story 395043101"> <p>My new novel is about a midwife’s daughter in the old American west. The peril pregnant women underwent, then and now, became all too vivid once I became a parent<br></p><p>Childbirth in the 19th century was a dangerous affair. Women routinely came down with <a href="https://www.medicinenet.com/puerperal_fever/definition.htm">puerperal fever</a>, an infection of the uterus that could lead to sepsis and death. Others suffered a <a href="https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0401/p442.html">postpartum haemorrhage</a>: heavy bleeding that, if not stopped, could also claim their lives. Some experienced <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/eclampsia#:~:text=Eclampsia%20is%20a%20severe%20complication,and%20convulsions%20(violent%20shaking).">eclampsia</a>, a condition in which skyrocketing blood pressure could cause fatal seizures. In 1900, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4838a2.htm#:~:text=From%201915%20through%201997%2C%20the,Figure%201%20and%20Figure%202).">six to nine women died</a> for every 1,000 births, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2020/202001_MMR.htm">more than 30 times</a> the rate today.</p><p>I learned these facts when I started researching my latest novel, Outlawed, an alternate history following a midwife’s daughter on the run across the American west in 1894. I needed a working understanding of obstetrics and gynaecology of the era to give it verisimilitude. So I read about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section">the history of the C-section</a>, which, at least in Europe, was generally a fatal procedure until about the 1880s, though there are reports of women surviving it as early as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1034600/pdf/medhist00171-0021.pdf">the second century CE</a>. I learned about the discovery of egg cells, which was the subject of <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1439-0531.2012.02105.x">heated debate in the 1670s</a> between the Dutch doctor Reinier de Graaf (who demonstrated their existence by dissecting rabbits shortly after mating) and his rival Jan Swammerdam (who liked to travel with a human uterus and other “items of genital anatomy”). I studied <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/">the composition of early baby formula</a>, which, in 16th and 17th-century Europe, often consisted of bread soaked in milk, fed to infants from a “pap boat” that was unfortunately hard to clean and prone to accumulating bacteria.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/26/i-enjoyed-researching-the-bloody-history-of-childbirth-then-i-had-a-baby-outlawed-anna-north">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:32:10 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7Qnu_Jvitz5jJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QzSiDGMu-sKHlR9FTbjcdxK1XrrfTQ54dakBhK0-tjkUXyiZs4A8aepbzC8SyChSI62PZINvR6PnFH-S3INlQNb-ouu8lO3kg8xMs1IgK5eVoYD5RIVu_tWHNYpCESLeZ2VAeMuJCYBlgFEAcPAC-Q31xT1TZkkUw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7cJJYB-070EoJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjO2ibXTexVW4oCKc0Pi-hA58OWIiN4OBZog8AipjxRyJ6-u-bcR5389C-1M3Ruf-gR_6YQwbDALl_tpraMbApgpsZAEeddwTphdsl7ZtC4wne6NVgzubNDA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043100/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043100" title="Story 395043100"> <p>Ten of the world’s most infectious diseases identified by the WHO not being catered for by drug firms</p><p>The world’s biggest pharmaceutical firms are little prepared for the next pandemic despite a mounting response to the Covid-19 outbreak, an independent report has warned.</p><p>Jayasree K Iyer, executive director of the Netherlands-based <a href="http://www.accesstomedicineindex.org/">Access to Medicine Foundation</a>, a not-for-profit organisation funded by the UK and Dutch governments and others, highlighted an outbreak of the Nipah virus in China, with a fatality rate of up to 75%, as potentially the next big pandemic risk.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/26/pharmaceutical-giants-not-ready-for-next-pandemic-report-warns">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:30:01 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRtPng0KwbaJ7cJJYB-070EoJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjO2ibXTexVW4oCKc0Pi-hA58OWIiN4OBZog8AipjxRyJ6-u-bcR5389C-1M3Ruf-gR_6YQwbDALl_tpraMbApgpsZAEeddwTphdsl7ZtC4wne6NVgzubNDA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpV6m-EaFsJ_kJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6U2_SlnR6py3hOy6lor0nq9eU5sfUfqO3_eMqfm9Q71oXoCGgoiLyWE7k9ZDmMY3U9pnBt7CuQi8uD5Y38jQW5NRb-pBRm1fZ1KgrG1vQmGzFDPWuhGuhTOXfIdT9QWTLfzeqN7zeCSl9sKr6isl0NE <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043099/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043099" title="Story 395043099"> <p>International development committee tells government that pandemic and foreign aid cuts fuelling poverty and food insecurity</p><p>Billions of dollars of debt owed by poor countries must be permanently cancelled in order to stave off a “looming financial tsunami” caused by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">Covid-19</a> and the ensuing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/globalrecession">global recession</a>, a cross-party committee of MPs has warned.</p><p>Debt relief will not be enough to help the world’s most vulnerable economies as they face skyrocketing levels of hunger and unemployment, according to an <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/98/international-development-committee/publications/">inquiry</a> into Covid-19’s secondary impacts in developing countries, published on Tuesday by the House of Commons international development committee (IDC).</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/26/uk-must-cancel-poor-countries-debt-or-face-covid-19-financial-tsunami">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:23:38 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpV6m-EaFsJ_kJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6U2_SlnR6py3hOy6lor0nq9eU5sfUfqO3_eMqfm9Q71oXoCGgoiLyWE7k9ZDmMY3U9pnBt7CuQi8uD5Y38jQW5NRb-pBRm1fZ1KgrG1vQmGzFDPWuhGuhTOXfIdT9QWTLfzeqN7zeCSl9sKr6isl0NE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpSatXJcIT5r5JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54Z-BLAp3tKbXxyuMS80gIAERz5El4KwrjT8kRqmKwG9kc_1qC9-XietpwidRe6o4vag1NKtfGMRsAYmE1o-UsxunxJYBT7vpAA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043097/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043097" title="Story 395043097"> <p>Exporting to countries under sanctions and embargos is ‘systematic failure to consider human rights records’</p><p>British ministers and officials have approved the sale of arms to nearly four-fifths of countries subject to arms embargos, trade sanctions or other restrictions over the past five years, according to analysis.</p><p>The UK has exported military hardware to 58 countries of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/current-arms-embargoes-and-other-restrictions#arms-embargo-trade-sanctions-and-other-trade-restrictions">the 73 listed as subject to restrictions</a> by the Department for International Trade (DIT), including sniper rifles to Pakistan, assault rifles to Kenya and naval equipment to China.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/uk-sells-arms-to-nearly-80-of-countries-under-restrictions-shows-report">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:08:30 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpSatXJcIT5r5JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54Z-BLAp3tKbXxyuMS80gIAERz5El4KwrjT8kRqmKwG9kc_1qC9-XietpwidRe6o4vag1NKtfGMRsAYmE1o-UsxunxJYBT7vpAA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpQlt6LtvZ36qJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54bJldu0WjE3xkQCnj9Xzthtm2d0EdEmKxzZ9PRJtoorK20FqmqXDGWvYtgaT-OJOlDbLKo_8R_ZRADjuitgYprMXHb8Xt91anw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043095/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043095" title="Story 395043095"> <p>Report said ministers expected EU regulator’s assessment to show jab was only 8% effective among over-65s</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>The German government has challenged reports of a lower-than-expected efficacy rate of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for older people, while reiterating concerns about the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant’s data reporting.</p><p>An article in German business daily Handelsblatt had reported that the German government was expecting the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) assessment to show the AstraZeneca vaccine to be only 8% effective among the over-65s, describing it a “setback for Berlin’s vaccination strategy”.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/german-government-challenges-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-efficacy-reports">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:07:20 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpQlt6LtvZ36qJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54bJldu0WjE3xkQCnj9Xzthtm2d0EdEmKxzZ9PRJtoorK20FqmqXDGWvYtgaT-OJOlDbLKo_8R_ZRADjuitgYprMXHb8Xt91anw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpUngZqoGdQehJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6b3ivdzT5H1vKra9eojbE4Jw6S5_foWIqSlpK-p9JyhTnbIAGSGPBzgN4emPtKM4iLjTBTm4lQQgBf6O66UR0_mOb-u14WSw3pJWPpwNVL4DKWE9kQTBtNaw6pdgMfOT27VVLT7UEL48 <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043094/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043094" title="Story 395043094"> <p>Despite appearing on reality TV as a teenager, I’ve never been a fan of the genre. But Housewives is different – and I’ve become an evangelist for its illicit thrill and numbing quality</p><p>Already, 2021 has had no shortage of sobering moments. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/armie-hammer-cannibalism-sext-scandal-1115309/">Armie Hammer (allegedly) being a cannibal</a>. <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13754545/azealia-banks-dead-cat-jaw-bones-earrings-dug-boiled/">Azealia Banks boiling her dead cat</a>. The pandemic refusing to evaporate like Cinderella’s stagecoach the second we bellowed “happy new year” into the eerie silence of our living rooms. But none has been more sobering than the moment when I realised that I have watched more than 190 hours of Real Housewives during lockdown.</p><p>It was especially startling because I had never considered myself much of a reality TV fan. Certainly not the type of lunatic who dedicates hours to watching extremely privileged women scream about whether or not they have Munchausen’s. Having <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jan/29/shipwrecked-channel-four-new-series">appeared on reality TV as a teenager</a>, I felt as though I understood the format and took for granted that much of the action is stage-managed. I reasoned that, if I was going to watch people ham it up unconvincingly, I could watch Pose, or a Boris Johnson press conference. But Housewives is different.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jan/26/how-my-real-housewives-addiction-has-seen-me-through-the-pandemic">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:00:01 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpUngZqoGdQehJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6b3ivdzT5H1vKra9eojbE4Jw6S5_foWIqSlpK-p9JyhTnbIAGSGPBzgN4emPtKM4iLjTBTm4lQQgBf6O66UR0_mOb-u14WSw3pJWPpwNVL4DKWE9kQTBtNaw6pdgMfOT27VVLT7UEL48 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpeWfknnxp1pPJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aJJB1kGrbw6UKCDh11h6ExK1XrrfTQ54dhfG0g9XjNKKPC24Yz2F5QRenllSKWnRiUz5mKV_RA83JJq33oIZURHEts0FOkdCki97HV37XDpgjyI6KWVTBKAMamgrFOnNoxt1n8j01V4hd-a5QBUkxFo5R5JDEPlNDQ46AKjkH7PL4ixZwVN9EY <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043092/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043092" title="Story 395043092"> <p>Excavated Shellac rejects the western canon of pop, rock, jazz, classical and more to champion 78rpm gems from overlooked corners of the world – ‘an alternate universe’, according to the man behind it</p><p>Imagine an anthology of 20th-century music making that purposely ignored pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and opera. Cue outrage, at least from English-speaking listeners. But away from the western canon that has come to dominate our conception of music-making, much of the world was busy creating swathes of very different, extremely beautiful music.</p><p>These overlooked styles are collated on a new 100-track compilation, <a href="https://dust-digital.com/shop/excavated-shellac">An Alternate History of the World’s Music</a>, and presumptuous as it may seem to announce that the best album of 2021 has already been released, to my mind it’s unlikely it will be topped. Helmed by Dust-to-Digital, the US label that has done a magnificent job with box sets chronicling overlooked areas of pre-second world war music, the digital release also features a 186-page ebook (complete with beautiful illustrations like the ones here), in which every tune gets discussed – the first is a South African miner’s protest against police brutality, the last a sultry Cuban dance tune whose singers sound like they might have been hitting the rum while recording. This sonic smorgasbord from across the globe lives up to the provocative title, with music from Afghanistan, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia, Uganda, Spain, Albania, Mongolia, Mexico and elsewhere. Ever wondered what the Crimean Tartar Orchestra might sound like? Well, their raucous, minor key, brass party music is fabulous.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/26/kyrgyzstan-ballads-okinawan-folk-ugandan-hymns-the-album-rewriting-global-music-history-excavated-shellac">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:35:55 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpeWfknnxp1pPJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aJJB1kGrbw6UKCDh11h6ExK1XrrfTQ54dhfG0g9XjNKKPC24Yz2F5QRenllSKWnRiUz5mKV_RA83JJq33oIZURHEts0FOkdCki97HV37XDpgjyI6KWVTBKAMamgrFOnNoxt1n8j01V4hd-a5QBUkxFo5R5JDEPlNDQ46AKjkH7PL4ixZwVN9EY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpVu_k-TWjbK7JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54YRp3q4iOVjTWZrZRWqQQhfKPdgmvOmMCMuYYl_-bq3vKt7paTnYRy1NHN9eZxnN6Xzhs3JgcET_ywgoo4DX0WruHtn4UW0ZlA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043091/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043091" title="Story 395043091"> <p>One man died after rejection from 10 hospitals as country passes one million cases of coronavirus </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>Health experts in Indonesia have warned that hospitals in some areas are on the brink of collapse as the nation passed one million confirmed cases of coronavirus.</p><p>In one case, a man died after he was turned away from 10 hospitals, including three in Jakarta, with doctors under greater strain that an any time in the pandemic.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/covid-patients-turned-away-as-hospitals-in-indonesia-face-collapse">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:25:12 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpVu_k-TWjbK7JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54YRp3q4iOVjTWZrZRWqQQhfKPdgmvOmMCMuYYl_-bq3vKt7paTnYRy1NHN9eZxnN6Xzhs3JgcET_ywgoo4DX0WruHtn4UW0ZlA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpWShiwoz-0dLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54aYR7hs5RNKb0BtlvpXGS6yG-oPQg0j1IqySyH9mcO0psbo7QICZLYu6d5BzVo_Mola4DRSaGSEa <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043089/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043089" title="Story 395043089"> <p>Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws enter grounds of historic fort as violence breaks out</p><p>Farmers protesting against <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/farmers-delhi-protest-india-modi">new agriculture laws</a> in India have broken through police barricades around the capital and entered the grounds of Delhi’s historic Red Fort, in chaotic and violent scenes that overshadowed the country’s Republic Day celebrations.</p><p>Police hit protesters with batons and fired teargas to try to disperse the crowds after hundreds of thousands of farmers, many on tractors or horses, marched on the capital on Tuesday. One protester was confirmed to have died in the clashes and dozens of police and protestors were injured.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/violent-clashes-as-indian-farmers-storm-delhis-red-fort">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:15:14 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpWShiwoz-0dLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54aYR7hs5RNKb0BtlvpXGS6yG-oPQg0j1IqySyH9mcO0psbo7QICZLYu6d5BzVo_Mola4DRSaGSEa https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpQjKTAHqu9tgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjhcFrF6933EUoCKc0Pi-hA7p34cpRJn1a1Qd7vZj9OOD0cBzO4zOwFu3f1vEkuQVw-HnUp5UH_Z5gwU0PIRZvVJFwh4frzaoNjV3wVwIKamtsEDVlx_t6qAJJImcWOTzyrdCggKlhQ4o <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043086/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043086" title="Story 395043086"> <p>Ever since Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine for smallpox there have been opportunistic people willing to spread misinformation. As the Covid-19 vaccines are administered, what’s the best way to counter them?</p><p>Sarah and her brother Benjamin (not their real names) have never seen eye to eye. She’s a professional scientist, he – according to Sarah’s description – is someone who is susceptible to conspiracy theories. They maintained an uneasy truce until a few weeks ago. Tensions came to a head when Sarah was on the phone to her mum, talking her through the online procedure to book a slot for her Covid-19 vaccination.</p><p>If she was still having trouble after they rang off, Sarah suggested, she could ask Benjamin to come over and help. Mother and son live close by and a long way from Sarah; they’ve shared a bubble this past year. “There was a silence,” Sarah says. “And then she replied that he didn’t want to. He’s against the vaccine. Well, that was it for me. You can’t help your 77-year-old mum do something that might save her life? I’m sorry, that’s wrong.”</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/26/could-understanding-the-history-of-anti-vaccine-sentiment-help-us-to-overcome-it">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:00:59 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpQjKTAHqu9tgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjhcFrF6933EUoCKc0Pi-hA7p34cpRJn1a1Qd7vZj9OOD0cBzO4zOwFu3f1vEkuQVw-HnUp5UH_Z5gwU0PIRZvVJFwh4frzaoNjV3wVwIKamtsEDVlx_t6qAJJImcWOTzyrdCggKlhQ4o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpWeICUeE1JnUJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjO2ibXTexVW4oCKc0Pi-hAxbp-YD_CpG41AARNero4Ws8gRt-R6isd7hLgCezHLkoQ2rX_6jIq0GfyhIIJILOSW1RyVzM_RTH <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043087/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043087" title="Story 395043087"> <p>Canines in Hungarian study appear to pick up unfamiliar terms through play</p><p>Whether you can teach an old dog new tricks might be a moot point, but it seems some canines can rapidly learn new words, and do so through play.</p><p>While young children are known to quickly pick up the names of new objects, the skill appears to be rare in animals.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/26/you-can-teach-an-old-dog-new-words-researchers-find">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:00:59 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpWeICUeE1JnUJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjO2ibXTexVW4oCKc0Pi-hAxbp-YD_CpG41AARNero4Ws8gRt-R6isd7hLgCezHLkoQ2rX_6jIq0GfyhIIJILOSW1RyVzM_RTH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpeR2CqmCRw5RJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4EN5VepL0Xe0ZStIReCZq52rQDz7Ffu9rDWNHFdSti6F4ujGzbPXkCzPjYKwFZWKozxUlHP3Hdc_whEs3mqqC1oY6tXLVcTIIwPxjkuT4Fk526shnb_HOn_Bw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043085/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043085" title="Story 395043085"> <p>Surf Life Saving NSW says enthusiasm for the water after a year dominated by Covid has resulted in a spike in drownings</p><p>A teenage boy has died a day after he was pulled from the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney as the national summer drowning toll approaches 60.</p><p>Emergency services were called to the river at Sackville on Monday about midday and the unresponsive 16-year-old was pulled from the water.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/26/teenage-boy-dies-in-hospital-a-day-after-being-pulled-from-the-hawkesbury-river">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:44:06 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpeR2CqmCRw5RJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4EN5VepL0Xe0ZStIReCZq52rQDz7Ffu9rDWNHFdSti6F4ujGzbPXkCzPjYKwFZWKozxUlHP3Hdc_whEs3mqqC1oY6tXLVcTIIwPxjkuT4Fk526shnb_HOn_Bw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpciL1VJioNmJJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54ZOr4sZi9oRRn7f2RxfkGTQnMOkzq0e0QCBW0MlYejiiIXEnwJVLm3Vf0mOf4jc0PEjDLM0iWX-mcwyQiAF8fD4 <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043083/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043083" title="Story 395043083"> <p>About 150 anti-lockdown protesters arrested after shops looted and cars set alight in several towns and cities</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>A third night of rioting has shaken the Netherlands as protesters rampaged through towns and cities around the country after government introduced a night-time curfew.</p><p>About 150 people were arrested on Monday in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where shops were vandalised and looted, and the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, issued an emergency decree giving police broader powers of arrest.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/netherlands-third-night-riots-covid-curfew-lockdown-protesters">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:36:43 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpciL1VJioNmJJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54ZOr4sZi9oRRn7f2RxfkGTQnMOkzq0e0QCBW0MlYejiiIXEnwJVLm3Vf0mOf4jc0PEjDLM0iWX-mcwyQiAF8fD4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpZ2r-zrh14lsJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54XuEN7A2WXEninoWg5fymyCelRt7UW9ekaIKMqX2fttSS0kSSxQswH8woA2W1JNDuQPaQupCS3e5nn1KF7WTwMU <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043082/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043082" title="Story 395043082"> <p>Handling of earliest cases early last year provided ominous foretaste of things to come </p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/timeline-of-the-uks-first-recorded-covid-cases-last-year">Timeline of the first Covid cases in the UK</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/coronavirus-live/latest">Coronavirus – latest updates</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/coronavirus-outbreak">See all our coronavirus coverage</a></li></ul><p>The handling of the first two cases of Covid in the UK a year ago this week provided an ominous foretaste of the country’s response to the pandemic, according to those caught up in the incident.</p><p>On 30 January last year the official threat level from coronavirus was moved from “low” to “moderate”, as rescue flights were organised for 273 people stranded in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak began.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/covid-in-the-uk-how-first-cases-exposed-flaws-in-response">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:19:37 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpZ2r-zrh14lsJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp1K1XrrfTQ54XuEN7A2WXEninoWg5fymyCelRt7UW9ekaIKMqX2fttSS0kSSxQswH8woA2W1JNDuQPaQupCS3e5nn1KF7WTwMU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpZxtZjM8OY4BJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFLlFqoLN-U3YoCKc0Pi-hA9nrpSWNZFwwsh1IrC6VfVjIvQceozQ7y3lclHqsKaT22swOPUxn-KcNBtIbcGIi4HUjyykJM9YzUv6GS1DIqEFqFZnO4m1KmQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/395043080/356908" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 395043080" title="Story 395043080"> <p>Briton’s lawyers say she should be protected by financier’s 2008 agreement</p><p>Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with recruiting teenage girls for the US financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s, has asked a judge to dismiss the case on multiple grounds, including that a deal years ago not to prosecute Epstein and others should shield her from prosecution.</p><p>Lawyers for Maxwell said the indictment against her was obtained unjustly and did not allege crimes specific enough to bring before a jury.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/26/ghislaine-maxwell-asks-to-throw-out-case-over-epstein-plea-deal">Continue reading...</a> Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:32:29 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/B_S2u72YZRvdfbsXtF_gpZxtZjM8OY4BJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFLlFqoLN-U3YoCKc0Pi-hA9nrpSWNZFwwsh1IrC6VfVjIvQceozQ7y3lclHqsKaT22swOPUxn-KcNBtIbcGIi4HUjyykJM9YzUv6GS1DIqEFqFZnO4m1KmQ