'Hero who told the truth': Chinese rage over coronavirus death of whistleblower doctor
Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang’s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger
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by Maxime Lancien
Demands for freedom of speech in the wake of Li Wenliang’s death have been censored by the authorities amid widespread outpouring of anger
Coronavirus outbreak – latest updates
The death of a whistleblowing Chinese doctor who was punished for trying to raise the alarm about coronavirus has sparked an explosion of anger, grief and demands for freedom of speech among ordinary Chinese.
Li Wenliang, 34, died in the early hours of Friday local time after he was infected during the fight against the fight against the outbreak, said Wuhan central hospital, where he worked, in a statement.
Li warned colleagues on social media in late December about a mysterious virus that would become the coronavirus epidemic and was detained by police in Wuhan on 3 January for “spreading false rumours”. He was forced to sign a police document to admit he had breached the law and had “seriously disrupted social order.”Trump ‘apoplectic’ in phone call with Johnson over Huawei decision, report claims
Prime minister’s office refuses to comment further on conversation between two leaders last monthStaff and agencies
Donald Trump was “apoplectic” with Boris Johnson during a phone call to discuss the prime minister's decision to allow Chinese firm Huawei a role in Britain's 5G mobile phone network.
Citing unnamed officials in London and Washington, the Financial Times said the president was livid during the exchange last week after Mr Johnson's government said Huawei could have a limited role in building Britain's 5G mobile network despite warnings from the Trump administration.
The paper said one individual who was briefed on the contents of the call, which took place on Jan. 28, said Mr Trump was “apoplectic”. It cited another who said the call was “very difficult” and the president's tone had taken British officials aback.France's Macron calls on Europe to push international nuclear arms control
The French president has unveiled his nuclear doctrine as part of France's arms strategy after Brexit, calling for international disarmament efforts while reaffirming the strength that nuclear power affords France.
In a much anticipated speech, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday warned that countries within Europe "cannot remain spectators" in any new arms race.
"Europeans must realize collectively that in the absence of a legal framework, they could rapidly face a new race for conventional weapons, even nuclear weapons, on their own soil," Macron said in his speech. He went on to call for a "strategic dialogue" with European partners regarding the role of France as a nuclear power.
More and worse die-offs every year
Australia’s angry summers
Last year was the world’s second hottest, closing the warmest decade on record. Australia’s summer 2019-20 began with unprecedented heat and drought and uncontrollable wildfires across millions of hectares, putting all life in danger. Will this latest warning of environmental catastrophe be heard?by Maxime Lancien
The temperature on the plains of New South Wales on Sunday 13 January 2019 reached 47ºC. News reports showed the red Australian earth cracking and the Darling river drying up. The sky turned orange as dust storms plunged small towns such as Mildura into eerie darkness.
The Murray-Darling river basin has long provided a livelihood to half of Australia’s farmers. Drought has always been a periodic challenge for the vineyards, orchards, pastures and cotton fields that cover a million square kilometres from Victoria to Queensland, an area the size of Egypt. But 2018-19’s extreme heat — which returned towards the end of 2019 — caused an outbreak of blue-green algae; hundreds of thousands of fish were asphyxiated by the deadly foam produced by Dolichospermum and Microcystis cyanobacteria. Local communities blamed the agrifood industry but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in January 2019, ‘I’m concerned today that some might want to play politics with that [crisis]... There’s a drought and this is one of the consequences of drought... my focus on drought has not shifted one inch’.
How drug wars in Ireland led to the murder and dismemberment of a teenage boy
Updated 0614 GMT (1414 HKT) February 7, 2020
Keane Mulready-Woods should have been celebrating his 18th birthday this week. But the Irish teenager's life came to an end last month, in a murder so brutal in nature that it has drawn comparisons with TV show "Narcos."
Ireland's ancient town of Drogheda -- pronounced Draw-head-a -- has become the setting for feuds between drug-dealing gangs that have claimed three lives in grisly tit-for-tat attacks.
A day after Mulready-Woods went missing on a cold Sunday evening, parts of the boy's dismembered body were found in a Puma gym bag in north Dublin, 50 kilometers away, police say. Other body parts were found in a burning car in the capital. Irish media reports say Mulready-Woods' limbs were in the bag, and his severed head, hands and feet in the burning car. His torso is believed to still be missing.
Russia says plane 'almost hit' by anti-aircraft fire in Syria
A passenger plane in Syria was forced to re-route after it was almost hit by the country's missile defence system, Russia's defence ministry says.
According to a statement quoted by Russian media, the plane was about to land in Damascus when Syrian anti-aircraft fire responded to an alleged Israeli attack early on Thursday.
The Airbus 320 then diverted to the Russian airbase of Hmeimim in north-western Syria, the ministry said.
More than 172 people were on board.
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