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| More than 40 countries have now banned UK arrivals due to concerns about the rapid spread of the new variant. European countries are continuing their discussions on how to co-ordinate a response to it. It's likely to involve efforts to pool scientific expertise and unify travel procedures. It is understood one option under discussion would see all UK travellers required to test negative for Covid-19 before departure. |
| UK-France border blockage The UK and France have been working on a plan to restart the flow of freight between the two countries. France shut the border on Sunday night due to fears about the spread of a new coronavirus variant, halting the movement of goods along a vital trade artery. French Europe Minister Clément Beaune said measures agreed between Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron to end the ban would be announced later and come into effect from Wednesday. Meanwhile, hundreds of lorry drivers have spent a second night sleeping in their vehicles waiting to depart. They're being redirected to Manston Airfield in Kent to take them off the choked-up M20. |
| Two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex. The migrants suffocated in the sealed container en route from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in October 2019. Eamonn Harrison, 24, who dropped off the trailer at the Belgian port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted by an Old Bailey jury. Two others were convicted of being part of a wider people-smuggling conspiracy. Lorry driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, collected the trailers from Purfleet on the earlier two runs, claiming he thought he was transporting cigarettes. But the jury found Kennedy and Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, guilty of conspiring to assist illegal immigration. During the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nailbar technician - and their dreams of a better life. Many of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK. Det Ch Insp Daniel Stoten, from Essex Police, said: "If you look at the method, the way they transported human beings... we wouldn't transport animals in that way." Another two men - Irish haulage boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, and 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson - had previously admitted manslaughter. Home Secretary Priti Patel described the deaths as a "truly tragic incident". Prosecutors said in the fatal run, the container became a "tomb" as temperatures in the unit reached an "unbearable" 38.5C (101F). The migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside for at least 12 hours. They had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior. Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said: "There was no way out, and no-one to hear them; no-one to help them." Harrison, of Newry, County Down, towed the trailer to Zeebrugge, from where it was transported to Purfleet. During the 10-week trial, he claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer and that he watched "a wee bit of Netflix" in bed as they were loaded on. He also said he had no idea there were migrants in two other trailers that he had dropped off at the same port in the previous 12 days. Robinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October. His boss, Hughes, had messaged him: "Give them air quickly don't let them out.". Robinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. But when Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead. There was a series of telephone conversations between him and Hughes and Nica, of Basildon, Essex, before Robinson eventually dialled 999. In his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: "I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer." Det Ch Insp Stoten said that many of the police officers who attended "were really young in service" and it was possibly the first time some had ever seen a dead person. He said he believed the "absolutely horrendous scene" would stay with those officers "for the rest of their career and, quite probably, the rest of lives". On all three runs, Nica had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end. Jurors were shown CCTV footage of him carrying a holdall of cash to Hughes's room at the Ibis hotel, Thurrock, early on 19 October. Nica admitted to conspiring to assist illegal immigration in the first two runs, but he insisted that he believed the third run was all to do with smuggling cigarettes. The mechanic told jurors he had been roped into people-smuggling, and said: "I never wanted to be involved in this kind of job." The day after the bodies were found, Nica travelled to Romania, claiming he was "scared" of a "big, big investigation", but prosecutors said the defendant's version of events was "ridiculous". Det Ch Insp Stoten said the gang stood to make between £10,000 and £12,000 per person transported, "the lion's share of which would have gone to Ronan Hughes and Gheorghe Nica". The jury had heard that on 14 October, between the two successful runs, Kennedy was found at the French end of the Channel Tunnel with 20 Vietnamese migrants in his trailer. At least two of those people ended up dying in the fatal run. Police believe the smugglers had "doubled-up" the load on 23 October because of the problem on 14 October, and that was what led to the deaths. This gang had been smuggling people for months and months, the Old Bailey heard. On the first of several successful runs on the same route, a couple, Marie Andrews and Stewart Cox, saw people getting out of a van on a country lane in Orsett, Essex, and dialled 999. Police attended but did not seize CCTV footage from the nearby golf course, in which a lorry and other vehicles were seen on the lane. If, perhaps, Essex Police had managed to get to that footage, follow it up and identify some of the vehicles before the fatal run 12 days later, then this gang might possibly have been disrupted before these 39 people died. Asked about that, the force said it could only allocate the resources available at the time. But it says that now, if there are ever reports of people in the back of a lorry and the driver is present, the driver will be arrested. Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, had earlier admitted assisting unlawful immigration linked to the case. Mr Justice Sweeney adjourned sentencing of all the defendants to 7, 8 and 11 January. Ms Patel said her "thoughts remain with those affected by this tragedy". "Today's convictions only strengthen my resolve to do all I can to go after the people-smugglers who prey on the vulnerable and trade in human misery," she added. |
| The World is living on borrowed money, spending more than its income. The only way to reduce or to eliminate debt is by consuming less. Endless printing of new money will only make matters worse and money worth less. Some of these debts will never be repaid. The table below (correct as at 20 Dec. 2020) shows the debt to income ratios of major countries. Debt/GDP % USA 97.6% China 51.0% Japan 271.9% Germany 79.2% UK 102.5% France 115.0% India 80.2% Italy 158.8% Brazil 96.4% Canada 108.5% Argentina 67.6% Australia 46.9% Belgium 123.4% Greece 214.0% Indonesia 34.78% Ireland 90.5% Korea 49.0% Mexico 69.8% Netherlands 75.3% Nigeria 24.1% Norway 42.0% Poland 62.6% Portugal 151.5% Russia 19.8% Saudi Arabia 16.1% Spain 119.1% Sweden 48.8% Switzerland 48.25% Taiwan 41.8% Turkey 34.8% |
| The air leak in a Russian section of the International Space Station is still unresolved, and experts are considering the possibility of sealing off the affected section, Russian media said. Russian state news agency TASS said after a call between the astronauts on the aging space station and the operational command in Moscow that pressure is growing to find the leak as oxygen reserves and air pressure are still decreasing. The leak is apparently in an access section to the Zvezda module but it is not clear where. A spacewalk in November to find the fault was not successful. A 4.5-centimeter (1.7 inch) rip had already been discovered in October – which was located using a floating tea bag – and then sealed. It is still not known what caused the damage. It soon became clear, however, that there was another leak from elsewhere in the same section. The cosmonauts and the command center discussed sealing off the affected section, but this would affect the overall operation of the ISS. Russian space agency Roskosmos has said there is no danger to the ISS crew. There are currently seven people on board: four Americans, two Russians and a Japanese astronaut. The iconic 20-year-old spacecraft, which has hosted a wide variety of experiments in zero gravity, is experiencing ever more faults. The latest such problems include electricity supply and toilet facilities. |
| The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently reported widespread hacks involving government agencies and private businesses -- an apparent attack linked to Russia that may have gone unreported for up to nine months. The hack compromised federal agencies and "critical infrastructure" in a sophisticated attack that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo, CISA announced in an unusual warning message Thursday. Established under President Trump in 2018, CISA operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight. Its activities are a continuation of the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD). CISA was established when Trump signed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act. CISA’s mission is to "build the national capacity to defend against cyber attacks" and to work "with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the .gov networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies." CISA is an independent arm under DHS, on par with the Secret Service or Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). RUSSIA'S SUSPECTED HACKING OPERATION TARGETED 5 US AGENCIES, 18K AGENCIES Christopher Krebs was CISA’s first director. He was fired by President Donald Trump in November. Like the NPPD, CISA oversees the Federal Protective Service (FPS), the Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA), the Office of Cybersecurity & Communications (OC&C) and the Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP). In an effort to reduce CISA’s backlog in cybersecurity vulnerability assessments, a Senate panel recently proposed offering CISA an additional $59 million in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. For the 2020 election, the agency conducted 131 remote penetration tests and 59 onsite risk and vulnerability assessments for local election infrastructure and approximately 263 election officials around the country are receiving weekly vulnerability scan reports. It also helped train thousands of election officials through online security courses. This month, CISA reported a massive, ongoing hacking campaign believed to have started in March and be the work of Russia. The Energy Department, the Department of State, the Defense Department and DHS have all reported being compromised. Those government branches join earlier assessments confirming that the Departments of Treasury and Commerce had been breached in what investigators believe to be a mass-scale Russian intelligence operation. On Sunday, CISA announced the intrusion involving SolarWinds Orion products, which is now under FBI investigation, and directed all federal agencies to disconnect from the breached network-management software. ROMNEY SLAMS WHITE HOUSE'S 'INEXCUSABLE SILENCE' ON RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACKS SolarWinds' clientele roster traverses some 300,000 organizations -- including other highly sensitive federal agencies ranging from the Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as well as thousands of private companies. Almost all Fortune 500 companies are reported to use SolarWinds products to scan their networks, including major defense contractors such as Boeing, according to The New York Times. Russia has denied involvement in the campaign. Nonetheless, preliminary reviews of the encroachments suspect that the sophistication of the attacks lends itself to the work of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR -- the espionage wing that succeeded the Soviet Union's former secret police, the KGB). The belief that the SVR is behind the attacks stems from the hackers being especially judicious in drawing data from particular targets. |
| Clinical experts have for the first time identified the 28 common symptoms of long Covid, including breathlessness, fatigue, joint pain and dizziness. The signs of long Covid had, up to this point, remained an elusive subject for medics - they had largely been based on patients' narratives on the symptoms they suffered after contracting Covid-19. But for the first time, a conclusive list of signs indicating the long-term effects of coronavirus has been published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Long Covid affects one in five people, new ONS figures suggest Long Covid: What is it, what are the symptoms and what help is there for sufferers? Long Covid, although not a medical term, is the name applied so far by experts grappling with the issue of longer-term effects of coronavirus. The latest official guidelines in Britain use two definitions: people may have “ongoing symptomatic Covid-19” if symptoms persist from four to 12 weeks, and could have “post-Covid-19 syndrome” if they do not resolve after 12 weeks. The symptoms of long Covid are highly variable and wide ranging - the most common 28 symptoms include (but are not limited to) the following: Respiratory symptoms Breathlessness Cough Cardiovascular symptoms Chest tightness Chest pain Palpitations Generalised symptoms Fatigue Fever Pain Neurological symptoms Cognitive impairment ('brain fog', loss of concentration or memory issues) Headache Sleep disturbance Peripheral neuropathy symptoms (pins and needles and numbness) Dizziness Delirium (in older populations) Gastrointestinal symptoms Abdominal pain Nausea Diarrhoea Anorexia and reduced appetite (in older populations) Musculoskeletal symptoms Joint pain Muscle pain Psychological/psychiatric symptoms Symptoms of depression Symptoms of anxiety Ear, nose and throat symptoms Tinnitus Earache Sore throat Dizziness Loss of taste and/or smell Dermatological Skin rashes The Office for National Statistics published figures on Wednesday examining long Covid, finding that a fifth of people have symptoms for five weeks or more while around one in 10 are affected for 12 weeks or more. Overall, around 186,000 people in private households in England in the week beginning November 22 were living with Covid-19 symptoms that had persisted for between five and 12 weeks, the ONS said. When looking at symptoms among people, five weeks after they had tested positive for Covid-19, the ONS estimated that 11.5% of respondents were still experiencing fatigue, 11.4% had a cough and 10.1% had a headache. England now has 69 clinics to address long Covid, harnessing doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists to offer physical and psychological assessments and refer patients to the right treatment and rehabilitation services. A further 12 sites are due to launch in January. |
| Charlie Hebdo trial: Paris gunman’s widow jailed in absence for 30 years as 13 others found guilty The fugitive widow of an Isis gunman and a man described as his logistician have been convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 30 years in prison in the trial of 14 people over the deadly attacks in Paris on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket. Six weeks into the trial, in October, a French schoolteacher who opened a debate on free speech by showing students the Muhammad caricatures was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee. Eight weeks into the trial, a young Tunisian armed with a knife and carrying a copy of the Quran attacked worshippers in a church in the southern city of Nice, killing three. The verdict ends the three-month trial linked to the three days of killings across Paris six years ago claimed jointly by Isis and al-Qaeda. During the proceedings, France was struck by new attacks, a wave of coronavirus infections among the defendants, and devastating testimony bearing witness to bloodshed that continues to shake France. Among those sentenced in their absence was Hayat Boumeddiene, former wife of Amedy Coulibaly who killed a police officer and then four people in a Jewish supermarket. The two men who spirited her out of France, who were also tried in absentia, are thought to be dead. Eleven others were present and all were convicted, with sentences ranging from 30 years for Ali Riza Polat, described as the lieutenant of the virulently antisemitic market attacker Coulibaly, to four years with a simple criminal conviction. A total of 17 people were murdered during the attacks in January 2015. The three attackers – brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, and Amedy Coulibaly – were all killed by police.Boumeddiene, a widow, fled to Syria and is believed to still be alive. Police described her at the time as an “armed and dangerous” suspect. In all, investigators sifted through 37 million bits of phone data, according to video testimony by judicial police. Among the men handcuffed behind the courtroom’s enclosed stands, flanked by masked and armed officers, were several who had exchanged texts or calls with Coulibaly in the days leading up to the attack. They described any contacts as normal communications among acquaintances. Among those giving evidence were the widows of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the brothers who stormed Charlie Hebdo’s offices, decimating the newspaper’s editorial staff in what they said was an act of vengeance for its publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad years before. The offices had previously been firebombed and were unmarked, and editors had round-the-clock protection. But it wasn’t enough. In all, 12 people died in that attack. The first was Frederic Boisseau, who worked in maintenance. Then the Kouachis seized Corinne Rey, a cartoonist who had gone down to smoke, and forced her upstairs to punch in the door code. She watched in horror as they opened fire on the editorial meeting. For years, she harboured paralysing guilt that her life was spared while so many others died. “I was not killed, but what happened to me was absolutely chilling, and I will live with it until my life is over,” she told the court. The next day, Coulibaly shot and killed a young police officer after failing to attack a Jewish community centre in the suburb of Montrouge. By then, the Kouachis were on the run and France was racked with fear. At a kosher supermarket, Coulibaly entered, carrying an assault rifle, pistols and explosives. He methodically fired on an employee and a customer, then killed a second customer before ordering a cashier to close the store’s blinds. Despite the pleas, Coulibaly fired a killing shot, according to testimony from cashier Zarie Sibony. “You are Jews and French, the two things I hate the most,” Coulibaly told them. The Kouachi brothers were cornered in a printing shop with their own hostages, and ultimately, all three attackers died in near-simultaneous police raids. It was the first attack in Europe claimed by the Isis, which struck Paris again later that year to even deadlier effect. Boumeddiene, believed to be of Algerian descent, reportedly lived in Coulibaly’s apartment while he was in prison for his part in a plot to help Paris metro bomber Smain Ait Ali Belkacem escape. According to Le Monde, Boumeddiene said she and Coulibaly practised firing crossbows together in the countryside while on holiday visiting extremist Djamel Beghal, who claimed to have met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to plan a suicide bombing. During interrogation, she reportedly said she was inspired by her boyfriend and radicals she lived with to “read a lot of books on religion”. Six weeks into the trial, in October, a French schoolteacher who opened a debate on free speech by showing students the Muhammad caricatures was beheaded by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee. Eight weeks into the trial, a young Tunisian armed with a knife and carrying a copy of the Quran attacked worshippers in a church in the southern city of Nice, killing three. |
| Woman who lives near the North Pole lifts lid on her VERY unique lifestyle - revealing how a simple dog walk is an 'expedition' that requires layers of clothes, a headlamp, and a RIFLE in case she runs into a polar bear A woman living near the North Pole shared the great lengths she must go to just to walk her dog in the middle of the afternoon. Swedish native Cecilia Blomdahl lives in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago just south of the North Pole that is one of the northernmost inhabited areas in the world — which is so far north, in fact, that it experiences round-the-clock darkness from mid-November to late January. 'When walking your dog is an expedition,' Cecilia says in introduction to a recent viral TikTok video. Cecelia has a Finnish Lapphund named Grim, and sometimes takes him for walks with his 'brother' Fenris, who lives two cabins down and likes to visit. And whenever they go out in the winter, there is a lot of preparation to deal with the weather, the lack of daylight, and the wild animals. 'It's starting to get really cold here and it's pitch black 24/7,' Cecilia says, explaining that she needs to layer up with lots of clothes. The local temperature averages 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter to 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. She wears thermals, expedition pants, and a down jacket to stay warm. She also adds a hat and a scarf covering most of her face. Just as important is the 'Teletubby headlight' on her head, which lights the way because it's totally dark outside — and there aren't exactly street lamps. Safety first! She also has to bring a rifle in case she encounters a polar bear 'And of course, that's not enough. We have polar bears here, so we have to bring a rifle with us ever time we're outside,' she says, showing herself strapping the gun on. The dogs need gear too, and she dresses them up in reflective neon vests and lights. 'The dogs are obviously invisible in the dark, so I put a bunch of blinkies and hi-[visibility] vests on them so I can actually see them when they run away from me,' she says. When she steps outside, she shows off the 'beautiful weather' that meets her at 4 p.m. It is completely dark, with snow coming down and already packed high on the ground. While she might be freezing, the dogs actually love it. They race her back to the cabin, stopping a lot along the way to play in the snow. Snow dog: Luckily, her dog is a fan of the weather and loves to play in the snow BFFs! Sometimes she takes out another dog who lives in a nearby cabin Cecilia moved to Svalbard five years ago, and what was supposed to be a temporary stay turned into a much longer one. She and her boyfriend have a cabin with electricity but no running water, and can reach the nearest settlement, Longyearbyen, with a 15-minute drive. Her dog is a fan of the area, too. She told Astrid Wild that he 'absolutely loves being outdoors so every time we head out on adventures it gives me extra joy – because I know that I'm giving him his best life'. You can see the excitement in his eyes when he gets to run around in the snow, or pull me along when I'm on skis, or when he sees a reindeer that he wants to go say hi to,' she added. 'It's SO important to choose a dog after it's characteristics and what weather they are adapted to, and not by the look of them,' she went on. 'A Finnish Lapphund, for example, is the perfect Svalbard dog. They are made for cold harsh winters, have super thick fur, and can sleep outside in cold weather without a problem, and they generally enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, sledding, etc. |
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was recently pardoned by Trump, made his case for invoking martial law to prevent Biden from taking office on Thursday. Flynn insisted that Trump has 'military capabilities' to force battleground states to redo their elections, claiming that voting software flipped Trump votes for Biden. 'I mean, it's not unprecedented. These people are out there talking about martial law like it's something that we've never done,' he said. |
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