Wuhan’s silent predator will hit China’s economy
The virus-ravaged city that has merged Motown with Silicon Valley could knock 1% off the country’s GDPByGORDON WATTS
Just like the snaking Yangtze and Han rivers that cut through the city, Wuhan flows straight into the heart of China’s economy.
Last year, GDP or gross domestic product growth jumped 7.8% compared to the national average of 6.1%, topping more than US$240 billion. But the numbers only reveal part of the story behind a sprawling metropolis of more than 10 million people, nearly two million more than New York or London.
At the last count, about 300 of the world’s top 500 companies operated in the city, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, which has so far claimed at least 81 lives and infected nearly 3,000 people across China.
Man behind football exposé revealed as source of Dos Santos leak
Football Leaks founder passed on financial records of Africa’s richest woman, says lawyer
A Portuguese man behind one of the biggest exposés in the history of football has been identified as the source of a leaked cache of financial records about the business empire of Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos.
Lawyers for Rui Pinto, who is awaiting trial in Portugal on charges including alleged hacking and attempted extortion, said in 2018 he passed a non-profit whistleblowing organisation a hard drive containing data relating to Dos Santos’s business empire, which is estimated at $2.2bn.
Germany: Over 500 right-wing extremists suspected in Bundeswehr
The head of Germany's military intelligence service has confirmed hundreds of new investigations into soldiers with extremist right-wing leanings. Germany's elite special forces unit appears to be a particular hotbed.
Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) has said it was investigating 550 Bundeswehr soldiers suspected of right-wing extremism, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday.
Numerous cases of extremism in the German military and among other security forces have been brought to light in recent years, as the government struggles to contain right-wing extremist threats and violence.
Palestinian PM calls on world to boycott Trump peace plan
Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Monday urged international powers to boycott US President Donald Trump's "peace plan" which they see as biased towards Israel.
"This a plan to protect Trump from impeachment and protect (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu from prison. It is not a Middle East peace plan," Shtayyeh told a cabinet meeting.
"This plan gives Israel sovereignty over Palestinian territory," he said.
My grandfather survived four years in Auschwitz. For the rest of his life he was determined not to remain imprisoned by it
Updated 1035 GMT (1835 HKT) January 27, 2020
The number 1088 was amateurishly tattooed on my grandfather's strong, freckled arm.
I saw it when he tucked me in at night, held me when I was sad or when he was tinkering with the circuit boards inside the TV.
I have no siblings, my father lived overseas and my mother worked long hours as a nurse. I was his only grandchild. We were incredibly close.
Liliana Segre, an Italian Holocaust survivor under police protection
As a young girl, she was sent to Auschwitz, but now the death threats she receives reflect a return of the hatred and intolerance that led to the Holocaust.
"Sometimes, when you keep talking about things so much, they end up losing their value."
There is a tone of resignation in Liliana Segre's voice as she sits opposite me in her Milan living room and begins to tell her story. Do not get me wrong, her strength is palpable. She may be 89 years old, but there is a steeliness to her that defies age.
That is, perhaps, unsurprising. Most of us can never truly comprehend the horrors she experienced as a young girl in Auschwitz.
That is, perhaps, unsurprising. Most of us can never truly comprehend the horrors she experienced as a young girl in Auschwitz.
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