Life inside ground zero of Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Updated 1355 GMT (2155 HKT) January 22, 2020
The Lunar New Year -- the most important festival in the Chinese calendar -- is just three days away, but in the Chinese city of Wuhan, there are few reasons to celebrate.
A deadly outbreak of the new coronavirus emerged in this city of 11 million people last month. Within weeks, the virus has killed nine people, sickened hundreds and spread as far as the United States.
Wuhan has been on high alert since the number of confirmed infections surged into the hundreds earlier this week.
Bezos hack: UN to address alleged Saudi hacking of Amazon boss's phone
Special rapporteurs to announce further information on Guardian revelations
UN investigators are poised to release a statement about the alleged hacking of Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone after the Guardian revealed details of a forensic analysis that has implicated a WhatsApp account purportedly owned by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.
The astonishing disclosure prompted a Democratic lawmaker in the US to urgently demand more information about the malware that was allegedly used to infiltrate Bezos’s phone in the 2018 hack of the Amazon founder.
Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said in a letter to Bezos that the alleged breach of the billionaire’s phone “appears to be part of a growing trend”, citing reports that Saudi Arabia had acquired cyber-hacking capabilities from Hacking Team, based in Italy, and Israel’s NSO Group.
Trump targets Greta Thunberg in barely coherent tirade at Davos: ‘She beat me out on Time Magazine’
Climate activist should focus on other countries than US, where ‘everything is good’, says presidentChris Baynes
Donald Trump has targeted Greta Thunberg for the second successive day at Davos, bemoaning the climate activist’s criticism of his administration and the fact “she beat me out on Time magazine”.
Speaking at a press conference before departing the World Economic Forum, the American president suggested the 17-year-old Swede “ought to focus on” other countries than the US, which he insisted was “clean and beautiful” and where “everything is good”.
“Our numbers are very good, our environmental numbers. Our water numbers, our numbers on the air are tremendous. We have to do something about other continents and other countries,” he said, despite the US being responsible for more cumulative carbon emissions than any other nation.
Warm welcome for Venezuela opposition leader Guaido
The EU offered a pointedly warm welcome Wednesday to Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who is seeking to broaden international support for elections to be held in his country to vote President Nicolas Maduro out of power.
Guaido is recognised as Venezuela's interim president by the US and around 50 other countries, though not by the European Commission, which describes him instead as the "legitimate" speaker of Venezuela's opposition-run parliament.
Still, the convivial handshake extended by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and meetings with other top officials from the Commission and the European Parliament underlined the bloc's broad support for Guaido.
Greek islanders strike against migrant camps
The islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios are the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis. Islanders have run out of patience, demanding their government empty the overflowing reception camps and return their islands to them.
Residents of the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios went on strike on Wednesday, angry at the overflowing migrant camps.
Under the slogan "we want our islands back, we want our lives back" the islander shut stores and closed public services, as people demonstrated on the streets, waving Greek flags.
DW correspondent Max Zander tweeted that there was a "massive" turnout at the anti-migration policy protest in Mytilini, Lesbos.
Trump impeachment: Senate adopts rules after long debate on trial's first day
The US Senate has adopted ground rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, after nearly 13 hours of rancorous debate on day one.
Democratic prosecutors clashed with Mr Trump's lawyers over the process, while Republicans rejected Democratic demands for more witnesses to be called.
The trial will resume on Wednesday with arguments by the prosecution, to be followed by the defence and questions.
Mr Trump is the third US president to face an impeachment trial.
He is charged with abuse of power and obstructing the congressional impeachment inquiry. He has denied wrongdoing and accused Democrats of trying to unseat him for political reasons.
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