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Two locations frozen in period of Nazi occupation after coronavirus interrupts filmingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
Residents confined to their homes in a corner of northern Paris have been plunged back to one of the darkest moments of the city’s past. Continue reading…



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Author : Kim Willsher

Publish date : 2020-03-30 14:33:50

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Poems, exhibitions and a comic book to mark talent of Thomas Chatterton, 250 years after deathHe was revered by poets such as Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge and a romanticised painting depicting his deathbed remains an enduring image of doomed artistic talent.Now a series of projects marking the 250th anniversary of the death, at the age of 17, of Bristol-born Thomas Chatterton is under way to remind people of his extraordinary but often forgotten life, and, perhaps, inspire a new generation of Romantic poets. Continue reading…



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Author : Steven Morris

Publish date : 2020-03-30 13:21:03

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India’s shutdown is catastrophic for Muslims driven from their homes by sectarian carnage and now without food or shelterAs the wealthy quaff wine in comfort, India’s poor are thrown to the wolves
It wasn’t possible for Mohammed Idrish to watch Narendra Modi’s address to the nation last Tuesday exhorting 1.3 billion Indians to stay at home. His TV was looted along with everything else in his home in Delhi during the recent anti-Muslim riots in the Indian capital.When Idrish, a carpenter, heard about Modi urging Indians to stay at home to stop coronavirus spreading, he shook his head again and again. “I don’t understand … I don’t understand. Doesn’t he know we have no home?” Continue reading…



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Author : Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi

Publish date : 2020-03-30 12:00:53

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High court rejects three challenges to law inherited from British colonial eraA fresh attempt to overturn a Singapore law banning gay sex has failed after a court dismissed several challenges, marking a setback for efforts to promote greater LGBT rights in Asia.The law, inherited from the British colonial era, is rarely enforced but campaigners say it jars with the affluent city-state’s increasingly modern and vibrant culture. Continue reading…



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Author : Agence France-Presse

Publish date : 2020-03-30 12:06:11

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US passes 2,500 deaths from Covid-19
Fauci suggests US death toll could reach 200,000Virus upends election cycle as officials scramble to protect votersSee all our coronavirus coverage
Support the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution 12.38pm BST … and welcome to another day of coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Joanie Greve will be here later to take you through the day.The day will likely get off to a lively start, because Donald Trump is due to be interviewed on Fox & Friends at 7.55am ET – not long from now. The Torquemadas of the long beige sofa will no doubt grill the president pitilessly about his administration’s coronavirus respo– … no, not really. The president will take softball after softball and, aiming for the cheap seats, potentially cause news. Related: Trump says keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000 would be a ‘very good job’ Related: Five of Donald Trump’s most misleading coronavirus claims Continue reading…



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Author : Martin Pengelly in New York

Publish date : 2020-03-30 11:46:37

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Monday’s top story: Trump extends Covid-19 measures to 30 April, saying 100,000 deaths would be a ‘very good job’. Plus, virtual tours of the world’s great landmarksGood morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s essential stories. Continue reading…



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Author : Tim Walker

Publish date : 2020-03-30 11:03:36

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Primaries have been delayed and conventions are in question as calls for voting by mail raise concerns of their ownCoronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Spelman College announced this month it was suspending in-person classes and closing residence halls in response to coronavirus, Ashee Groce, a junior, had a question: how would she vote?Groce, who serves as president of Young Democrats of America at Spelman, had registered herself and a number of fellow students in the Atlanta area. But they had now lost their housing and would have to return home before Georgia’s presidential primary. Continue reading…



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Author : Joan E Greve in Washington DC

Publish date : 2020-03-30 10:00:20

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Unconfirmed reports of deaths as inmates overwhelm SDF guards in city of HasakahSeveral members of Islamic State have escaped from prison after militants sparked a riot and seized control of part of a large jail in north-east Syria, Kurdish and US military sources have said.Prisoners broke down walls and tore off internal doors during the unrest on Sunday night at Ghouiran prison in the city of Hasakah, overwhelming guards from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Washington’s Kurdish-led ground partner in the fight against Isis. Continue reading…



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Author : Bethan McKernan Middle East Correspondent

Publish date : 2020-03-30 09:31:30

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A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across Australia Follow the Australia coronavirus blog for live news and updatesSign up for Coronavirus: Australia at a glance, our daily email newsletterCoronavirus Australia maps and cases: live numbers and statisticsGood evening, and welcome to our daily roundup of the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. These are the main stories on Monday 30 March. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2020-03-30 08:08:55

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The Duchess of Sussex has provided the voiceover – including plenty of unverifiable comment – for this sugary documentary about elephant migrationLast autumn, before she and her husband made it into their current Californian lockdown, Meghan Markle recorded the narration for this lavish new documentary from the Disneynature production unit, streaming on Disney+, her fee being a donation to the Elephants Without Borders conservation charity working in Botswana. The film shows the annual, dramatic migration of an elephant herd across the Kalahari in search of food and drinking water, moving from Botswana’s Okavango Delta in its dry season, heading for the Zambezi and the Victoria Falls: the last being an awe-inspiring phenomenon which Meghan matches with her own spectacular torrents of schmaltz. She takes to Disney-narration like an anthropomorphic duck to water. “For elephants, family is everything! In this tight-knit group, someone always has your back!”The film is directed by Mark Linfield, Vanessa Berlowitz and Alastair Fothergill, veterans of the BBC Natural History Unit, and they get some great scenes and striking moments, working in the immersive, intimate nature-doc tradition pioneered by David Attenborough. But they are also giving us something in the somewhat silly Disneyfied tradition of The Lion King and The Jungle Book, with a cutesy narrative sneakily fashioned in the edit, and everything but Elton John belting out Circle of Life on the soundtrack. The heroes are the herd’s ageing 40-year-old matriarch Gaia, her younger sister Shani and one adorable little baby elephant: “Meet Jomo!” coos Meghan. Continue reading…



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Author : Peter Bradshaw

Publish date : 2020-03-30 07:01:16

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Health analysts say the private hospital sector should not receive financial relief until they are called to assist with the coronavirusHealth policy analysts and economists have accused the private hospital sector of being disingenuous and sparking public panic by saying without government assistance they will be forced to close due to the cancellation of non-essential elective surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic.On Saturday, a coalition of private hospital operators warned the suspension of most semi-urgent and all non-urgent elective surgeries had strangled their revenue streams and would force them to close within days. On Monday, state and territory health ministers and premiers were holding talks with the sector to come to an agreement about how private staff and resources can be utilised elsewhere. Continue reading…



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Author : Melissa Davey

Publish date : 2020-03-30 07:32:02

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UK prime minister’s refusal to criticise Amazon fires and sharp rise in deforestation praised by Brazilian ambassador Boris Johnson was personally thanked by the Brazilian government for refusing to support European action over the Amazon fires, according to documents obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.As the rainforest burned last summer – fuelled by a sharp rise in deforestation that critics blame partly on President Jair Bolsonaro’s agenda – Johnson criticised a threat by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to block the EU’s Mercosur trade deal with Brazil. Continue reading…



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Author : Alexandra Heal and Andrew Wasley

Publish date : 2020-03-30 06:00:16

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With the country in lockdown because of coronavirus, deep social inequalities have been exposed more sharply than ever Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“Sauvignon blanc or viognier”? As the words left my mouth, my son and I locked eyes, our expressions flashing from shame-faced to half laughing at the irony. My live-in maid Ranjita had just laid out dinner and, since the fish and lyonnaise potatoes looked appetising, I thought it deserved a bottle of wine.For people like us, under lockdown, the existential questions that punctuate our daily lives are: is it to be Curb Your Enthusiasm or Line of Duty, Netflix or Hotstar? Continue reading…



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Author : Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi

Publish date : 2020-03-30 06:00:16

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Things were looking up for our family, with a new job and a big move. Then coronavirus turned our lives upside downMy husband got a new job a few weeks ago. We moved back to the city from upstate, borrowing money from his mother to put down our security deposit. Great news, life-changing, it was supposed to be.For years, we’ve been looking for a leg up; we’ve been broke and barely getting by. I’ve been working between four and six jobs at a time, and my husband had been working toward something more stable and with benefits for years. His new job will provide health insurance in three months. His commute will be 20-30 minutes instead of an hour and a half. We sunk what little money we had into moving, contingent on that new salary, contingent on me continuing to work all four jobs I’ve been working the past couple years, and prepared for our new, more comfortable life. Continue reading…



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Author : Lynn Steger Strong

Publish date : 2020-03-30 05:00:15

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Haddiscoe Island, Norfolk: Wally Mason may well be the last person in Britain to cut thatching reed the traditional way It’s easy to lose your bearings among the vast horizons of Haddiscoe Island. This triangular grazing marsh on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, enclosed by the rivers Waveney and Yare, feels far bigger than its 2,000 acres, and more remote than its position just off the A413 to Great Yarmouth should allow. Continue reading…



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Author : Tom Allan

Publish date : 2020-03-30 04:30:13

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