Jumat, 11 Juni 2021

Exclusive: Police test positive for Covid at G7 summit; ITV News - ITV News

A dozen police officers working at the G7 summit in Cornwall have been forced to self-isolate following a positive Covid-19 test for one of their colleagues, ITV News can reveal.

Worryingly, for G7 security chiefs, the officer who tested positive has been staying on a ferry with 1,000 colleagues.ITV News understands the police officer, whose accommodation was on the ship in Falmouth, had been on duty at the location of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay prior to his positive test.Devon and Cornwall Police told ITV News: “As part of our testing regime, during the early hours of June 11 we have identified one officer who is currently supporting G7 policing and accommodated on the ferry, has given a positive lateral flow test for Covid-19."The officer, plus those who have come into close contact, are currently self-isolating at another designated location."All who have come into close contact or are in the bubble of those who tested positive are also currently self-isolating which equates to 12 officers in total.

"The next stage is for those who have tested positive to undertake a PCR test."We are continuing to follow the advice of Public Health England.”

The 'world leaders' are in St Ives for the G7 Summit. Credit: PA images.

On Thursday, a hotel in St Ives was forced to close for a deep clean after an outbreak of Covid-19.

The Pedn Olva hotel said it would "fully close" after discussing the outbreak with Public Health England. It is understood 13 out of around 17 staff are infected. Thousands of police officers have been drafted in from around the UK to provide security at the G7.

Positive tests were not unexpected, but with the main event beginning on Friday and continuing until Sunday the risk of an outbreak impacting the gathering of global leaders is high.Covid security for the summit is extremely tight with police officers having to do a lateral flow test every day and anyone testing positive having to self-isolate.

Lateral flow tests are known to create false positives and although that maybe a possible explanation for these police tests in Cornwall, the results must be treated as being accurate.Positive tests do not equate to an outbreak but there are ongoing concerns about the threat from Covid-19 to the summit.

With thousands of police officers, staff, media and delegates travelling to Cornwall from all over the country, and world leaders and politicians jetting in from around the world the issues created by the pandemic are not just on the agenda but part of everyday life for all those at the G7.


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Moment Macron swoops in on Biden for a Covid-breaching whisper seconds after G7 photo - Daily Express

Emmanuel Macron wasted no time after the G7 'family photo' of world leaders took place as he rushed to hug US President Joe Biden. Mr Macron appeared to break Covid protocol by jumping into a conversation with the US President. It is unclear what the pair discussed but Mr Macron could be seen putting his arm around Joe Biden as they walked together.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was also involved in the conversation. 

Boris Johnson was walking ahead of the pair, as he held a brief chat with Angela Merkel, who is marking her last G7 as German Chancellor.

The G7 'family photo' was captured ahead of talks at the resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, in the southwest of England. 

The intimate moment between the French and US leaders sparked immediate reaction online, with observers pointing that Mr Macron and Ms von der Leyen were "getting very close" to Mr Biden.

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One person suggested Mr Macron was desperately trying to "monopolize" Mr Biden for a photo op "while other leaders follow behind".

Another viewer tweeted: "Macron was hanging behind after the group photo to stick with Biden for photo op. He managed it in the end!

"I bet - Biden with arm around little man Macron - will be cover photo in French press tomorrow."

White House Bloomberg reporter Josh Wingrove said: "Biden and Macron each had an arm around each other as they walked away after the so-called G7 family photo.

It marks the first face-to-face event of its kind to be held since coronavirus restrictions were put in place.

Following the photograph, Mr Johnson chaired the summit's opening meeting, saying the world should "level up" after the pandemic. 

He said the world has been going through "the most wretched pandemic our countries have faced for our lifetimes, maybe longer".

The Prime Minister said it was vital "we don't repeat the mistakes" of the previous financial crisis when the recovery was not "uniform across all parts of society".

He added: "What risks being a lasting scar is I think inequalities may be entrenched."

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2021-06-11 13:50:00Z
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Biden at the 2021 G7 Summit: Live updates - CNN International

President Biden announced Thursday evening that the United States plans to donate 500 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as part of his efforts to reassert US leadership on the world stage.

"America knows first-hand the tragedy of this pandemic. We've had more people die in the United States than anywhere in the world, nearly 600,000 of our fellow Americans," Biden said in remarks after meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He added, "We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery."

The move will also serve to counter efforts by Russia and China to use their own state-funded vaccines to expand their global influence.

During remarks announcing the vaccine purchase, Biden underscored that there were no strings attached with accepting the US-bought vaccines.

'Let me be clear: Just as with the 80 million doses we previously announced, the United States is providing these half-(billion) doses with no strings attached," Biden said. "Our vaccine donations don't include pressure for favors or potential concessions. We're doing this to save lives, to end this pandemic. That's it. Period."

Administration officials suggested the move is part of a broader effort for the world's democracies to lead the way in pandemic recovery. The effort to donate doses is also intended to encourage other US allies to step up.

"We're also using this announcement today to leverage and mobilize larger commitments from the world's democracies, from the G7 and partner countries," a separate senior official said, previewing a "G7 Covid-related multilateral announcement."

At the G7 summit this weekend, the official said, leaders will announce a "collective effort by the world's democracies to beat Covid-19 for once and for all."

Here are other key things to know about the donation:

  • With regards to the timeline, officials said the Pfizer doses will begin to ship in August and 200 million doses will be delivered by the end of this year.
  • The remaining 300 million doses will be delivered in the first half of 2022.
  • They will be manufactured in the US, the officials said, "employing thousands of workers" in states like Michigan, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
  • The cost will be around $1.5 billion, which will come from previously allocated funds in the American Rescue Plan relief package passed earlier this year.

Read more about Biden's announcement here.

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2021-06-11 10:09:45Z
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Last chance, Ursula! VDL given final warning as MEPs turn on EU chief - court battle looms - Daily Express

The Commission President has been graced with an extra four months of time to avoid legal actions by European Parliament members. MEPs had originally given Ms von der Leyen a June 1 deadline to act, threatening to take the Commission chief to court.

They then asked Parliament President David Sassoli to trigger Article 265 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

The protocol would see the Commission taken to court for failing to take action against “the growing risk of misusing the Union’s budget as means to deteriorate the Rule of Law in some Member States.”

In a note to President Sassoli, they said they "regret" the Commission not taking action “in the most obvious cases of the breaches of the Rule of Law in the EU".

They added: “To be prepared, the EP shall in the meantime immediately start the necessary preparations for potential court proceedings under Article 265 of TFEU against the Commission."

But on Thursday, they decided to give the Commission an extra four months to act.

The vote, approved by 505 MEPs, came after European Parliament vice-President Katarina Barley scolded the Commission over its inaction against Hungary and Poland.

Brussels has been locked in an ongoing dispute with the two countries over controversial legal reforms, which the EU claims endanger judicial independence.

The bloc has consequently launched proceedings in accordance with Article 7 of the EU’s constitution, which could theoretically see both sides lose their European Council voting rights unless they back down.

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"They can punish judges and public prosecutors or even dismiss them. The European Court of Justice already ruled in April 2019 that these chambers are not allowed to 'discipline'. But despite strong pressure from Parliament, the Commission initially did nothing for a long time.

"And when they did react recently, it consisted of a new letter to the Polish government requesting a statement.

"There was not even a threat of financial sanctions, which would have been possible without further ado."

She continued: "In other words, we cannot trust that the Commission will act and care when it says it will.

"We now want to prevent that it will take forever before something will happen again. The Commission says that 'no case is lost'.

"But if we look again at the example of Poland: judges and public prosecutors are harassed - some of them are transferred to the other end of the country or parts of their salaries are cut; they will be taken to court.

"This is happening now. And that cannot be healed afterwards."

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America May Be ‘Back’ in Europe, but How Much Has Really Changed? - The New York Times

Despite the feel-good imagery expected to be on display at the Group of 7 meeting, many Europeans suspect that President Biden is little more interested in give-and-take than was his predecessor.

FALMOUTH, England — Few images captured the rupture in trans-Atlantic relations better than that of President Donald J. Trump in 2018, arms folded across his chest as he resisted Chancellor Angela Merkel and other frustrated leaders in their doomed effort to salvage their summit meeting in Canada.

When the same leaders reconvene in Cornwall, England, on Friday, President Biden will reverse the body language, replacing impasse with embrace. But beneath the imagery, it is not clear how much more open the United States will be to give-and-take with Europe than it was under Mr. Trump.

The trans-Atlantic partnership has always been less reciprocal than its champions like to pretend — a marriage in which one partner, the United States, carried the nuclear umbrella. Now, with China replacing the Soviet Union as America’s archrival, the two sides are less united than they were during the Cold War, a geopolitical shift that lays bare longstanding stresses between them.

So a lingering question looms over Friday’s reunion of the Group of 7 industrialized nations: Will this show of solidarity be more than a diplomatic pantomime — reassuring to Europeans traumatized by Mr. Trump’s “America First” policy but bound to disappoint them when they realize that the United States under Mr. Biden is still going its own way?

President Donald J. Trump facing off with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other leaders at a G7 meeting in Canada in 2018.
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“America’s foreign policy hasn’t fundamentally changed,” said Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the British Parliament. “It’s more cooperative and inclusive, but substantially it’s the same.”

“Like all leaders,” he added, “Biden is putting his own country first. How he achieves that is what has distracted many.”

Few Europeans question the sincerity of his outreach. More so than even his former boss, Barack Obama, Mr. Biden is an Atlanticist, with decades of involvement in European concerns from the Balkans to Belfast.

On Thursday, he joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson to unveil a new Atlantic Charter, modeled on the post-World War II blueprint signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

In their first face-to-face meeting, Mr. Biden and Mr. Johnson projected unity, each pledging that his country would commit hundreds of millions of vaccine doses to the developing world.

“I’m not going to disagree with the president on that or anything else,” Mr. Johnson said, after Mr. Biden said both he and the newlywed prime minister had “married above our station.”

Yet the president has made a more aggressive approach to China the lodestar of his foreign policy. While American officials are seeking Europe’s support for that effort, analysts said their expectations are limited, given the commercial interests of Germany and other countries and the fact that Ms. Merkel and other Europeans have shown no appetite for a new Cold War with Beijing.

“The Biden administration is determined to be polite, determined to hear them out, and then it will do whatever it was planning to do,” said Jeremy Shapiro, who worked in the State Department during the Obama administration and is now the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations in London.

“It doesn’t matter what U.S. policy is toward Europe,” Mr. Shapiro said, summarizing what he said was the prevailing view in the administration. “We’re going to get the same amount out of them on China.”

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The skepticism runs both ways. Many European officials view Mr. Biden’s declaration that “America is back” with a jaundiced eye, however well-intentioned, given the assault on the U.S. Capitol and other threats to American democracy, not to mention Mr. Trump’s iron hold over the Republican Party.

“We’re living in an era of diminished trust,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the United States who runs the Munich Security Conference, where Mr. Biden has been a regular speaker.

Germans, he said, used to think it did not matter much to the trans-Atlantic alliance if the president was a Democrat or a Republican. Now, Mr. Ischinger said, “We are, for the first time in 70 years, confronted with a new question: What happens if a resurrected Trump reappears on the stage?”

White House officials have carefully choreographed Mr. Biden’s trip to make it a summer festival of alliance repair. But back in Washington, analysts say its personnel moves show a more marginalized role for Europe.

The White House has named prominent officials to coordinate Indo-Pacific and Middle East policy in the National Security Council. There is no counterpart for Europe, nor has the administration made diplomatic appointments, like an ambassador to NATO or an envoy to handle Northern Ireland.

Mr. Biden has welcomed the leaders of Japan and South Korea at the White House, though not yet any major European leader.

On the eve of his visit to Britain, a senior American diplomat expressed blunt concerns to Mr. Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator about how Britain was handling tensions over post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland.

There is a similar sense of limited expectations on both sides about Russia, even with Mr. Biden set to meet President Vladimir V. Putin next week in Geneva. Relations between Washington and Moscow soured swiftly in the early months of the administration, as the United States faced a Russian hacking operation, evidence of continued Russian interference in the 2020 presidential campaign and Mr. Putin’s massing of troops on Russia’s border with Ukraine.

Russia’s arrest of the opposition leader, Aleksei A. Navalny, three days before Mr. Biden’s inauguration, set the tone for the tensions to come.

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Far from the “reset button” that Mr. Biden famously announced in 2009 while serving as Mr. Obama’s vice president, his meeting with Mr. Putin seems designed mostly to keep a lid on tensions with a habitually fractious Russia, so both sides can avoid conflicts that could disrupt Mr. Biden’s domestic agenda.

Given what analysts say is Mr. Putin’s calculation that Russia benefits by sowing instability, they question how successful Mr. Biden will be. Europe’s proximity to Russia — and the reliance of Germany on its natural gas — means that instability would pose a greater threat to Europe than to the United States.

“The problem with China is that it’s not our neighbor, but it’s the U.S.’s neighbor,” said Robin Niblett, the director of Chatham House, a think tank in London. “Russia is Europe’s neighbor, and that reality makes it complicated, but only to the extent that the United States wants to dial up the temperature.”

The administration’s zigzag course on Nord Stream 2, a gas pipeline that runs from Russia to Germany, has left some in Europe scratching their heads. Mr. Biden publicly opposed the pipeline as a “bad idea,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has said. But Mr. Blinken recently declined to impose sanctions on those behind the $11 billion project, saying its completion was a “fait accompli.”

The reversal, on the eve of Mr. Biden’s European tour, seemed calculated to avoid a rift with Germany, a critical ally. But in Britain, which takes a harder line against Russia than does Germany, some officials said they worried that the decision would embolden Mr. Putin and weaken the eastern border of Ukraine.

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While the trans-Atlantic differences over China are significant, officials on both sides say Europe is moving gradually in Mr. Biden’s direction. The European Parliament last month held up ratification of a landmark investment treaty between Brussels and Beijing. That followed Beijing’s sanctioning of 10 European Union politicians in what the Europeans viewed as an over-the-top response to sanctions it imposed on China for its detention of Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang.

Britain has swung into alignment with the United States on China, restricting the access of the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, to its 5G network. But analysts caution that the shift is motivated less by a change of heart about Beijing than a desire, after Brexit, not to be out of step with its most important ally.

Some in Europe argue that Mr. Biden’s China policy is not yet fully formed, noting that there was no shortage of diplomatic pantomime in the stormy meeting Mr. Blinken held in March with Chinese officials in Alaska.

Europe’s views could evolve, too, with the departure of Ms. Merkel, a firm believer in engagement with China, after 16 years in office and with President Emmanuel Macron of France facing a difficult election campaign next year.

“The E.U.’s position on China has hardened as a result of the human rights issues,” said Simon Fraser, a former top civil servant in Britain’s Foreign Office. “I suspect there is a lot of commonality, even as divergent national interests come into play.”

Still, some Europeans have been put off by how Mr. Biden has cast the competition with China in starkly ideological terms — as a fateful battle between democracy and autocracy, in which the autocrats could win.

For leaders like Ms. Merkel, whose country sells millions of Volkswagens and BMWs in China, the relationship is driven by trade and technology, not a potential military clash in the South China Sea.

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“There is a deep psychological issue at play,” said Thomas Wright, director of the Center on Europe and the United States at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “Some Europeans believe the U.S. is too nostalgic for the Cold War and too ready to go back to that.”

These are, of course, the early days of Mr. Biden’s presidency. Analysts said he had already recalibrated his message on China and Russia from two months ago, when he told Congress that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, thinks “democracy can’t compete in the 21st century with autocracies.”

Charles A. Kupchan, a professor at Georgetown University who worked on European affairs in the Obama administration, said Mr. Biden’s goal was to head off the creation of a Sino-Russian bloc against the West. That will require the help of allies, which is why he predicted Mr. Biden would not only listen to, but hear, the Europeans.

“This attempt to find geopolitical dividing lines won’t find a lot of support among American allies,” Mr. Kupchan said.

Mr. Biden appears sensitive to these concerns. In an op-ed column in the Washington Post last Sunday outlining his goals for the trip, he dispensed with combative references to an autocratic China. Instead, he wrote about whether the United States and its allies could meet a rather anodyne challenge: “Can democracies come together to deliver real results for our people in a rapidly changing world?”

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Kamis, 10 Juni 2021

Child's body found in bag on seabed believed to be missing girl - Metro.co.uk

Tomas Gimeno disappeared with his children Olivia and Anna on April 27 after failing to return them to their home in Tenerife.
Tomas Gimeno disappeared with the girls on April 27 after failing to return them to their home (Picture: Solarpix)

A child has been found in a bag on the ocean floor and authorities believe it is ‘almost certainly’ a missing girl who was snatched by her fugitive dad.

The body was found in a sports bag more than 3,000 feet underwater in the Atlantic off Tenerife.

Spanish investigators believe it to be that of Olivia Gimeno, six, who was taken along with her toddler sister Anna by their father Tomas Gimeno on April 27.

It was found next to a second empty sports bag, raising fears that one-year-old Anna may never be found if she was in it.

The discovery comes after a diving bottle and duvet cover belonging to Gimeno, 37, was found on Monday on the seabed near the same area.

Beatriz Zimmerman, the girls’ anguished mother, has been informed.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez: ‘I cannot begin to imagine the pain of the mother of little Anna and Olivia, who disappeared in Tenerife, following the terrible news we have just heard.

‘I send a hug and my love and that of my whole family, who today show solidarity with Beatriz and her loved ones.’

Tomas Gimeno disappeared with his children Olivia and Anna on April 27 after failing to return them to their home in Tenerife.
A sports bag containing a body was found by a robot from the search vessel Angeles Alvarino (Picture: Solarpix)

Gimeno was said to have never accepted Beatriz’s relationship with a new Belgian partner following their split.

Global police agency Interpol had issued two ‘yellow notices’ in the search for the missing girls.

Celebrities with huge followings online including Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodriguez shared a video of the girls which Beatriz released.  

However, their worst fears were all-but confirmed with the discovery on Thursday.

An update on the situation was provided by a spokesperson for the investigating Spanish magistrate in charge of the ongoing judicial probe.

Tomas Gimeno disappeared with his children Olivia and Anna on April 27 after failing to return them to their home in Tenerife.
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The spokesperson said. ‘Pending more conclusive forensic tests, the body could almost certainly correspond to that of Olivia G, the youngster who vanished on April 27 with her one-year-old sister and their father.

‘The body was found by a robot from the search vessel Angeles Alvarino at midday today around 1,000 metres below the water some three miles off the Tenerife coast.

‘It was inside a sports bag attached to an anchor. Next to it was another empty sports bag.

‘The body was taken to dry land for an autopsy.

‘The vessel called Angeles Alvarino is continuing its search.’

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2021-06-10 22:29:00Z
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Drugs kingpin El Chapo's wife faces long sentence after admitting to helping run his empire - Sky News

The wife of jailed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has pleaded guilty to a range of charges after being accused of helping to run his vast empire.

Emma Coronel Aispuro faced accusations she aided El Chapo in managing the Sinaloa cartel, assisting his 2015 prison escape and conspiring to distribute illegal drugs.

The 31-year-old could face life in prison after admitting a drug distribution charge at a federal court in Washington DC.

She also pleaded guilty to other charges of money laundering and engaging in financial dealings for the drug cartel, which could carry a combined 30 years in prison - though she is more likely to spend around a decade in jail.

As part of her plea agreement, she also admitted conspiring to helping her husband escape in 2015 from Altiplano,
a Mexican maximum security prison.

Emma Coronel Aispuro has been accused of helping her husband escape prison
Image: Emma Coronel Aispuro, pictured outside court in February, admitted helping her husband escape from prison in 2015

Coronel Aispuro, who was born in California and holds both US and Mexican citizenship, could also be fined up to $10m (£7.1m).

Wearing a green jumpsuit and white face mask to enter her plea before District Judge Rudolph Contreras, she said she understood the charges and repercussions of her guilty pleas.

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The judge has set a tentative sentencing date of 15 September.

The former beauty queen was arrested in February on allegations she relayed messages to help her husband traffic drugs between 2012 and 2014 and she continued delivering messages to Guzman during prison visits after his arrest in February 2014.

Clad in a beige uniform marked "3870," the captured drug kingpin answered the Mexican prison guard's questions calmly, barely looking up as he scrubbed black fingerprint ink from his hands.
Image: Guzman is currently serving a life sentence in a Colorado supermax prison

In July 2015, Guzman escaped from a federal prison in Mexico, through a tunnel leading to the Santa Juanita neighbourhood in Puebla.

He was previously arrested in 2001 but had escaped from a Mexican prison with the help of a maintenance worker.

In February 2019, Guzman, 64, was convicted for masterminding the drug empire in a high-profile trial in New York.

He was sentenced to life plus further 30 years, and is being held in a supermax prison in Colorado.

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2021-06-10 21:54:47Z
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