South Africa has the continent's highest Covid-19 cases. Now it has another pandemic on its hands
Updated 0943 GMT (1743 HKT) June 19, 2020
Early on Sunday morning, the mutilated body of a 42-year-old woman was found in Eersterust, a middle-class township in Pretoria, South Africa.
Two days earlier, residents in the Soweto township of Johannesburg discovered the body of another young woman under a tree. And just over a week ago, a heavily pregnant 28-year-old was found hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Johannesburg.
The three women were among the latest victims in a surge of violence against women in South Africa which the country's president has described as a "pandemic.
China charges two detained Canadians with alleged espionage
Spying charges against former diplomat and businessman are seen as retaliation for Canadian arrest of Chinese telco chief
Chinese prosecutors have charged two detained Canadians with alleged espionage, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing.
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were arrested in late 2018 on state security charges, after Canadian authorities arrested Huawei Technologies Co’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver on a US warrant.
In December, China’s foreign ministry said it had ended an investigation into the two, and the case had been turned over to prosecutors.Every part of environment at risk after Brexit, green groups warn
Air pollution enforcement and chemical regulations could be undermined after UK leaves EU, say campaignersSamuel Lovett
Environmental protections in the UK are likely to be weakened once the post-Brexit transition period comes to an end, green groups have warned.
Greener UK, a coalition of 13 major environmental organisations, has raised concern that enforcement around air pollution targets and chemical regulations could be undermined after the UK diverges from the European Union’s standards as of 31 December.
This could leave all areas of the UK environment, from air and water quality to agriculture and fishing, vulnerable to weaker protections from 2021, according to Greener UK’s latest “risk tracker” analysis.
YouTuber Laranzo Dacres highlights the experience of being black in Japan
BY PATRICK ST. MICHEL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Laranzo Dacres thinks it’s fascinating how many people across Japan — and all of Asia, for that matter — have never met a black person in real life before.
“I interviewed this lady, a woman in her 70s, and I was the first black man she met,” he tells The Japan Times. “That was crazy.
“What they see instead is through (Japanese) media, and the message portrayed is largely negative, unfortunately. That changes the way they view us, that’s a problem.”
Man charged with murder after fatal police shooting in Massey, Auckland
19 Jun, 2020
A 24-year-old man has been charged with murder following the fatal shooting of a police officer in the Auckland suburb of Massey.
The man has been arrested and charged with multiple serious offences including murder, attempted murder and dangerous driving causing injury.
He will appear in the Waitākere District Court on Saturday.
Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds
Italian scientists say sewage water from two cities contained coronavirus traces in December, long before the country's first confirmed cases.
The National Institute of Health (ISS) said water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December.
It adds to evidence from other countries that the virus may have been circulating much earlier than thought.
Chinese officials confirmed the first cases at the end of December. Italy's first case was in mid-February.
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