People protest against the Brazilian president after the resignation of popular minister Sérgio Moro. There were calls for Bolsonaro’s impeachment and an investigation into claims he had improperly interfered in the country’s federal police.

The coronavirus was probably brought to Brazil by rich returning holidaymakers but it is threatening to explode in marginal communitiesIn many ways, Washington Castro was a typical resident of Rocinha, the immense redbrick favela that towers over Rio de Janeiro’s Atlantic coast.Industrious, God-fearing and the offspring of migrants from Brazil’s parched and impoverished north-east, he supported two young children by working two separate jobs and wore a suit and tie when attending his local church. Continue reading...

National Crime Agency and Border Force officers recover at least 36kg of class A drugTwo men have been charged with conspiracy to import class-A drugs after cocaine worth £3m was discovered in a purpose-built hide in a lorry that had travelled by ferry from France to Dover.The National Crime Agency said Gary Sloan, 50, from Magheralin in Co Armagh, and Jason Bunce, 57, from Kingswood in Kent, would appear at Canterbury magistrates court on Saturday. Continue reading...

Parents of constable Josh Prestney, 28, say they ‘cannot fathom the circumstances’ that led to their son’s deathThe family of a police officer killed alongside three colleagues when they were struck by a truck on a Melbourne freeway on Wednesday say they have lost their “bright light”.Constable Josh Prestney, 28, was the youngest of the four officers killed in the incident, which is the single largest loss of police lives in Victoria since 1878, when three officers were killed in a shootout with the Kelly gang. Continue reading...

Form of corporal punishment will be replaced by jail terms, fines or a mixture of both

Today Africans in Guangzhou are being demonised over Covid-19, but the roots of this prejudice go back centuries

A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across AustraliaGood evening and here is our daily roundup of the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. This is Naaman Zhou bringing you the main stories on Saturday 25 April. Continue reading...

In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle, but this act of love and performance art was doomed from the startFrom the moment in 1976 that Serbian and German performance artists Marina Abramović and Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, who died last month aged 76) clapped eyes on each other they were inseparable. Ulay found Abramović witchy and otherworldly; she found him wild and exciting. Even their initial encounter was propitious: they met in Amsterdam on their shared birthday of 30 November.The pair began to perform together, describing themselves as a “two-headed body”. For years they lived a nomadic lifestyle, travelling across Europe in a corrugated iron van and performing in villages and towns. Their artistic collaborations matched their personalities: they focused on performances that put them in precarious and physically demanding situations, to see how they and their audience would respond. In one, called Relation in Time, they remained tied together by their hair for 17 hours. They explored conflict, taking their ideas to extremes: running full pelt into each other, naked, and slapping each other’s faces until they could take no more. Continue reading...

Not a day has been spent in jail nor a penny paid in compensation for the brutal murder of a 14-year-old boy in Mississippi that helped spark the civil rights movementThelma Wright Edwards knows this is the last chance for justice for Emmett Till. The next few weeks and months will determine whether there will ever be closure for her beloved cousin “Bobo”, as the family affectionately call the child.The Guardian has learned that a reinvestigation of the boy’s murder that has been carried out by the FBI over the past three years could be wrapped up in weeks. For Thelma and the rest of the Till family, a decades-long struggle for justice is fast approaching its conclusion. Continue reading...

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Pentagon suggests no decision imminent on the navy’s preliminary inquiry into the USS Theodore RooseveltThe US navy has recommended reinstating the fired captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, whose crew hailed him as their hero for risking his job to safeguard their lives from coronavirus, officials have said.Related: US Navy captain fired for raising coronavirus concerns tests positive himself Continue reading...

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Police allege the 44-year-old travelled to Syria in 2012 and 2013 to fight ‘for months at a time’A Sydney man has been charged after allegedly fighting for an al-Qaida-linked Syrian terrorist group “for months at a time” in 2012 and 2013.The 44-year-old was due to face Parramatta bail court on Saturday after tactical police arrested him in a car park in Mount Lewis on Friday. Continue reading...

Speculation continues about dictator’s condition after reports of heart surgery and absence from important eventsChina has sent a team to North Korea including medical experts to check on Kim Jong-un, according to three people familiar with the situation.The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean ruler. It was not immediately clear what the trip by the Chinese team signalled in terms of Kim’s health. Continue reading...

Lockdown is tough on the best relationships so we want to hear readers’ advice on how to stay strongLife in lockdown can be testing. The coronavirus crisis has meant that most of us are shut in together and mostly just trying to get along – but even the best relationships can be strained.We know what that could mean: China’s divorce rate spiked after its quarantine period ended with countless couples heading for splitsville. So we all need tips and advice on how to avoid that fate from those who’ve figured out how to stay together, no matter what. Those couples who’ve made it through in good times and bad – sometimes with help and sometimes with bare grit and determination. Continue reading...

President Jair Bolsonaro denies he sought to influence federal police inquiriesBrazil’s government has been plunged into turmoil after the resignation of one of Jair Bolsonaro’s most powerful ministers sparked protests, calls for the president’s impeachment and an investigation into claims he had improperly interfered in the country’s federal police.In a rambling televised address late on Friday, Brazil’s embattled president denied claims from his outgoing justice minister Sérgio Moro that he had sought to appoint a new federal police chief in order to gain access to secret intelligence reports – for reasons that remain murky. Continue reading...

Sweden reports highest number of new cases; WHO launches €7.5bn fundraising bid; Russian cases jump by more than 5,000 in a day

Aboriginal artists are streaming free music and dance performances during the coronavirus crisis

Not having a public commemoration organised by the state might enable a more just remembering of warPublic memory is a funny business.Related: Beating the khaki drum: how Australian identity was militarised | Paul Daley Continue reading...

With Labor ready for a ‘big conversation’, get ready for a wild ride along the path to coronavirus recovery

New law will also offer wider protection against race, sex, age and religious discriminationThe Scottish government has published a bill that would decriminalise blasphemy, more than 175 years after the last case was prosecuted.The devolved administration in Edinburgh said the continued criminalisation of blasphemy, which falls under hate crime laws, “no longer reflects the kind of society in which we live”. Continue reading...

Security services said last week that videoconferencing tool was vulnerable to surveillance

Mark Grenon wrote to Trump saying chlorine dioxide ‘can rid the body of Covid-19’ days before the president promoted disinfectant as treatment

Police in Russia's southern city of Krasnodar stopped traffic on a busy road to allow a family of ducks to cross safely. In a video that has gone viral on Russian social media, police are seen moving a traffic sign to stop the flow of cars and guide the ducks to the side of the road. The incident reportedly happened near a police checkpoint that was set up to enforce restrictions on movement in the city due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ducks reportedly made it safely to their destination — a pond a few hundred metres away. Continue reading...

Gabriel Wortman also beat and handcuffed his girlfriend before the shooting, police said, which might have been ‘the catalyst’The Nova Scotia gunman used his replica police cruiser to flag down motorists before murdering them, and also targeted passersby who offered to help and a lone walker out for a Sunday morning stroll.Gabriel Wortman – who killed 22 people on Saturday and Sunday – also stole weapons from a police officer he murdered, switched vehicles and changed clothes to elude capture during his 12-hour killing spree. Continue reading...

Duchess sues publisher of British newspapers over use of letter to father Thomas MarkleA newspaper was accused of “stirring up” issues between the Duchess of Sussex and her estranged father, Thomas Markle, then using it to justify publishing a “private and confidential” letter, a court heard.Lawyers representing Meghan said she was distressed at the realisation that Associated Newspapers had an agenda of “intrusive and offensive” stories about her, a judge was told. Continue reading...

Man accused of being Islamic State member and taking part in crimes against the YazidisAn Iraqi man has gone on trial in Frankfurt for genocide, murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity, on allegations that as an Islamic State (Isis) member he was part of an effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority, and that he killed a five-year-old girl he purchased as a slave by chaining her in the hot sun to die of thirst.Taha Al-J, 27, whose full last name wasn’t given in line with German privacy laws, faces life in prison if convicted. Continue reading...

Sixty Hutu rebel fighters suspected of attack on civilians in Virunga national parkSuspected Hutu militiamen have killed 16 people, including 12 rangers, in the Virunga national park, a Democratic Republic of the Congo government official has said, in the deadliest attack in the park’s recent history.The park in eastern DRC, home to critically endangered mountain gorillas as well as hundreds of other rare species, has faced repeated incursions and attacks by local armed groups. Continue reading...

Green activists claim victory as government will spend €3bn on new climate initiativesThe Dutch government has announced measures including huge cuts to coal use, garden greening and limits on livestock herds as part of its plan to lower emissions to comply with a supreme court ruling.Climate litigation activists described the move as “an enormous win”. The small non-profit Urgenda Foundation, which filed the initial legal challenge in 2013, said this and earlier compliance measures totalled about €3bn euros, which confirms the impact of the world’s most successful climate lawsuit to date. Continue reading...

António Guterres joined leaders from the European Union and beyond on Friday to ensure all countries receive the tools to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Speaking during a virtual WHO launch event, Guterres said treatments and vaccines should belong to the whole world, not to individual countries or regions. 'Not a vaccine or treatments for one country or one region or one-half of the world,' Guterres said, 'but a vaccine and treatment that is affordable, safe, effective, easily administered and universally available for everyone, everywhere.'

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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as the Covid-19 lockdown hits spending in UK shops and confidence among German firms

Nine-year tagging study sheds light upon migratory cycle of the cuckoo to help understand species’ alarming declineWhen you’ve just braved sandstorms, thunderstorms and drought during a 4,000-mile solo flight in search of romance, what is your first priority?For Carlton II the cuckoo, it appears to be a relaxing round of golf. The satellite-tagged bird became the first of a small flock of tracked cuckoos to return to his breeding grounds in record time, dashing from the Ivory Coast to southern England in seven days. Continue reading...

People in poor and rural areas are left with little access to care, with chronic diseases unchecked and a higher risk of complications if people have Covid-19Camden might seem like a strange place for a coronavirus outbreak. It’s a small, historic city in central South Carolina – just over 7,500 people. It’s neither densely packed like New York nor economically decimated like Detroit. One of its main industries is tourism, with people visiting to see civil war re-enactments and the annual horse race every spring.But on 6 March the first Covid-19 case was confirmed positive – an elderly woman whose family had visited her after traveling to Europe. Soon after that, Camden had the fastest-growing number of cases, and deaths, in the state. At one point it had the most coronavirus cases per capita in the country. Continue reading...

Brendan Murphy says he is ‘pretty confident’ most will be negative but it is necessary to monitor community transmission. Follow the latest updates

Repeal of outbound travel ban is sudden U-turn in country among first to close frontiers

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Donald Trump prompted a backlash from medical experts after floating the idea that they could look into heat, light and injections of disinfectants as a cure for Covid-19. His public health advisers immediately played down the idea, and medics warn that trying such ideas could be fatal. Coronavirus response coordinator Dr Deborah Birx appeared caught off guard when Trump asked her directly if heat and light would cure the deadly disease. ‘Not as a treatment,’ Birx replied

Singer complains of ‘tasteless’ release amid coronavirus crisis by former label Big Machine, owned by frequent adversary Scooter BraunTaylor Swift has disowned a new live album released under her name, calling it tasteless and “shameless greed” amid the coronavirus outbreak.The album, Live from Clear Channel Stripped 2008, was recorded when Swift was 18, around the release of her Grammy-winning second album, Fearless. The live album has been released by Big Machine, Swift’s former label that was bought by music manager Scooter Braun from its founder, Scott Borchetta. Swift has frequently criticised Braun and Borchetta – leading Braun to allege death threats from fans to his family – and is planning to rerecord and rerelease her six albums put out by Big Machine to regain some control over her back catalogue. Continue reading...

Three Uber drivers who believe they caught coronavirus from passengers before the UK lockdown started share their experiences of the illness, pay tribute to drivers who have died, and call for better safety standards for drivers in London

30 British attendees at Panama event criticise embassy and say they fear being stuck for monthsIt must have seemed like a dream adventure: a two-week festival on a beach in central America, camping out under the stars at night in what organisers called “paradise on Earth”.But because of the coronavirus outbreak, a group of 30 British workers and volunteers at the festival are stranded in a makeshift camp facing nonstop rain, a difficult relationship with the British embassy, and a sewage problem. Continue reading...

Finance minister says NZ$17m has been paid back by firms not entitled to subsidy

Toxic fumes and repiratory disease among hazards facing people reliant on informal processing plants for work and fuelBlack pools, long trenches and charred earth have become common sights in the fields of north-west Syria, signs of an informal oil economy that has developed during the war.Despite damaging both the environment and health, up to 5,000 backyard oil refineries, crucial to the livelihoods of besieged Syrians, have cropped up in recent years, identified through satellite imagery in a report by open source investigators Bellingcat. Continue reading...

Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni investigated how Italian teenagers were coping with the coronavirus lockdown, working with them to take pictures using video chat appsSome can’t wait to go out again, others don’t really want to, happy to stay home connected to the outside world only through their computer. Some are worried about the virus and others, instead, are more concerned about the climate crisis.

MPs and peers told to come up with a clear plan after previous business case was rejectedMPs and peers in charge of parliament’s restoration have been told by Whitehall’s spending watchdog that they must ensure that costs do not slip amid deepening concerns about public finances in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.The National Audit Office (NAO) has called on the group tasked with the Palace of Westminster’s multibillion-pound overhaul to take a firm grip on the process. The budget for Big Ben’s construction works alone rose by 176%, auditors said. Continue reading...

Workers in a sector with a history of exploitation face hazards including a lack of masks and overcrowded accommodationIn Sri Lanka, police have been enforcing tough lockdown measures and a strict curfew since March. The country’s inspector general has instructed police to take action against social media users who criticise the government or spread “malicious” pandemic information.An exception has been made, however, for the country’s tea pickers. A caveat on the country’s lockdown order, issued on 20 March, read: “Paddy farming and plantation, including work on tea small holdings and fishing activities, are permitted in any district.” Continue reading...

Over five days and 40 video sessions, 10 teams will try to ‘refocus’ on future relationshipBrexit talks on the future relationship between the UK and the EU resumed this week after a six-week interruption caused by coronavirus.Over five days and 40 video sessions, 10 negotiating teams were expected to provide an urgent “refocus” before the 30 June deadline for both sides to formally agree to extend the transition period if the UK asks for one. Continue reading...

The human rights watchdog UNHCR reminds the territory that charges against prominent pro-democracy figures have not gone unnoticedThe United Nations human rights watchdog is “closely following” the arrest and charging of 15 pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong, reminding the territory’s government of its obligations to international law.Last week authorities arrested pro-democracy leaders and activists including 81-year-old Martin Lee QC, the founder of Hong Kong’s democratic party and internationally recognised advocate, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, and veteran politician and activist Lee Cheuk Yan. Continue reading...

Journalists at Vedomosti warn paper is in danger of becoming ‘another controlled media outlet’Journalists at the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti have rebelled against their new management after the paper’s editor was accused of banning criticism of constitutional amendments backed by Vladimir Putin and the use of data from an independent pollster.In a blistering opinion article published on the newspaper’s website on Thursday, the editorial staff said the new editor had undermined trust by massaging headlines about the Russian state energy company Rosneft and blocking a recent column critical of the same company and its boss, Igor Sechin. Continue reading...