China backs virus inquiry 'after pandemic'
US president praises ‘great people’ at demonstration in New York
Tom Embury-Dennis
Hundreds of Central Asian migrants have been stranded at Russian-Kazakh border crossings for several days, trying to return home after their hopes of working in Russia were dashed by the coronavirus pandemic.
They are among thousands of people -- desperate for work -- who are unable to return home to Central Asia where thousands of more would-be migrant workers are hoping to leave their hopeless situations and go to Russia.
Most of the migrants arrived at the Kazakh border in early May, assuming that Kazakhstan would reopen its frontiers on May 11 with the end of the state of emergency that Nur-Sultan imposed two months ago.
by Sandrine Baccaro & Philippe Descamps
Afew hours before resigning on 15 January, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a cheque for 127bn roubles ($1.7bn), allowing construction to start on the first of three Lider-class icebreakers. At 200m long and 50m wide, with a 120MW nuclear propulsion unit, it will be the largest ever built and twice as effective as any of Russia’s five other nuclear icebreakers currently in service, all built in St Petersburg and based in Murmansk. By 2027, when the first Lider-class vessel is due to be delivered, state-owned operator Rosatomflot will have fitted out three other heavy nuclear icebreakers capable of operating year-round in the Arctic and opening channels in the thickest sea ice (Project 22220). Russia is asserting its maritime presence once more, focusing on the development of the Northern Sea Route or Sevmorput (from Severny morskoy put), a vital national transport link during the Soviet era that could have major international importance in the future.
The annual World Health Assembly is an important, but usually quite dry event. Not this year.
The Covid-19 pandemic is taking centre stage and the event is likely to host a strong war of words between China and the US about how this health emergency has unfolded - with the World Health Organization stuck in the middle of a bigger geopolitical fight between the superpowers.
The EU-led call for an investigation into the international response - and to find the animal source of Covid-19 - has been deliberately worded without mentioning China, where the virus first emerged.
'Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us': locked-down Rio faces deadly raids
Covid-19 quarantine has not stopped police from storming favelas, with 13 killed in the latest operation
Mon 18 May 2020 08.01 BST
Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals wearing a face mask she hoped would keep her alive.
It had been two days since she had heard from her son Allyson, a 20-year-old drug trafficker whose job made social isolation impossible.
Nascimento knew the risks of Covid-19 well: four days earlier it had killed a friend and fellow security guard at the hospital. More than half of her co-workers had been infected.
Coronavirus: Right-wing anti-lockdown protest hailed by Trump featured disturbing ‘hang Fauci’ sign
Tom Embury-Dennis
A disturbing sign calling for the hanging of the White House’s top infectious diseases expert featured at a rally repeatedly praised by Donald Trump.
The protest in New York on Thursday against coronavirus lockdown measures made headlines when a local television news reporter received sustained abuse from demonstrators there.
The reporter, Kevin Vesey, posted footage of the incident on Twitter, which was shared thousands of times and eventually by the US president himself, who retweeted it multiple times.
Stranded In Russia With No Money, Desperate Central Asian Migrants Face Tough Choices
Hundreds of Central Asian migrants have been stranded at Russian-Kazakh border crossings for several days, trying to return home after their hopes of working in Russia were dashed by the coronavirus pandemic.
They are among thousands of people -- desperate for work -- who are unable to return home to Central Asia where thousands of more would-be migrant workers are hoping to leave their hopeless situations and go to Russia.
Most of the migrants arrived at the Kazakh border in early May, assuming that Kazakhstan would reopen its frontiers on May 11 with the end of the state of emergency that Nur-Sultan imposed two months ago.
The era of the icebreaker
Icebreakers are crucial to developing Arctic trade routes being opened up by global warming. Russia is expanding its nuclear fleet, China invites tenders for its own and neighbours vie to control passage.by Sandrine Baccaro & Philippe Descamps
Afew hours before resigning on 15 January, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a cheque for 127bn roubles ($1.7bn), allowing construction to start on the first of three Lider-class icebreakers. At 200m long and 50m wide, with a 120MW nuclear propulsion unit, it will be the largest ever built and twice as effective as any of Russia’s five other nuclear icebreakers currently in service, all built in St Petersburg and based in Murmansk. By 2027, when the first Lider-class vessel is due to be delivered, state-owned operator Rosatomflot will have fitted out three other heavy nuclear icebreakers capable of operating year-round in the Arctic and opening channels in the thickest sea ice (Project 22220). Russia is asserting its maritime presence once more, focusing on the development of the Northern Sea Route or Sevmorput (from Severny morskoy put), a vital national transport link during the Soviet era that could have major international importance in the future.
Two Pakistani women murdered in so-called honor killing after a leaked video circulates online
Updated 1158 GMT (1958 HKT) May 18, 2020
The cousins, aged 22 and 24, were shot and buried on May 14 in a remote village in Pakistan's North Waziristan province, according to police officer Muhammad Nawaz Khan.
Khan said the father of one of the victims and the other victim's brother were arrested Sunday and confessed to killing the women.
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