Saudi Arabia bans foreign pilgrims as Japan plans to close schools
Countries around world scramble to halt spread of virus that has so far killed 3,000 peopleCoronavirus – latest updates
Saudi Arabia has taken the unprecedented step of banning foreign pilgrims from entering the country five months before the annual hajj pilgrimages, while Japan will close its schools next week as countries around the world scramble to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
So far, the virus has killed nearly 3,000 people and infected more than 82,000, prompting warnings that the world is fast approaching a “tipping point”.
Saudi Arabia announced the ban on Thursday after 240 cases were confirmed around the Middle East, most of them in Iran. Authorities in Riyadh said the ban was temporary, but did not say how long it might last. The country has yet to report a case of the virus.‘Horrific’: Dancing Nazis and concentration camp prisoners feature in Spanish carnival parade
Israeli embassy in Spain says European countries should ‘actively combat antisemitism’Rory Sullivan
A carnival parade “commemorating” the Holocaust was condemned as “vile and disgusting” after performers dressed as Nazi officers danced through a Spanish town.
The town of Campo de Criptana, in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha, held the carnival on Monday.
Footage shows one group dressed as Nazi officers, dancing in front of a float containing a menorah placed between two crematorium chimneys.
WhatsApp security flaw: Over 60,000 groups still accessible online
A DW exclusive investigation shows thousands of links to private WhatsApp groups can still be easily found online, despite public outrage which led the company to change its stance and remove them from Google.
WhatsApp links that lead to closed groups can be found with a simple Google search — a major security flaw revealed by DW last week. Following social media outrage, the links were removed from Google’s search results.
Despite the removal, however, publicly-available internet archives are still storing the information, as security researcher Lav Kumar has found out. He gathered and organized over 60,000 unique links, which can still be found on multiple websites.
Greek islanders assail riot police in protests over migrant camps
Greece’s government hoped to defuse tensions after protests over plans for new migrant camps on two of its islands Wednesday turned into violent clashes between police and local residents, some armed with Molotov cocktails and shotguns.
Hundreds of residents attacked police officers guarding the sites of the future detention camps on the islands of Lesbos and Chios. A large crowd later laid siege for hours to a Lesbos army camp where riot-control squads were billeted.
Dozens of police officers were injured during the unrest, and the Greek government’s spokesman said many of the riot police deployed to the islands this week would be pulled out.
'We lost a brother': Hindu, Muslim families in Delhi share grief
Interfaith solidarity on display as people mourn the loss of their kin as death toll in Delhi violence rises to 34.
by Bilal Kuchay
Saddar-Ud-Din had been waiting for his son's body at the Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital since Monday evening. His 32-year-old son Mohammad Furqan was killed by Hindu mob in the Kardam Puri area of northeast New Delhi.
He was among dozens of people who waited on Wednesday outside the mortuary at the GTB hospital to receive the bodies of their relatives.
Coronavirus: The ‘propaganda push’ in China
As China battles coronavirus, medics treating people on the front line are being hailed as heroes.
For the first country dealing with this new, potentially fatal, disease, it was always going to be tough.
Chinese doctors and nurses have been putting their lives as risk. And the BBC’s Stephen McDonell says they’re now also key to the government’s “propaganda push”.
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