Coronavirus: Passengers leave Diamond Princess amid criticism of Japan
Hundreds of passengers who tested negative for the new coronavirus have begun leaving a quarantined cruise ship in Japan amid heavy criticism over the country's handling of the outbreak.
One Japanese health expert who visited the Diamond Princess at the port in Yokohama said the situation on board was "completely chaotic".
US officials said moves to contain the virus "may not have been sufficient".
Passengers have described the difficult quarantine situation on the vessel.
At least 542 passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess have so far been infected by the Covid-19 virus - the biggest cluster outside mainland China.
China to expel WSJ journalists over 'malicious’ column
Three journalists told to leave within five days after paper declined to apologise for opinion pieceLily Kuo and agencies
China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) after the newspaper declined to apologise for a column that called China the “real sick man of Asia”, the foreign ministry has said.
Spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily briefing on Wednesday that Beijing made several representations to the paper over the column, which China criticised as racist and denigrating its efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic, but that it had failed to apologise or investigate those responsible.
“The Chinese people do not welcome media that publish racist statements and maliciously attacks China,” Geng said.
Iran's moderates fear backlash in crucial election as supreme leader Khameini urges voters to 'foil evil American intentions'
After US killing of General Soleimani and collapse of nuclear deal, Iran's moderates fear a backlash at the ballot box in this week's key parliamentary election, writes Kim Sengupta in Tehran
Iran's upcoming election will “foil many of the evil intentions Americans and Zionists have in mind against the country”, its supreme leader has said, as campaigning stepped up in the final days before the polls.
“They aim to sow discord between the Islamic establishment and the people. They will not succeed,” Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khameini declared in a rare public speech on Tuesday, calling on the public to turn out and vote.
“As in the 11 February rallies and the funeral reception of Martyr Soleimani, enemies will not achieve their goals when people go to vote, which is a religious duty and a revolutionary duty,” he said.
No water, toilets or electricity: Life in Spain’s shameful shanty town
EL PAÍS visits a migrant workers’ camp in Huelva province, described by UN expert Philip Alston as having among the worst conditions in the world
No one in the camp knew who the white-haired Australian in the leather shoes was. Foreigners do not tend to bring good news and they are viewed with suspicion in the shanty town. They quickly surrounded him. The visitor was Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He arrived two weeks ago at this migrant workers’ camp in Lepe, in the southern Spanish province of Huelva, to find out how people in 21st-century Spain can live without water, electricity or a toilet.
Alston, without letting go of his red notebook, sat down on a cable reel under the only pine tree in the makeshift settlement and listened to the concerns of the residents, all of whom are Sub-Saharan workers living in precarious conditions. His friendly attitude never wavered, he didn’t frown or ask too many questions, but after his visit, he said: “They live like animals. Their conditions are among the worst that I have seen in any part of the world.”
Uganda army fights voracious desert locusts
Under a warm morning sun scores of weary soldiers stare as millions of yellow locusts rise into the northern Ugandan sky, despite hours spent spraying vegetation with chemicals in an attempt to kill them.
From the tops of shea trees, fields of pea plants and tall grass savanna, the insects rise in a hypnotic murmuration, disappearing quickly to wreak devastation elsewhere.
The soldiers and agricultural officers will now have to hunt the elusive fast-moving swarms -- a sign of the challenge facing nine east African countries now battling huge swarms of hungry desert locusts.
The Rod Blagojevich scandal and Trump’s commutation of his sentence, explained
Why the former Illinois governor is in prison — and why Trump just granted him clemency.
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President Donald Trump commuted the remainder of the sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) on corruption charges, he announced Tuesday — meaning Blagojevich, who has been in prison for nearly eight years, will be freed.
Blagojevich was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges related to his attempts to essentially sell the Senate seat Barack Obama left open when he won the presidential election in 2008. Blagojevich was also convicted of trying to extort a children’s hospital CEO and a racetrack executive for campaign contributions in exchange for policy changes, and of making false statements to the FBI.
It may seem odd that Trump helped out a corrupt Democrat. But Blagojevich had one major thing going for him: After his ouster from the governorship but before his trials, he appeared as a contestant on the Trump-hosted reality show The Celebrity Apprentice.
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