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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Coronavirus tsar Mike Pence wipes nose before shaking hands with top doctors at virus press conference - Vice president appointed to lead administration's response to US outbreak
Luxembourg is first country in world to make public transport free — Luxembourg is Europe's richest country, where the car is king. But, on Sunday, it will make public transport free. It will apply to all trams, trains and buses and will be available to tourists as well as residents.
Chinese social-media platform WeChat saw spikes in the terms 'SARS,' 'coronavirus,' and 'shortness of breath,' weeks before the first cases were confirmed, a study suggests
Great Barrier Reef on brink of third major coral bleaching in five years, scientists warn | If ocean temperatures don’t drop in the next two weeks, heat stress could tip reef over into another widespread event - heat stress is already building across the world’s biggest reef system
The first coronavirus case in Australia with no links to China has been confirmed, with as many as 40 people now at risk of exposure to the virus after the infected woman worked at a Gold Coast shopping centre
Friday, February 28, 2020
Thailand uses a combination of flu x hiv medication to treat Coronavirus. Patient goes from positive to negative in 48 hours of administrating medicine when tested for Coronavirus
Kitchen staff at a Japanese Hospital where foreigners are being quarantined write notes to the patients: "We hope you get well soon and quickly return home. This is a very hard time for you, we stand beside you."
Thursday, February 27, 2020
France confirms 20 new coronavirus cases - Of the 20 new cases announced on Thursday, two people are in a serious condition. They had both recently returned from Egypt as part of a tour group.
US Athletes Kneel Down during Israel’s National Anthem, Draw Accusations of ‘Anti-Semitism’ (video). The symbolic act by two athletes was meant as a political protest against the Israeli occupation and apartheid policies in Palestine.
Hong Kong authorities said on Friday they quarantined a pet dog of a coronavirus patient after its nasal and oral samples tested “weak positive” for the virus, though they added they did not yet have evidence that it can be transmitted to pets. The dog did not have any symptoms.
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in history of the universe: Researchers say the blast is the biggest since the Big Bang. It occurred at the center of a galaxy cluster 390 million light years away
The family of an Australian boy who gained global fame in a viral video after he was bullied have turned down a crowdfunded trip to Disneyland and vow to give the money to charity instead
Coronavirus Spreads Faster Outside China, Stoking Global Fears The new disease - COVID-19 - was also detected for the first time in Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Romania and Algeria.
A well-known Chechen blogger has survived an apparent assassination attempt in Poland, in the latest of a series of attacks on dissidents exiled in Europe. A video first posted by Tumso Abdurakhmanov showed him disheveled and breathing hard, standing over the bloodied body of another man.
Italy sealed off entire towns and canceled major events after 400 coronavirus cases and 12 deaths made it the most infected country outside of Asia
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Australian universities are offering cash “grants” to Chinese students to help them get around the coronavirus travel ban — a decision labelled “indefensible” by an education expert.
Parents warned ahead of Greta Thunberg protest | Police are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has "grown so large" it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate. Avon and Somerset Police say they expect thousands of people at the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate
'Red Alert': Anti-Muslim Violence in India Reaching Critical Levels as Homes and Businesses Burn and at Least 24 Dead | Nearly 200 people have been injured during three days of violence in Muslim populated areas of northeast Delhi, with police accused of looking the other way
China’s state insurers have stopped covering pangolin medicines | COVID-19 coronavirus has prompted China to put a temporary ban on trade in wildlife and it is now facing calls for a permanent ban
Archaeologists Have Discovered a Lost Ancient Kingdom in Turkey: A farmer led archaeologists to an ancient stone, which told the tale of a great king defeating King Midas
German Facebook users would want the social media platform to pay them about $8 per month for sharing their contact information, while US users would only seek $3.50, according to a study of how people in various countries value their private information.
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus in China die of both infection and fatigue — Over 3,000 medical workers on the coronavirus frontlines have been infected with the virus, and at least 18 have died.
University of Toronto scientists estimate the number of COVID-19 cases in Iran to be around 18,300, far higher than currently being reported by Iranian authorities
Coronavirus closures reveal vast scale of China’s secretive wildlife farm industry: Peacocks, porcupines and pangolins among species bred on 20,000 farms closed in wake of virus
Not a single woman on the streets, not a single woman at work, not a single girl at school. A day without women. Mexican women will make a curfew on March 9 after series of brutal femicides.
Infected South Korean coronavirus health official is member of secretive religious group linked to hundreds of cases: 'The unnamed South Korean health official is said to be the head of the Infection Preventive Medicine Department in Daegu'
Monday, February 24, 2020
Chinese diplomat to Australia grilled over Uighurs and coronavirus response - Wang Xining stuck to party lines even as ABC panel audience laughed at his claims that Uighurs are voluntarily in ‘training centres’
Humanity poised to set record for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — again: "We've done in a little more than 50 years what the Earth naturally took 10,000 years to do,” one scientist said
Foreign interference in Australia is higher than it has ever been, and “sleeper agents” for foreign powers have lain undetected for years in Australia before being uncovered, the head of Australia’s domestic spy agency has warned.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Trump is pissed at new intelligence reports showing the Kremlin has picked its preferred 2020 candidate: him. Trump railed Friday about new analysis by U.S. intelligence officials indicating Russia is already working to get him reelected. To him, it's just another partisan plot to discredit him.
Two of Finland’s biggest pension funds, with combined assets of $108 billion, are determined to make their portfolios carbon neutral over the next decade and a half, in a race to dodge the fallout of global warming before it’s too late.
Four more cases of Coronavirus confirmed in England, passengers of the Diamond princess originally cleared to fly, later tested positive. Total cases now 13.
A worsening coronavirus outbreak could threaten shortages of about 150 prescription drugs, several of them with no alternatives. China’s role in supplying the ingredients used in medications means that decreased Chinese production capability amid the outbreaks could threaten supplies of the drugs
Colombia was the deadliest place on Earth for environmental activists. It's gotten worse: More than 40 human rights defenders and community leaders have been killed in Colombia since January
Coronavirus: Wuhan to quarantine all cured patients for 14 days after some test positive again. Decision follows several instances in which recovered patients were found to be still carrying the virus and able to infect others
US officials leak details of British plan to replace Trident nuclear warheads before British ministers had announced the plans or informed parliament.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
150K Nature Illustrations Spanning Hundreds of Years Are Now Free Online: Thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, you can easily peruse rad nature drawings, Charles Darwin's personal library, and many other works in the public domain.
Coronavirus: South Korea reports 123 new cases and two more deaths. Authorities place more than 9,000 Shincheonji church members in self-quarantine
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