Vietnam to evacuate 80,000 tourists from Da Nang after three residents contract Covid-19
Helen Regan and Andy Nguyen, CNN • Updated 27th July 2020
Revealed: new evidence links Brazil meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation
New evidence appears to connect JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, to cattle supplied from a farm in the Brazilian Amazon which is under sanction for illegal deforestation.
This is the fifth time in a year that allegations have surfaced connecting the company to Amazon farmers linked with illegal deforestation.
Brazilian beef companies have repeatedly claimed that the biggest challenge to keeping deforestation out of their supply chains is the “indirect suppliers” – farms where cattle are birthed, or which sell to farms where cattle are fattened, which then sell on to other farms or to slaughterhouses. JBS and other major beef firms Minerva and Marfrig all say that although they closely monitor their direct suppliers – the farms that supply slaughterhouses directly – they cannot be sure that there is no deforestation further up the supply chain because they cannot monitor indirect suppliers.
Coronavirus: Wuhan officials tried to ‘cover-up’ truth about disease, says expert
Officials in Wuhan removed “crucial evidence” from a seafood market thought to be the centre of the Covid-19 pandemic, a leading microbiologist has claimed.
Professor Kwok-Yung Yuen, whose team identified the SARS virus in 2003, said he suspects that authorities deliberately attempted to “cover up” the source of the outbreak that has now infected more than 16 million people around the world and claimed 694,000 lives.
In an interview with the BBC’s Panorama: China’s Coronavirus Cover-Up programme, to be broadcast on Monday evening, Prof Yuen, of Hong Kong University, said Huanan Seafood Market had been disinfected before a team of scientists was allowed to investigate the site.
Virus-hit Iran warns against weddings and funerals
Tehran on Monday warned Iranians against holding wedding and funeral gatherings as the country's novel coronavirus outbreak showed no signs of abating, claiming another 212 lives.
"Despite repeated calls to not hold weddings and mourning ceremonies, reports from across the country still indicate they are taking place," said health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.
"The presence of people at these overcrowded events increases the risk of mass infection," she added, in remarks aired on state television.
Qatar announces plan to bid for 2032 Olympic Games
Qatar has expressed interest in bidding to host the 2032 Olympic Games, in what would be the first time a Middle Eastern nation organises the world's biggest sporting event.
The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) on Monday announced it formally submitted its request to join the non-committal "continuous dialogue" to host an edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as early as 12 years from now.
Qatar delivered the request via a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Black Lives Matter: Arkansas senator describes slavery as 'necessary evil'
A senator for the state of Arkansas has described slavery as a "necessary evil" on which the American nation was built.
In a local newspaper interview, Republican Tom Cotton said he rejected the idea that the US was a systemically racist country to its core.
He is introducing legislation to ban federal funds for a project by the New York Times newspaper, aimed at revising the historical view of slavery.
The project's founder expressed outrage at the remarks.
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