São Paulo governor: 'We're fighting two viruses'
João Doria is the governor of São Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest state. He was once an ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. But the two men have clashed over how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday it was announced that 615 people had died of Covid-19 in Brazil in 24 hours - the highest death toll for a single day anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
Doria has imposed a state-wide quarantine to slow the virus; Bolsonaro wants only the most vulnerable to stay at home and is keen for people to return to work.
'Promiscuous treatment of nature' will lead to more pandemics – scientists
Habitat destruction forces wildlife into human environments, where new diseases flourish
Humanity’s “promiscuous treatment of nature” needs to change or there will be more deadly pandemics such as Covid-19, warn scientists who have analysed the link between viruses, wildlife and habitat destruction.
Deforestation and other forms of land conversion are driving exotic species out of their evolutionary niches and into manmade environments, where they interact and breed new strains of disease, the experts say.
Trump vows to 'terminate' Obamacare despite warnings from allies
Donald Trump has said that he will continue trying to revoke all of the Affordable Care Act, even as some in his administration, including attorney general William Barr, have privately argued that parts of the law should be preserved amid a pandemic.
“We want to terminate health care under Obamacare,” Mr Trump told reporters on Wednesday, the last day for his administration to change its position in a Supreme Court case challenging the law. “Obamacare, we run it really well ... But running it great, it's still lousy health care.”
While the president has said he will preserve some of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) most popular provisions, including guaranteed coverage for pre-existing medical conditions, he has not offered a plan to do so, and his administration's legal position seeks to end all parts of the law, including those provisions.
Germany's Maas condemns anti-lockdown protesters' attack on journalists
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Thursday condemned an attack on the camera crew of Germany's public service broadcaster ARD.
In an illegal protest in Berlin against the measures imposed to spread coronavirus on Wednesday evening, two members of a television crew were injured.
"Those who attack journalists also attack our democracy," Maas wrote on Twitter.
Who is Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq's new prime minister?
Al-Kadhimi is viewed as pragmatic as well as having good relations with main players across Iraqi political spectrum.
Iraq's new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office after the country's parliament approved a new government on Wednesday following nearly six months of political wrangling.
The parliament approved 15 ministers out of a prospective 22-seat cabinet in a vote of confidence. Five candidates were rejected while voting on two ministers was postponed, leaving seven ministries still empty, including the key oil and foreign affairs positions.
Cruise passengers have gone home, but the crews that looked after them are still stuck at sea
Most cruise passengers have made their way back home, and the vast ships that once ferried them from port to port are moored up or back on the water, relocating for the next stage in their journeys.
But what about the crews that kept these gigantic vessels going, and looked after guests as panic over the coronavirus swept across the oceans?
For many of those working in the cruise industry, the nightmare of being aboard a ship that had carried people with coronavirus has continued -- sometimes without an end in sight.
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