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Friday, January 31, 2020
After a racism debate in Davos on the invisibility of African climate activists, Greta Thunberg held a press conference Friday with fellow eco warriors from Kenya, Uganda and South Africa to stress the importance of their voices
Members of the European Parliament have voted in favour of introducing a single universal charging method for mobile phones, which Apple had argued against.
German far-right AfD party leader loses political immunity in tax evasion case: German lawmakers have stripped AfD party leader Alexander Gauland of parliamentary immunity, allowing tax evasion investigations against him to proceed. Prosecutors raided the politician's addresses
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Trump told Bolton, in August 2019, that the hold placed on the military aid to Ukraine should continue until Ukraine officials announced investigations into Trump’s political opponents Joe Biden and his son.
A former congressman allegedly linked to Giuliani’s shadow campaign to oust America’s then-ambassador to Ukraine appears on video, obtained by ABC News, meeting with Trump.
Six indigenous people have been killed and other 10 kidnapped after scores of armed men raided an isolated Nicaraguan nature reserve in an attack linked to raging land disputes. About 80 attackers stormed a Mayangna commune about 310 miles north of capital Managua
China accused of cremating bodies in secret as coronavirus patient numbers spike. The sources confirmed “many dead bodies” were sent directly from hospitals to the cremation centres “without properly identifying these patients”.
Scientists share the highest-resolution images of the sun's surface yet to be captured. Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured the images. The broke appearance of roiling plasma on the surface of the sun resemble a collection of cell-like panels. Each of the panels is roughly the size of Texas.
Leaked report shows United Nations suffered hack — Sophisticated hackers infiltrated U.N. networks in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation that top officials at the world body kept largely quiet. The hackers’ identity and the extent of the data they obtained are not known.
Trade unions in Hong Kong, including hospital and rail workers, are threatening to go on strike unless the government closes the border with mainland China
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Lungs 'magically' heal damage from smoking — Surprise findings, published in Nature, show the few cells in your lungs that escape cancerous mutations caused by smoking can repair the lungs - but only if you stop, say scientists. Researchers still need to assess how much of the lungs are repaired.
In response to the coronavirus, some Chinese cities and villages are taking it upon themselves to seal off their communities — in some cases blocking roads with boulders, tractors and dug-up asphalt.
Environmental activist Homero Gomez, who fought to protect the famed monarch butterfly, has been found dead in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, a local authority said, two weeks after he disappeared
Jack Ma, Alibaba founder and China's richest man, has donated 100 million yuan ($14.4 million) through his foundation to help find a vaccine for the Wuhan coronavirus.
Buried in Trump-Netanyahu Deal Is Effort to 'Torpedo' ICC War Crimes Probe | The plan announced Tuesday by the White House demands Palestinians "dismiss all pending actions" before the International Criminal Court.
'This Is Not a Peace Plan, It Is a War Plan': Trump-Netanyahu Deal Decried as Shameful Attack on Palestinian Rights - "Any attempt to address the Israeli-Palestinian issue that does not begin and end with the full acknowledgment of the Palestinian right to self-determination, freedom, justice,
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Wuhan coronavirus cases inside China have already overtaken 2003 SARS outbreak inside of mainland China, as the virus was confirmed to have spread to every province in the country.
France moves to ban mass live-shredding of male chicks - France has said it will ban the controversial but widespread practices of live-shredding male chicks and castrating piglets without anaesthesia, in a move cautiously welcomed by animal welfare activists.
Pentagon says 50 service members suffered traumatic brain injuries following Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack. Increasing numbers of service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in attack has become controversy because of Trump's recent comments the injuries were "headaches" and "not serious."
UK man found dead in ICE custody in Florida | A British man has died in Florida while in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency confirmed to the BBC.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Climate change, inequality 'deliberately perpetuated' to benefit the rich: NZ Green Party co-leader | "We, politicians, have supported the wealthiest few to get wealthier at everyone else's expense, to build walls of poverty and disenfranchisement and call them opportunities."
The Spitzer Space Telescope will be shut down this week after 16 years of service. But unlike Hubble, which will burn up in our atmosphere after it's eventually put down, Spitzer will sail past Earth in about 50 years before drifting off into space for eternity.
The Gates Foundation is spending $10 million to fight the coronavirus outbreak in China and Africa. Bill Gates has warned about a pandemic for years.
Hundreds of Amazon employees put jobs at risk by criticizing firm’s climate change policy | “By ending our contracts with oil and gas companies, we can show the world we put people over profits and be a leader against climate change.”
NPR reporter Michele Kelemen was notified that she was being removed from the press pool covering Mike Pompeo's upcoming trip to the UK, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan — just a few days after Pompeo responded angrily to an interviewer from NPR
Honk Kong University head Gabriel Leung announces during live press conference there are an estimated 25,000 confirmed cases in Wuhan and over 43,000 infected.
Former Ambassador To Ukraine Calls Out Pompeo For Callous Dismissal Of Nation: “In the contest between democracies and autocracies, the contest between freedom and unfreedom, Ukraine is the front line," warned Bill Taylor.
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Huge amounts of a super-potent greenhouse gas have been leaking into the atmosphere — but scientists don’t know where they’re coming from: Global emissions of HFC-23 are at an all time high, according to research published this week.
President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to unpublished manuscript by former adviser, John R. Bolton.
Poorer UK areas that backed Tories face fresh funding cuts as cash switched to wealthy southern regions - Poorer areas that delivered Boris Johnson’s election triumph are facing fresh cuts to local services – as funds are switched to wealthy Southern shires instead.
Scientist who simulated the global impact of a coronavirus outbreak says ‘the cat’s already out of the bag’ and calls China’s efforts to contain the disease ‘unlikely to be effective’
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Australian government adviser urges threatened species overhaul after bushfires: Helene Marsh backs calls for the creation of national scientific monitoring system to help protect wildlife
Iran: New ID card rule highlights plight of Baha'i: Baha'is are unable to legally register with the Iranian state because an "other religions" option has been removed from the identity card application. Their faith forbids them to lie about their affiliation
China coronavirus: Beijing confirms use of anti-HIV drugs at some hospitals - Three Beijing hospitals have started treating patients with the anti-HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir
Wuhan coronavirus death toll rises to 54 as healthcare workers say medical supplies are running out Over 1,700 confirmed cases have been reported across the country.
Study says activism and civil disobedience help communicate the science of climate change | "For decades, it has been a political, social and economic issue, and the inaction was quite depressing. The climate protests have given us hope, that this wave of public opinion is finally enough"
Unprecedented swarms of locusts sweeping through East Africa. Size of infestation 'far beyond the norm'. UN calls for international help to 'avert threats to food security'
Friday, January 24, 2020
Four "Generations" of Spread Seen with Virus in China, Alarming Experts - Emerging data on the new virus circulating in China adds to evidence there is sustained human-to-human transmission in the city of Wuhan, and that a single case was able to ignite a chain of other infections.
Calls for global ban on wild animal markets amid coronavirus outbreak - Experts say wildlife sold for human consumption raises risk of new epidemics
Puerto Rican protesters are so mad at their governor they pushed a guillotine through the streets — Angry about bungled responses to natural disasters, Puerto Ricans hit the streets, guillotine in tow, to demand Gov. Vásquez step down and even jail time for Vásquez and top government officials.
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