| Twitter flags Trump tweet on Minneapolis protests for 'glorifying violence' Posted: 29 May 2020 04:43 AM PDT  The social media platform added a warning to his tweet encouraging violence against unarmed civilians protesting the death of George Floyd.
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| Can you contract coronavirus from a surface or object? Posted: 29 May 2020 03:48 PM PDT  The CDC says that it may be possible to contract COVID-19 by coming in contact with a surface or object that has the virus on it, but you're much more likely to get the coronavirus through person-to-person transmission.
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| Amy Klobuchar's position on 2006 shooting by officer in George Floyd death 'could cost her VP role' Posted: 29 May 2020 09:57 AM PDT  Amy Klobuchar's decision as a Minneapolis prosecutor in 2006 not to bring charges against the police officer filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd could cost her the role of vice president, critics have said.With Joe Biden asking Ms Klobuchar to undergo official vetting to be his running mate in November, the death of Mr Floyd has renewed scrutiny of her record as a district attorney that reportedly brought zero charges against police involved in 40 deaths during her tenure.
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| Fire and Fury: Crowd Attacks CNN Center in Atlanta Posted: 29 May 2020 06:10 PM PDT  CNN Center, the cable network's Atlanta headquarters, came under attack Friday night during protests over police brutality sparked by the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis.A largely peaceful demonstration erupted first in vandalism, then in violence. Cops used pepper spray, and then some in the crowd were seen smashing windows and defacing the giant CNN sign with spray-paint. Down the street, a police car was set ablaze.CNN correspondent Nick Valencia began reporting on the frightening scene from a stairway inside the building, behind a phalanx of SWAT officers in the lobby, with an angry mob standing on the other side of the broken and missing plate glass."I have a daughter and wife I want to get home to tonight," Valencia told anchor Chris Cuomo.Protesters lobbed objects at the windows and into the lobby, and at least one officer was struck. What appeared to be a flash-bang device landed in front of police and large gusts of smoke went up into the air.One protester breached the building and was immediately arrested by cops as Valencia shouted questions at him, asking why he was there. "Change," he replied.As the violence flared and the situation in the lobby became more precarious, cops began firing tear gas and the crowd quickly began to thin out. Live footage showed over a dozen police officers holding the line with shields, barricades, and armored vehicles pushing protesters away from the building as objects continued to be hurled. The tense scene unfolded just hours after CNN found itself at the center of the story about protests in Minneapolis, where George Floyd died, pleading "I can't breathe" while a police officer kneeled on his neck.Reporter Omar Jimenez and members of his crew were arrested by state police while covering fiery demonstrations in the city—prompting the governor of Minnesota to issue a public apology."There is absolutely no reason something like this should happen. Calls were made immediately. This is a very public apology to that team. It should not happen," Gov. Tim Walz said in a Friday news conference, adding that he took "full responsibility" for the early-morning incident. "I failed you last night in that."President Trump, on the other hand, appeared to gloat, retweeting a message that read, "In an ironic twist of fate, CNN HQ is being attacked by the very riots they promoted as noble & just."In a Friday evening press conference, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was visibly angry as she told protesters to "go home" after thousands marched from the Georgia capitol to the Centennial Olympic Park before gathering outside CNN. "What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest, This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is chaos. A protest has a purpose," Bottoms said, stating that the protests are "disgracing the life of George Floyd.""When Dr. King was assassinated, we didn't do this to our city. If you want to change in America, go and register to vote...that is the change we need in this country."Rapper T.I. also spoke at the mayor's press conference, stating that Atlanta "has already been here for us" and does not deserve to be burnt down. "This is a moment where people are fed up. I have to make an appeal to my brothers and sisters because I realize the only way to get constructive change is through nonviolent means," Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., added. Their pleading did not not sway everyone. As midnight neared, looters descended on upscale malls in Buckhead, and firefighters were blocked from reaching a blaze at Del Frisco's Grille."There have been multiple instances of shots being fired in close proximity to our officers and shots were fired at an officer in a patrol vehicle on Peachtree Road at Lenox Road. We continue our efforts at restoring peace in our city," Sgt. John Chafee said in a statement.Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency and activated 500 National Guard members in an attempt to restore order.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Israel police kill Palestinian they mistakenly thought was armed Posted: 30 May 2020 07:43 AM PDT  Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem on Saturday shot dead a disabled Palestinian they mistakenly thought was armed with a pistol, prompting furious condemnation from the Palestinians. The incident happened in the alleys of the walled Old City near Lions' Gate, an access point mainly used by Palestinians. "Police units on patrol there spotted a suspect with a suspicious object that looked like a pistol," an Israeli police statement said.
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| Republican lawmakers accused of hiding positive COVID-19 test result from Democrats, who call it 'immoral' Posted: 28 May 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Democratic lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are demanding answers after learning that one of their Republican colleagues tested positive for COVID-19, shared that information with GOP leadership, but never informed them.
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| Cemeteries braced for surge in Covid-19 dead as Mexico readies to reopen Posted: 30 May 2020 02:15 AM PDT  The president says the pandemic has been tamed but experts, and those who must bury the dead, fear an alarming rise in casesFour generations of Enrique Ruvalcaba's family have worked at the Mezquitán cemetery in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. None of them ever saw anything like this. Before the coronavirus, the burial ground was open to the public, and the deceased were honoured by flower-carrying mourners and mariachis. Now the dead arrive in silence and alone."Only the box came, not a single relative, just the coffin," Ruvalcaba, 32, said of the first Covid-19 burial he witnessed last month. "Absolutely everything has changed."The Guadalajara graveyard, which has added 700 tombs for an anticipated wave of Covid deaths, has yet to see a major increase of victims – but Ruvalcaba said gravediggers had been advised to prepare. "They've told us a more intense phase is coming," he said.Yet as Mexico's daily death toll rises to become one of the highest in the world – a record 501 fatalities were reported on Tuesday alone – the country is simultaneously preparing to reopen and weathering a politically charged battle over the true scale of the crisis."We're doing well, the pandemic has been tamed," Mexico's populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claimed on Thursday as he announced he would resume touring the country when a period of nationwide quarantine was wound down next week.Alejandro Macías, a leading infectious diseases specialist, said he understood and supported the need to plot out a return to some kind of normality for Mexico's 129 million citizens."It's good to have a plan and it is good for this plan to constantly put people's lives first," he said.But Macías, who was Mexico's influenza chief during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, said he was worried things were moving too fast, when the extent of the crisis remained unclear and different parts of the country were at different stages of transmission."The risk is that there will be another substantial rise in the number of cases and that this could cause some hospitals to collapse – and if the hospitals collapse this could put the security and governance of some regions at risk," Macías warned."In many parts of the republic the curve has barely started to rise."Macías said he suspected political pressure from López Obrador's year-old government and the United States – which is highly reliant on Mexican supply chains – explained the authorities' desire to promote the idea the crisis was under control."It is exactly like what is happening in the United States. The government there is also putting pressure on to show a certain normality and tranquillity when clearly they can't yet say they have the situation under control" and were still suffering "terrifying" Covid figures, Macías said."I feel there is a great deal of political pressure – much more in Mexico than in other parts of Latin America – because Mexico's industrial production is so tightly connected to industry in the United States. And they want to reopen but can't do so if Mexican industry doesn't reopen, because we are so integrated."Latin America's number two economy registered its first Covid case in late February and has since recorded more than 9,000 deaths and 81,400 cases, although the government admits the true number is probably considerably higher.One report this week found Mexico City had issued 8,000 more death certificates than usual between January and late May, suggesting a significantly higher death toll.López Obrador, who was criticized for his initially dismissive attitude to the pandemic, has been bullish about Mexico's response. On 26 April, with 1,351 deaths and 14,677 infections, he claimed it had managed "to tame" the coronavirus. But many are not so sure. A month after those claims, Mexico had suffered 9,044 deaths and 81,400 cases.Macías said it was likely many more had died. "Right now we have less than 10,000 recognized deaths. But it's very probable the true figure is substantially bigger – probably double that."Behind those statistics lie thousands of grieving families – some of which have lost multiple members to Covid-19.Karlo Colín, who works at a funeral home in Mexico City, said he and his colleagues had handled 60 coronavirus cases in the last three weeks. One family had lost five members, another four. "Every week a family member dies," Colín said.Despite the rising death toll, many Mexicans seem in denial. Even Colín, on the frontlines of the pandemic, admitted having doubts."A lot of people don't believe in the virus," the undertaker said. "There are times where I say, how is it possible that the guy giving me the body, at the centre of the infection, doesn't have protective equipment? Is this real or isn't it?"Adrián Carranza, a nursing student, has been conducting Covid-19 evaluations at Mexico City's main market, the Central de Abasto – and referring suspected patients for testing. He said that many vendors remained skeptical despite the deaths of several vendors."They'll say, sure, that guy over there died, but we don't know why," Carranza said.Carranza and his colleagues have faced harassment at the market, where about 40% of the stalls have shut down."Because of misinformation, more than anything else, they think we're hurting them, that we're going to inject them with the virus," he said. "They yell that we're murderers."As Mexico prepares to reopen, Guadalajara's gravediggers are readying themselves for the dead.Ruvalcaba, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather all worked in the same cemetery, called his colleagues the hidden heroes of the Covid-19 crisis."It's a really noble line of work. People talk about the doctors and the nurses but nobody thinks about the people who are laying Covid's victims to rest," said Ruvalcaba, who has been digging tombs since he was 12."It's like doctors' work – only from the moment when the patient has gone to a better life," Ruvalcaba added. "And someone has to do it."
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| Coronavirus quietly started spreading as early as January, CDC says Posted: 29 May 2020 10:35 AM PDT  By early February, there was "cryptic circulation" of the virus.
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| White House encourages hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus again Posted: 28 May 2020 02:03 PM PDT  Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany strongly endorsed the "prophylactic" use of hydroxychloroquine: that is, to prevent contracting the coronavirus.
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| Powell: Fed to soon begin 'challenging' Main Street lending Posted: 29 May 2020 09:32 AM PDT  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged Friday that the Fed faces a major challenge with the launch in the coming days of a program that will lend to companies other than banks for the first time since the Great Depression. The Fed's Main Street Lending is geared toward medium-sized companies that are too large for the government's small business lending program and too small to sell bonds or stock to the public. Powell said that Main Street will make its first loans in a "few days."
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| George Floyd autopsy shows no signs of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation, attributes death to 'being restrained, his underlying health conditions, and any potential intoxicants in his system' Posted: 30 May 2020 07:58 AM PDT  Floyd was "non-responsive" for nearly three minutes before the police officer took his knee off his neck, the report said.
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| A partygoer who attended the now-infamous Lake of the Ozarks pool party has tested positive for COVID-19, meaning hundreds could have been exposed Posted: 29 May 2020 11:10 PM PDT  The individual began showing symptoms on Sunday and was likely "incubating illness and possibly infectious at the time of the visit."
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| Defense secretary says coronavirus vaccine will be available within months, but experts skeptical Posted: 28 May 2020 01:30 PM PDT  Pentagon leaders expressed strong confidence Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by January, and possibly as early as this fall — claims that were met with skepticism by scientific experts.
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| Colombia will not ease quarantine in capital, cities hit hard by coronavirus Posted: 30 May 2020 09:26 AM PDT  Colombia issued new measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in three of its most affected cities on Saturday, including the capital Bogota, as the rest of the country prepares for quarantine rules to start lifting. Colombia began a nationwide quarantine in late March to control the spread of COVID-19. All of Colombia will observe current measures until Sunday, as thousands of businesses are gradually re-opening with safety protocols and reduced staff.
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| Coronavirus: South Korea closes schools again after biggest spike in weeks Posted: 29 May 2020 02:33 AM PDT  Schools that had just re-opened days ago have now been forced shut again after a spike in cases.
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| Joe Biden says he will announce running mate by August Posted: 28 May 2020 04:03 PM PDT  Prominent pollster pushed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to select Elizabeth Warren; Peter Doocy reports.
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| Russia slams 'dangerous' US foreign policy moves Posted: 28 May 2020 03:00 PM PDT  Russia said on Thursday the United States was acting in a dngerous and unpredictable way, after Washington withdrew from a key military treaty and moved to ramp up pressure on Iran. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made the comments after Washington announced it would end sanctions waivers for nations that remain in a nuclear accord signed with Iran.
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| President is slammed for leaving ‘press conference’ without addressing Minnesota as he disbands US relationship with WHO Posted: 29 May 2020 05:05 AM PDT  Donald Trump held a "press conference" on Friday to discuss the United State's relationship with China, but then left the Rose Garden without taking questions or addressing the mounting situation in Minnesota following the death of George Floyd.The president announced during his statement the US would disband its relationship with the World Health Organisation (WHO) amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| The End of Hong Kong? Posted: 29 May 2020 07:45 AM PDT  The 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to the People's Republic of China marked the end of Western colonial rule in the region. Optimistic Western policy hands hoped that the final mending of the "unequal treaties," as they were called by the Chinese Communist Party, would initiate Beijing's integration into the rules-based world order.Recent events in Hong Kong put paid to this hope.The days of China's "peaceful rise," when the CCP steadfastly denied its hegemonic ambitions, are long gone. In light of China's clampdown on Hong Kong, the transfer of the autonomous region now appears to have entailed swapping one imperial government for another. As if to remove any doubt, China's National People's Congress bypassed the Hong Kong Legislative Council this week and imposed a new national-security law. The law, which bans all "seditious activity," effectively nullifies the Hong Kong Basic Law according to which the territory is guaranteed autonomy from the Mainland until 2047.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded appropriately in announcing that, under the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act passed last year, Washington would no longer consider Hong Kong independent of China. The White House will reconsider the privileges and immunities granted to the autonomous region, including its preferential trade status, visa exemptions, and flexible foreign-exchange regime.Critics argue that the measures will cause undue economic harm to the region. Hong Kong's economy will suffer, but the millions of Hong Kongers who have taken to the streets in protest have demonstrated in no uncertain terms that they value freedom over GDP growth. Indeed, the rule of law is what allowed Hong Kong to build a thriving economy in the first place. The short-term harms from reduced trade and investment pale in comparison to the disaster of Mainland dominance of Hong Kong. Worse, allowing China to violate the 1984 Sino–British Joint Declaration, registered at the U.N., will send a signal that the U.S. is unwilling to stand by a basic element of the international order.In any event, the White House ultimately has little choice. Congress has all but required the administration to decertify Hong Kong's autonomous status in this circumstance. The legislation also calls for sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for Hong Kong's suppression, a measure that the White House should undertake as Beijing moves to implement the law.We obviously also need a strategy to combat Chinese belligerence elsewhere. Control of Hong Kong is only one step in China's quest to "occupy a central position in the world," as Chinese president Xi Jinping has put it. The Hong Kong security law coincides with increasingly aggressive naval exercises in the South and East China Seas and a sudden military buildup on the Sino–Indian border. The Chinese have also made clear their intention to annex Taiwan, and show no signs of rolling back their programs of industrial espionage and anti-competitive trade practices. The White House must resist China on all fronts.The administration should mobilize our allies in the fight. As Pompeo made his announcement, German chancellor Angela Merkel said that the European Union has a "great strategic interest" in cooperating with China. Neither have the British, who designed the transfer of Hong Kong, shown much interest in pushing back on Chinese aggression. European leaders are enticed by the economic benefits of cooperating with Beijing, and it will require a deft diplomatic touch to persuade them to take a more strategically sound posture.Hong Kong is the last redoubt of freedom and decency in China's contiguous territory. The White House should do everything reasonably within its power to try to safeguard it.
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| Texas Children's Hospital treating several children with inflammatory illness linked to COVID-19 Posted: 28 May 2020 07:28 PM PDT  Some of the children are reportedly in critical condition. Though the illness itself isn't contagious, but could be deadly if left untreated.
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| Editorial: Stop focusing on looting in Minneapolis. Be outraged that police keep killing black men Posted: 29 May 2020 01:22 PM PDT  There is anger on the streets in Minneapolis. It is understandable given the killing of yet another unarmed black man as he was arrested.
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| Exclusive: U.S. warns governments, firms against aiding Iran fuel shipments to Venezuela - envoy Posted: 29 May 2020 12:38 PM PDT  Seeking to deter further shipments of Iranian fuel to Venezuela, the Trump administration has quietly warned foreign governments, seaports, shipping companies and insurers that they could face stiff U.S. sanctions if they aid the tanker flotilla, the U.S. envoy on Venezuela told Reuters on Friday. Elliott Abrams, Washington's special representative on Venezuela, said the pressure campaign targeting heavily sanctioned U.S. foes Iran and Venezuela was being waged "to be sure everyone recognizes this would be a very dangerous transaction to assist."
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| Marauding monkeys attack lab technician and steal Covid-19 tests Posted: 29 May 2020 05:00 AM PDT  A band of marauding monkeys has attacked a laboratory technician and stolen three Covid-19 test samples, raising fears they will infect themselves and then spread the deadly disease to humans. The worker was attacked outside a medical college in Meerut, northern India, while transporting samples from patients suspected of having coronavirus. The monkeys ran off into a residential area. The employee is said to have been unharmed, but has angered officials after filming the aftermath of the attack, rather than attempting to retrieve the samples from the fleeing monkeys. Monkeys can contract Covid-19 and then infect humans, according to scientists. Some Indians have been worried about catching the deadly virus from animals and it led to pet dogs being released onto the streets during the start of the pandemic. Others saw the funny side of the monkey attack, with the incident coming days after the Indian authorities detained a pigeon in Jammu & Kashmir on suspicion of spying for Pakistan. "The nation wants to know if Pakistan has sent those monkeys to steal coronavirus samples," joked one user on Twitter. "These are highly trained monkeys and very intelligent monkeys." In India, groups of monkeys are attacking people with increasing regularity as they are displaced from their natural habitats by urban sprawl. Their attacks can prove deadly - particularly for young children who are vulnerable to their powerful bites. In 2018, a 12-day-old baby boy died after he was bitten by a monkey in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal.
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| Trump announces probe of Chinese companies listed in US Posted: 29 May 2020 01:10 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump on Friday ordered a probe into the actions of Chinese companies listed on American financial markets as tensions flared anew between the world's two biggest economies. The announcement followed Beijing's move to implement a new security law on semi-autonomous Hong Kong that critics say would stifle freedom, as well as with Trump's claims that China obfuscated the origins of the coronavirus that has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States. "I'm instructing my presidential working group on financial markets to study the differing practices of Chinese companies listed on the US financial markets with the goal of protecting American investors," Trump said, without providing details on what steps his administration might take.
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| Five drug companies told to recall diabetes medication amid cancer fears Posted: 29 May 2020 11:53 AM PDT  Five US pharmaceutical companies have been told to recall their versions of a type of diabetes medication after tests found worrying levels of a chemical linked to cancer.Several batches of metformin, which is widely used to reduce excess blood sugar in type 2 diabetes patients, tested positive for unsafe levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Thursday.
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| Cuomo says N.Y. attorney general will review night of violent protests Posted: 30 May 2020 09:23 AM PDT  Violent clashes between police and civilians took place during protests in Brooklyn on Friday.
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| Warrant: Police find remains of second child in yard Posted: 29 May 2020 10:44 AM PDT  The remains of a second child that belonged to a Tennessee couple facing abuse charges have been found buried in a yard, court records said. A search warrant affidavit says police recovered the remains of a boy from a Knox County property where Michael and Shirley Gray lived until about 2016, news outlets reported on Friday. Police began searching the property after finding the body of a girl buried under a barn at the Gray's current home in nearby Roane County.
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| SpaceX and NASA prepare to launch historic crewed mission, but weather remains an issue Posted: 30 May 2020 06:21 AM PDT  The historic liftoff was originally scheduled to take place Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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| International naval operation nets 50 tonnes of cocaine in 45 days Posted: 29 May 2020 01:33 PM PDT |
| Denmark and Norway cut coronavirus-hit Sweden out of free travel deal Posted: 29 May 2020 08:21 AM PDT  The governments of Denmark and Norway have cut Sweden out of a deal allowing each other's tourists to travel freely between the two countries — citing their Nordic neighbour's higher levels of coronavirus infection. The deal, announced at parallel press conferences in Oslo and Copenhagen on Friday afternoon, showed Sweden has failed in its diplomatic efforts to be included in the first stage of a Nordic travel bubble. Under the deal, people from Denmark will from June 15 be allowed to enter Norway without needing to quarantine, while tourists from Norway will be able to enter Denmark, so long as they have booked accommodation for at least six days. As she announced the agreement, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen acknowledged that it would be difficult for many Swedes. "Danes and Swedes have family, lovers, and holiday homes across the border," she said. "Denmark and Sweden are at different places in relation to the coronavirus [epidemic], and this has a bearing on what we can decide in relation to the border."
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| India announces major easing of coronavirus lockdown Posted: 30 May 2020 08:04 AM PDT  India said Saturday it would begin a major relaxation of the world's biggest coronavirus lockdown from early June, even as the country saw another record rise in confirmed infections. Prime Minister Narenda Modi conceded that much of the country had since "undergone tremendous suffering" in an open letter to the public on Saturday. The end of the lockdown will be staged and for now will not include some "containment zones" where high infection rates have been detected, according to the home ministry.
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| Back off, Trump. Germany wants to Make Europe Strong Again. Posted: 30 May 2020 05:57 AM PDT  Berlin's EU presidency motto has echoes of MAGA.
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| Woman drives vehicle into protesters at George Floyd rally in Denver Posted: 29 May 2020 01:00 PM PDT  The black SUV entered a street that had been closed. A man jumped on the hood to avoid being run over, then jumped off and was later struck.
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| Hong Kong: China fury amid global pressure over security law Posted: 29 May 2020 11:02 AM PDT  The UK and US condemn plans for a new security law at the UN Security Council, drawing Beijing's ire.
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| Louis Sheldon, anti-gay Christian group founder, dies at 85 Posted: 29 May 2020 03:51 PM PDT |
| The anti-vax movement is using growing hesitation around the coronavirus vaccine to attract more people Posted: 30 May 2020 07:06 AM PDT  Surveys suggest Americans are increasingly unsure if they'd get a coronavirus vaccine. The anti-vaccine movement is using that to gain followers.
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| Three wounded in shootout in Kiev suburb, 20 detained Posted: 29 May 2020 07:12 AM PDT  Dozens of people, some armed with what appeared to be hunting rifles, clashed in broad daylight on Friday in a residential suburb outside the capital Kiev, and at least three people were wounded, according to officials. The violence, captured in amateur footage taken from surrounding apartment blocks and posted online, occurred in the morning in Brovary. According to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, about 100 people took part in the clashes, some of whom came from another region.
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| Sen. Johnson seeks power to subpoena Obama-era officials in Russia probe investigation Posted: 29 May 2020 06:47 AM PDT  Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joins 'America's Newsroom.'
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| Declassified calls show Flynn discussing sanctions with Russian envoy Posted: 29 May 2020 02:11 PM PDT  Incoming DNI John Ratcliffe released the already declassified call summaries on Friday.
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| Burundi first lady hospitalised in Nairobi: government sources Posted: 29 May 2020 07:28 AM PDT  Burundi's first lady was in hospital in Nairobi on Friday, after being flown in on a late-night medical flight, according to sources at the airport and in the presidency. First lady Denise Bucumi was flown out of Burundi on a Pilatus plane by the AMREF air ambulance service, according to a source at the Melchior Airport in Bujumbura. A high-ranking government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Bucumi had gone to Nairobi "for treatment as she caught the coronavirus".
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| Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley introduce resolution condemning police brutality after George Floyd death Posted: 30 May 2020 06:53 AM PDT  "The murder of George Floyd in my district is not a one-off event," Omar said.
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| Revealed: the worrying links between Huawei, our universities and China Posted: 29 May 2020 11:20 AM PDT  With its cast iron replica of Budapest's Liberty Bridge and its pale-stoned version of Versailles, visitors to Huawei's research centre in Dongguan could be forgiven for thinking they were in Europe. It is a benign – if eccentric – tribute. But other attempts to forge close ties to the Western culture have much more serious implications. The Telegraph can disclose today that the controversial Chinese telecoms giant backed 17 scientific papers with UK universities, about cutting-edge "dual use" technologies – which can have civilian applications but can also be used in military technology. At least 15 of the papers focused on technology that experts claim could be used to communicate with swarms of drones or on highly advanced image recognition software that experts claim could be used for extreme levels of surveillance. All of them involve collaborations between British universities, including at Edinburgh and Exeter, and Chinese universities heavily involved in military research and named as "high risk" by an Australian think tank.
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