Italy wakes to first day in coronavirus lockdown
By Robert Greenall, Sophie Williams and Yaroslav Lukov
Lucy Anna GrayNew York
By Robert Greenall, Sophie Williams and Yaroslav Lukov
Austria has banned indoor events of more than 100 people and outdoor events of more than 500 people, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer confirmed.
The country has also announced a ban on people arriving from Italy.
"We are putting in place an entry ban for people from Italy to Austria, unless they have a doctor's certificate," chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday.
Austrians in Italy will be allowed to return as long as they agree to a two-week home quarantine.
Other measures announced by the government include stopping university lectures and encouraging companies to let employees work from home.
Shifting guidelines on coronavirus treatment in US could be ‘catastrophic’
Healthcare workers fighting the outbreak are struggling with a dramatic lack of preparedness and a lack of steady guidance
While frontline healthcare workers fighting the US coronavirus outbreak continue to struggle with what they’ve called a dramatic lack of preparedness, ever-shifting guidelines on treatment are raising concerns that America’s response is dangerously inconsistent.
Nurses working amid this outbreak – which continues to see increasing numbers of diagnoses and deaths – maintain that the guidelines keep shifting due to fluid federal mandates and continued staffing and supply shortages.
Of more than 6,500 nurses across 48 states, Washington DC, and the Virgin Islands recently surveyed by National Nurses United (NNU), just 44% said their employers had given them information on novel coronavirus and “how to recognize and respond to possible cases”. A mere 63% of nurses surveyed had access to N95 masks in their divisions, while just 27% had access to powered air purifying respirators.
'Chemically burned at the stake': Inside the execution of a man who killed no one
'A black man was sentenced to death even though the prosecutors agreed he did not personally kill anyone,' Cassandra Stubbs from ACLU saysLucy Anna GrayNew York
Nathaniel Woods was pronounced dead at 9.01pm on Thursday.
He was killed by lethal injection in Alabama, one of 29 American states that still has the death penalty. The 43-year-old was convicted 15 years ago for being involved in the death of three police officers, all of whom were shot by Kerry Spencer.
Officers Carlos Owen, Harley Chisolm and Charles Bennett died at a drug house while serving a misdemeanour domestic assault warrant. Woods was accused of setting up the ambush that led to their deaths in 2004.
Mayoral race becomes a referendum on pesticide ban in French village of Langouët
The mayor of tiny Langouët became a hero to environmentalists across France last year after unilaterally banning pesticides from his village. With his mandate up for grabs on Sunday, the election is being billed as a test for ecological activism in rural communities where farmers remain dependent on weedkillers.
The year is 2020 AD. Gaul is entirely occupied by pesticides. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the farmers who tend the fields surrounding the village.
Should “Asterix and the Organic Laurel Wreath” ever be written, it would take place here in Langouët, a tranquil Breton village not unlike the iconic hideout of Brittany’s most famous comic book hero.
Saudi Crown Prince had been lying low. That's over
By David D. Kirkpatrick
First he ordered the detention of at least four senior members of his own royal family. Two days later he plunged Saudi Arabia into a price war with Russia that sent energy and stock markets around the world into free fall.
For a while, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia had appeared to be living down his reputation for dangerous aggression.
Perhaps chastened by the blowback over his connection with the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the 34-year-old prince had kept a low profile for more than a year.
His party was banned. He faces jail. But Thailand's Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit vows to fight on
Updated 0002 GMT (0802 HKT) March 10, 2020
He's the billionaire scion of Thailand's biggest auto parts manufacturer who could have led a quiet, comfortable life in the upper echelons of Thai society.
Instead, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit is fighting to save his country's democracy, and in doing so has put himself in the crosshairs of the military-led government.
Last week, Future Forward, the pro-democracy political party Thanathorn founded in 2018, and which came third in Thailand's election last year with 6.3 million votes, was banned by a Thai court for violating election laws.
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