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March 16 (Reuters) - Eight people, including at least six Asian women, were shot dead at three day spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area on Tuesday, police said, and man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks has been taken into custody.
Bloomberg: Kamala Harris' search for a running mate now has a shortlist of 3: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Bloomberg: South Korea will build four more nuclear reactors by 2030, and extend the life of 10 older units, as the new government backs atomic power as a key tool to zero out emissions.
(Significant energy policy shift from South Korea)
Reuters: As US authorities scrambled to ramp up the nation's capacity to test for coronavirus last week, at least 100 executives and other New Yorkers of means had easy access to testing, according to 2 sources familiar with a little-known medical service catering to the affluent
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec 3 (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden has asked top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci to continue in his job and serve as Biden's chief medical adviser and on the COVID-19 team after Biden takes office on Jan. 20, Biden said on Thursday.
Reuters: Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, from the central city of Danang after three residents tested positive for the coronavirus at the weekend, the government said on Monday.
Reuters: The measure passed by unanimous consent, reflecting concern in Washington over China's enactment of a security law seen as ending the autonomy that allowed the former British colony to thrive as an international financial center.
Reuters: PFIZER SAYS ITS COVID-19 VACCINE APPEARS TO WORK AGAINST MUTATION FOUND IN UK, SOUTH AFRICA VIRUS VARIANTS IN LAB STUDY
(THIS IS REALLY GOOD NEWS, DESPITE IT BEING IN ALL CAPS AS IT APPEARS ON YOUR RESPECTIVE DOOMSCROLLS)
SEOUL, April 21 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is receiving treatment after undergoing a cardiovascular procedure early this month, Daily NK reported, amid speculation over Kim's health following his absence from a key anniversary event
Reuters: Robert Aaron Long of Woodstock was taken into custody at about 8:30 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday in Crisp County, Georgia, about 150 miles (240 km) south of Atlanta. Investigators...were "very confident" that the same suspect was the gunman in all three shootings.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 20 (Reuters) - Mainland China reported zero locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus for the second straight day, while the daily tally for infections involving travellers arriving in the country surged to a new record.
Reuters: JAPAN GOVT HAS PRIVATELY CONCLUDED TOKYO OLYMPICS WILL HAVE TO BE CANCELLED BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS - THE TIMES, CITING SENIOR RULING COALITION MEMBER
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 12 (Reuters) - China's coronavirus epidemic has passed its peak, its top health commission said on Thursday, as it logged just eight new infections in Hubei province, the first time the epicentre of the outbreak recorded a daily tally of less than 10.
Reuters: "I asked him to stay on in the exact same role as he's had for the past several presidents, and I asked him to be a chief medical adviser for me as well and be part of the COVID team," said Biden.
Reuters: "People are still thinking about seasons. What we all need to get our heads around is this is a new virus and...this one is behaving differently," WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris told a virtual briefing in Geneva.
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely.
In what may be perplexing/upsetting news for BTS fans,
#SouthKorea
's presidential office invited the K-Pop group EXO for a meet and greet with
#US
President Trump and Ivanka Trump for a cocktail reception tonight.
Apparently the Trumps are big fans.
TOKYO, March 3 (Reuters) - Tokyo's contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows it to postpone the Games until the end of the year, Japan's Olympics minister said on Tuesday, amid concern the coronavirus outbreak could force the IOC to cancel them.
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. is prepared to prosecute in the United States the man acquitted by Pakistan's top court of the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday.
Reuters: There are now seven countries outside China reporting over a thousand cases, and three reporting over 7,000, which are Italy, South Korea and Iran.
Otto Warmbier's family speaks out against
#NorthKorea
leader Kim Jong Un following his summit with
#US
President
#Trump
.
Trump said at a presser this week that he doesn't think Kim knew what was going on with Warmbier and that Kim felt badly about it.
COVID-19 action plan:
1. Wash your hands properly and frequently
2. Sneeze into your elbow/sleeve, dont use your hand
3. If you have a fever or cold, don’t travel and don’t do things that put other people in danger
4. Don’t get into fights at supermarkets over toilet paper
By
@GregTorode
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Officers from China's top internal security force - the People's Armed Police – joined Hong Kong police on the frontlines to observe anti-government protests that peaked last year, according to a senior foreign diplomat and an opposition politician.
Reuters: Beijing officials reported on Tuesday 27 new confirmed COVID-19 cases for June 15, taking the cumulative number of infections in the city's current outbreak to 106. That makes it the most serious flare-up in China since February, stoking fears of a second wave.
NYT: Republican Senator John Thune, likely successor to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, is seriously considering retirement after next year and not stand for re-election
Reuters: The virus has now been confirmed in 172 countries and territories, reaching an increasing number of remote and sparsely populated areas, including Bermuda, Iceland and several Caribbean islands.
Reuters: The U.S. Senate passed similar legislation last week, but under congressional rules the bill must return to the Senate and be passed there before being sent to the White House for President Donald Trump to sign into law or veto.
Reuters: Around the globe, billions are adapting to a new reality, with countries such as Italy, Spain and France on lockdown and several South American nations taking similar measures to try to stay ahead of the contagion. Global cases exceeded 325,000 and deaths topped 14,000.
Reuters: CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU SAYS HE IS CONCERNED BY VIOLENCE IN WASHINGTON, MONITORING SITUATION CLOSELY
(This kind of remark is usually reserved for the Middle East, North Korea, HK etc, but here we are today)
Reuters: WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS "THE PRESIDENT IS DOING VERY WELL. HE IS UP AND ABOUT AND ASKING FOR DOCUMENTS TO REVIEW. THE DOCTORS ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS VITAL SIGNS"
Bloomberg: Afghan and Taliban negotiators reached a deal for a 2-week ceasefire in exchange for President Ashraf Ghani’s resignation and the start of talks on setting up a transitional government. But it collapsed when Ghani fled the country, sources say
Reuters: Italy has ordered all major sporting events throughout the country, including top-flight Serie A soccer games, to be played without fans for one month in a bid to curb Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak.
Gao Chengyong admitted to rape and murder of 11 women and girls, youngest of whom was 8. Charges included mutilation of corpses.
While I am not the strongest proponent for the death penalty it's cases like this that leaves me against completely abolishing capital punishment
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Saturday reported no locally transmitted coronavirus infections for the previous day and a small reduction in new cases involving travellers from overseas, as new restrictions on the entry of foreigners kicked in.
@apgalbraith
As someone who is deals with China news coverage, I would like to repeat that IN CHINA THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THAT XI JINPING OR ANY SITTING PRESIDENT GETS CENSORED, EVER.
DO NOT SAY DUMB THINGS LIKE "THIS IS CHINA-LEVEL CENSORSHIP" ABOUT TRUMP GETTING BOOTED FROM TWITTER.
The problem with people who believe they are smart is they think said intelligence allows them to become experts on anything they set their mind to - even in fields they have no expertise or professional training in. Truly intelligent people don't make this mistake.
Latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult battleground states poll:
Harris 48%-Trump 47% overall
Harris 49%-Trump 47% in AZ
Harris 47%-Trump 47% in GA
Harris 53%-Trump 42% in MI
Harris 47%-Trump 45% in NV
Trump 48%-Harris 46% in N. Carolina
Nintendo Switch makes its official debut in China today. There are many gamers in the country who already have one, of course, but easier to convince average consumers to pick one up when they don't have to go overseas or pay for international shipping.
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the U.S. State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel U.S.-Chinese tensions.
Jan 31 (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid, the spokesman for the governing National League for Democracy said on Monday.
Reuters: In other steps to safeguard the U.S. capital, the National Guard was authorized to send up to 15,000 troops to Washington, and tourists were barred from visiting the Washington Monument until Jan. 24.
NYT: Few details about the American, who died on Thursday, were immediately available. The person was around 60 years old, according to the United States Embassy in Beijing.
Reuters: Law enforcement officials did not offer a motive for the shooting rampage and said they did not immediately know if the Asian women were targeted. Also killed in the Cherokee attacks were a white woman and a white man.
WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a U.S. official said.
Based on official data released by relevant authorities, the global mortality rate now stands at 4.94%. Of the 13 countries with more than 10,000 cases, Italy has the highest mortality rate at 11.7%, followed by 9% in Spain and 8.2% in the Netherlands.
TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is considering an economic package worth more than 30 trillion yen ($278 billion)in response to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the Sankei newspaper reported on Thursday.
Reuters:Beijing on Tuesday unveiled new national security laws for Hong Kong that will punish crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison, heralding a more authoritarian era for China’s freest city
Bloomberg: Harris is also looking at the Biden Cabinet for options. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg are being vetted, the people said.
Bloomberg: Democrats cautioned that the search must still be thorough in order to catch any red-flags. Those warnings took on new urgency as old clips emerged of Vance making disparaging comments about childless women, which have come under widespread criticism.
Reuters: U.S. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL HAS OPENED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN'S USE OF WHITE HOUSE FOR CAMPAIGN-RELATED ACTIVITIES TO SEE IF FEDERAL LAW HAS BEEN VIOLATED -CONGRESSMAN
Reuters: Daily NK, a speciality website run mostly by North Korean defectors, cited unidentified sources inside the isolated state saying Kim is recovering at a villa in the Mount Kumgang resort county of Hyangsan on the east coast after getting the procedure on April 12.
Reuters: South Korea's President Moon Jae-in on Thursday pledged 50 trillion won ($39 billion) in emergency financing for small businesses along with other stimulus measures to help shore up its economy, which has been battered by the coronavirus crisis.
@JooriRoh
SHANGHAI, March 10 (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping arrived in Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus outbreak, on Tuesday morning where he is set to inspect epidemic control efforts and visit front line staff such as medical workers, state media reported.
BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - Mainland China reported its first locally transmitted coronavirus infection in three days, although cases involving travellers from overseas continued to dominate the total number of new cases.
Reuters: These people paid a $5,000-a-year membership fee for a medical concierge service in New York City called Sollis Health, which worked with Enzo Clinical Labs Inc to test its members for COVID-19, according to the sources.
BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) - China has asked its state-owned firms to halt purchases of soybeans and pork from the United States, two people familiar with the matter said, after Washington said it would eliminate special U.S. treatment for Hong Kong to punish Beijing.
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting after a person suspected of having COVID-19 returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday
Of the 13 countries with more than 10K cases, Germany has the lowest mortality rate at 1%, followed by Austria at 1.3% and 1.6% in Turkey.
Italy still has the highest mortality rate out of any country with at least 100 confirmed cases.
Others have already said this but how the coronavirus spreads in Korea might provide a clearer picture for health authorities. Hubei/Wuhan’s reporting at the rarly stages turned out to be very inaccurate.
SEOUL, March 25 (Reuters) - South Korea said it would tighten border checks for travellers from the United States by Friday as concerns rise over imported coronavirus cases despite a decline in domestically transmitted infections.
Lee “Fearless” Eui-seok, professional esports player and a member of the Overwatch League’s Dallas Fuel team, was asked...during a livestream what it’s been like for him since moving to Texas this year.
“Being Asian here is terrifying, seriously,” he said
Reuters: North Korea marked the anniversary of the birthday of its founding father and Kim's grandfather, Kim Il Sung, as a national holiday on April 15, but Kim was not seen in attendance.