Fauci warns of disturbing trend as Trump ignores viral surge
Updated 0820 GMT (1620 HKT) June 24, 2020
President Donald Trump's top health advisers say that the coronavirus pandemic has driven America to its knees amid a disturbing surge in cases. But Trump is ignoring the new danger, instead using the worst domestic crisis in decades as a racist punchline.
Political mismanagement of the situation, the glaring lack of a national strategy and the nation's exhausting, inconclusive struggle with the coronavirus was reflected Tuesday in three key developments. Fully half of US states are now seeing rising cases of the disease with the situation especially acute in Texas, Florida and Arizona, which embraced aggressive reopening programs. The European Union, which has been more successful than the US in suppressing Covid-19, warned it might bar visitors from America in what would be a major embarrassment for Trump. And the President persisted with his counter-logical argument that the US is only seeing more cases of the virus because it is doing more testing, leaving the implication that it would be better if rising cases, infections and ultimately deaths were simply ignored.
North Korea suspends plan to increase military pressure on South
Kim Jong-un unexpectedly vetoes the idea to redeploy troops to the border amid rising tensions between the two countries
Kim Jong-un has suspended plans to increase military pressure on South Korea, in a surprise move that comes after weeks of mounting tensions on the peninsula.
The North Korean leader vetoed measures that are thought to have included the redeployment of troops neat the border between the two countries, apparently in retaliation for Seoul’s inability to prevent defector groups from sending propaganda leaflets into the North.
Kim took the decision at a meeting of the ruling party’s central military commission, whose members discussed plans to “bolster” North Korea’s “war deterrent” and “took stock of the prevailing situation”, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday.Republican congressman says Black Lives Matter protesters ‘at war’ with ‘western culture’
Minnesota member echoes white nationalist rhetoric in online attackMichael Brice-Saddler
A Minnesota Congress member said those aligned with Black Lives Matter in protest of police brutality are “at war” with “western culture”, using language which advocacy groups note has long been used to promote white nationalism.
Representative Jim Hagedorn, a Republican, made the comment on Facebook in response to a news article about controversial activist Shaun King, who earlier this week said that murals and statues that depict Jesus as white should be torn down. Numerous Confederate monuments have fallen in recent days, both at the hands of protesters and under orders from local officials.
“The Democrat 'Black Lives Matter' Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture,” Mr Hagedorn wrote on Tuesday.Moscow celebrates delayed 75th anniversary of end of WWII
A military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory of the Nazis has kicked off in Moscow. The spectacular celebration takes place on the eve of a vote that could extend Putin’s rule until 2036.
Russia's delayed military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Soviet Union kicked off in Moscow on Wednesday morning with a patriotic display that some say is meant to lift President Vladimir Putin's lower-than-usual ratings on the eve of a vote that could extend his rule.
Over 14,000 troops, 200 armored vehicles, and 75 aircraft are expected participate in the celebration in Moscow's Red Square. Representatives from 13 other countries will also be present.
Top French historian slams Macron's hardline stance on statues
A leading historian attacked French President Emmanuel Macron's stance on disputed statues linked to the country's colonial past Wednesday, saying he had "hugely confused" history and memory.
Macron all but ignored the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in a major television address last week except to warn that France would not take down statues of controversial historical figures.
"The Republic will not wipe away any trace or any name from its history... but lucidly look at our history and our memory together," the president said.
Yemen coronavirus cases expected to surge as UN aid dries up
UN warns the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Yemen could surpass that from five years of devastating war.by Abubakr Al-Shamahi
It was inevitable that the global coronavirus pandemic would arrive in Yemen and cross paths with the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Now that it has, the impact is already showing.
Laila Abdulrab has a front-line seat. A humanitarian aid worker, she has worked for the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, since 2011. Despite the mass graves being dug in Yemen's major cities as probable COVID-19 cases increase rapidly, she has continued working, aiding some of Yemen's most vulnerable.
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