Britain is the worst-hit country outside of the US and Brazil. But it STILL won't wear masks
Updated 1041 GMT (1841 HKT) July 12, 2020
Walk into any busy store in England or board a train on London's cramped underground system and you will see dozens of people unmasked. And you can forget about face coverings at recently reopened pubs... that's about as likely as a free pint of beer.
This despite the UK being one of the world's worst-hit countries by coronavirus -- it stands third behind Brazil and the United States -- with almost 45,000 fatalities.
And apart from catastrophic death tolls, the three countries at the top of the pandemic chart are those in which people resist wearing masks.
You could end up in jail, US warns its citizens in China
Americans told to be very cautious following the imposition of the national security law in Hong Kong
The US has warned its citizens in China to “exercise increased caution” because of a heightened risk of arbitrary detention and exit bans that prevent foreign citizens leaving the country.
Citizens could face prolonged spells in jail, without US consular support, or access to details of any alleged crime, the state department said. The warning, sent in an email to US citizens in China, comes after Beijing passed a national security law for Hong Kong, with the legislation drafted to cover people “from outside [Hong Kong]”, including non-residents.
Lawyers and activists have warned China could use this assertion of extra-territorial jurisdiction – the legislation could theoretically be used to bring charges against any person from any country – to mute critics around the world. The state department did not specify what prompted the alert, but it did warn that criticism of the Chinese government, even in private communications, could be used against foreign citizens.
Massive Income LossLeft Behind By the Coronavirus
Germans could lose as much as 390 billion euros due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some groups have been hit harder than others, and even a big chunk of the middle class is at risk of slipping into poverty.
By Tim Bartz, David Böcking, Markus Dettmer, Martin Hesse, Henning Jauernig, Anton Rainer und Anne SeithWhen Andrea Anneser took up her new job at the beginning of the year, she could hardly believe her luck. The 49-year-old had just moved to the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein after six years in Manchester. She describes herself as a "Brexit refugee” who wanted to return to Germany before Britain fell into a crisis.
Everything was supposed to be better in Germany, where industry is strong and the future seemed secure. And indeed: A Hamburg company with a long history as a supplier to the ship and car industry hired her as a project manager. It was well-paid and seemed crisis-proof. "2020 was going to be my year,” she says. Then the first news stories began to trickle in from China. And Anneser started worrying about her plan.
‘Lives will be lost,’ warn aid groups as UN resolution leaves single Syria border crossing open
A UN Security Council resolution passed Saturday that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into rebel-held northwestern Syria will cost lives and intensify the suffering of 1.3 million people living there, aid agencies warned.
Western states had pressed for aid access to northwestern Syria to continue through two crossings at the Turkish border. But Russia -- President Bashar al-Assad's main ally -- and China vetoed a last-ditch effort to keep both open.
Following a week of division and intense negotiations, the Security Council passed a proposal submitted by Germany and Belgium allowing the use of the Bab al-Hawa crossing point for one year.
The Far-Right Revolution Was Waiting for an Opportunity. Now, It’s Here.
Murtaza Hussain
AT THIS POINT, it’s become a staple of dark humor to observe that 2020 has been the year in which the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse seemingly decided to descend on the United States. Yet even before our fears of war, pestilence, and economic collapse began taking physical form, one could already observe morbid symptoms spreading within the extremities of our body politic. The strongest sign of a looming social illness has been the rebirth and spread of extremist ideologies — beliefs not long ago dismissed by liberal triumphalists as relics of historical memory.
Mutated through new information technologies and drawing strength from feelings of economic and demographic dislocation, fascist and sectarian ideologies have found a home in the hearts of members of a new generation of Americans.
Letters of love: 'Our father wrote every day as he waited to be sent to Auschwitz'
Arrested by the Nazis for being a Jew, Daniele Israel spent months in jail in Trieste before being deported to Auschwitz. The letters he wrote to his wife as she hid with their two sons only recently came to light, writes Dany Mitzman, and paint a deeply moving portrait of a family shattered by the Holocaust.
"My father was an upholsterer, he knew how to sew," says 85-year-old Dario Israel.
His brother Vittorio, 84, agrees. "Sewing for him was as easy as pie. To unpick, pull out, refill and restitch would have been so simple for him."
They are describing how their father sent letters from his cell in Trieste's Coroneo prison to the city outside - by stitching them into the collars and cuffs of his dirty shirts before they were taken away to be laundered.
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