Life in the Washington city at the center of America's coronavirus outbreak
In Kirkland, where a nursing home has faced a series of cases, groceries are selling out with residents on high alert
As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus balloons across Washington state, residents in Kirkland are navigating daily life in a city at the center of the outbreak. They’re cutting back on their time spent in public spaces, stocking up on food and disinfectants and being diligent about hand washing.
The city, just east of Seattle, landed on the frontlines after a resident and staff member at a local nursing home tested positive for the virus last weekend. Since then, many more cases have been confirmed and seven residents have died after contracting the virus.
“At this point, we assume that if someone is in that facility, they likely have been affected or are at high risk for infection and they’re being managed as if they are,” Dr Jeff Duchin, the officer for public health in Seattle and King county, said during a press conference on Wednesday.
Was your tablet made in one of China’s coercive labour factories?
It’s no secret that Uighurs and Kazakhs are regularly taken from camps, families and schools and made to work in factories in inner China, Dake Kang and Yanan Wang report
In a lively Muslim quarter of Nanchang city, a sprawling Chinese factory turns out computer screens, cameras and fingerprint scanners for a supplier to international tech giants such as Apple and Lenovo. Throughout the neighbourhood, women in headscarves stroll through the streets, and Arabic signs advertise halal supermarkets and noodle shops.
Yet the mostly Muslim ethnic Uighurs who labour in the factory are isolated within a walled compound that is fortified with security cameras and guards at the entrance. Their forays out are limited to rare chaperoned trips, they are not allowed to worship or cover their heads, and they must attend special classes in the evenings, according to former and current workers and shopkeepers in the area.
Germany underestimated far-right terror for 'too long'
The threat of far-right terror in Germany has not been taken seriously, the head of Germany's parliament told lawmakers in the wake of the Hanau attacks. Wolfgang Schäuble said the violence did not occur in a vacuum.
Germany must admit that it underestimated the threat of far-right terror for too long, the president of the Bundestag told lawmakers on Thursday.
The country must do more to smash far-right networks, while also addressing the problem of Islamophobia in society, Wolfgang Schäuble told Germany's lower legislature.
ICC approves investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in Afghanistan
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday ruled that an investigation into alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan by the Taliban, Afghan military and U.S. forces may proceed.
The decision, which comes days after the United States agreed to pull its troops from the long-running conflict, overturns a lower court decision and opens the way for prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to launch a full investigation, despite U.S. government opposition.
"The Appeals chamber considers it appropriate to...authorise the investigation," said presiding Judge Piotr Hofmanski, noting that Bensouda's preliminary examination had found reasonable grounds to believe war crimes were committed in Afghanistan and that the court has jurisdiction.
A black female-owned company was flooded with hate speech and 1-star reviews after it was featured in a Target commercial
Updated 1024 GMT (1824 HKT) March 5, 2020
A black female-owned feminine hygiene company was bombarded with negative reviews and online abuse after it was featured in a Target commercial, but its founder says the experience has "turned out to be a really beautiful thing."
The ad showcases The Honey Pot Company and has been running since early February, but it got thousands of one- and two-star reviews over the weekend from people complaining it was racist.
In the commercial, founder and CEO Beatrice Dixon says, "The reason why it's so important for The Honey Pot to do well is so the next black girl that comes up with a great idea -- she can have a better opportunity."
Turkey is Learning Why NATO Membership Matters
Since the botched coup attempt of July 2016, a widespread skepticism of the U.S. has pushed Turkish policy makers to conceptualize a world order where Ankara would carve out a sizeable degree of strategic autonomy from the West—despite Turkey’s membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This line of thinking has led to a burgeoning relationship with Russia, crowned by the purchase of the S-400 missile-defense system.
But the escalating conflict over Idlib, where Turkey is seeking to protect its zone of influence against the advance of the Russian-backed Syrian army, has put the feasibility of this vision to the severest of tests.
The hard clash with reality came with the shocking loss of 34 Turkish soldiers to a joint attack by a Syrian and Russian squadron. Ankara’s reaction has been to seek the political solidarity of its NATO allies. A few hours after this incident, Turkey called for consultations under the Article 4 of the treaty. Timely Western support was important for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of his meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin, to discuss the fate of Idlib.
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