Even countries that got coronavirus under control are now struggling. That's deeply concerning for the rest of the world
Updated 0945 GMT (1745 HKT) July 28, 2020
The coronavirus is "easily the most severe" public health emergency the World Health Organization (WHO) has ever faced, its director-general said Monday, as countries that previously appeared to have the pandemic under control recorded an uptick in cases.
Across the Asia-Pacific region, where countries were among the first hit by the virus and the first to contain it, there have been new and in some cases seemingly unexplained increases in the number of infections. Governments that had previously been lauded for their response to the pandemic now seem to be struggling.
All this is concerning news for those where the first wave of the virus has yet to come fully under control, let alone in the disaster zones of the United States and Brazil. It's especially scary as there are only a few more weeks of summer left in parts of the northern hemisphere, and many epidemiologists expect the virus to peak again in winter.
Covid-19 outbreak in Xinjiang prompts fears of spread inside China's camps
Infections in the province grow daily, with concerns that any cases inside Uighur internment camps may never be made public
Published onTue 28 Jul 2020 06.32 BST
Rising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the Xinjiang region has sparked fears the outbreak could reach the secretive internment camps where China is believed to have detained more than a million Muslim minority people.
On Monday, Chinese health authorities reported 68 new cases of Covid-19, including 57 in the far western region of Xinjiang, bringing the area’s reported total to 235. After a reported five-month streak of no infections in Xinjiang, the outbreak that began almost two weeks ago has appeared to take hold in the capital city of Urumqi, and spread to Kashgar about 300km away.
Egyptian women jailed for two years for ‘indecent’ TikTok dances
The charges against them include 'violating the values and principles of the Egyptian family'
Associated Press reporters
An Egyptian court sentenced several young women to two years in prison on Monday for posting “indecent” dance videos on TikTok in a fraught case that critics describe as a further crackdown on self-expression in the conservative society.
The women were also fined 300,000 Egyptian pounds (£14,570) each for “violating the values and principles of the Egyptian family”, inciting debauchery and promoting human trafficking, according to a statement from the public prosecutor.
Their lawyers vowed to appeal the ruling.
Is Trump sowing chaos in Portland to bolster reelection hopes?
Democratic mayors in six US states have called on Congress to halt President Donald Trump’s deployment of federal forces to their cities. FRANCE 24’s international affairs editor Douglas Herbert says the president has been accused of creating chaos to use as a rallying point for his own re-election on a law and order agenda.
Malaysia's Najib gets 12 years in jail for 1MDB-linked graft case
Ex-prime minister found guilty of corruption in landmark verdict, but remains free pending the outcome of an appeal.
by Ted Regencia
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to serve up to 12 years in jail after a court in Kuala Lumpur found him guilty of corruption in the first of several cases linked to the alleged theft of billions of dollars from the state fund, 1MDB.
The ruling on Tuesday makes Najib the first Malaysian leader to be convicted of corruption.
But the 67-year-old remains free as Judge Mohamad Nazlan Ghazali granted a stay order on the execution of Najib's sentence, pending an appeal.
Tahlequah: Killer whale who carried dead calf for days is pregnant
A killer whale who carried her dead new-born calf for 17 days while she swam 1,000 miles (1,600km), is pregnant according to scientists.
Scientists in Washington state made the discovery while recording drone images of Southern Resident killer whales.
They said that whales from three pods were pregnant including Tahlequah.
Killer whales have been known to carry dead calves for a week, but scientists at the time said Tahlequah set "a record"
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