Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
Donald Trump says the government should get a cut from the sale of TikTok's US unit if an American firm buys it.
The US president said he made a demand for a "substantial portion" of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft's boss.
He also warned he will ban the app, which is owned by China's ByteDance, on 15 September if there is no deal.
ByteDance is under pressure to sell its US business after Mr Trump threatened a crackdown on Chinese tech companies.
Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study
Poorer, hotter parts of the world will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions, research finds
Oliver Milman in New York
Published onTue 4 Aug 2020 08.00 BST
The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions aren’t constrained, a major new study has found.
Rising temperatures are set to cause particular devastation in poorer, hotter parts of the world that will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions that will kill increasing numbers of people, the research has found.
The economic loss from the climate crisis, as well as the cost of adaption, will be felt around the world, including in wealthy countries.
Fatal shooting of 12-year-old girl sparks outrage over gang violence in Sweden
Justice minister Morgan Johansson vows ‘more police and harsher sentences’Rory Sullivan
The death of a 12-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting in Sweden over the weekend has shocked the country, leading to growing outrage and debate about gang violence.
The unnamed girl died after she was struck by a stray bullet in the car park of a petrol station near Stockholm in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to local media.
The Expressen newspaper reported that two men linked to a criminal gang were the intended targets of the shooting.
UN warns of 'generational catastrophe' over coronavirus school closures
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the pandemic caused the largest disruption of education in history. Over 160 countries have closed schools, pushing more than 1 billion students out of the classroom.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday of a "generational catastrophe" following the largest disruption of education in history, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The closure of schools in more than 160 countries has affected more than 1 billion students, according to UN figures.
Trump’s ‘inexperienced and unqualified’ ambassadors leave US allies aghast
A string of gaffes and scandals has cast a spotlight on President Donald Trump’s habit of staffing US embassies with campaign donors and personal friends who have irked key allies and stood out for their lack of qualifications.
In Iceland – a nation so safe that the president runs errands on a bicycle – US Ambassador Jeffery Ross Gunter has left locals aghast with his request for armed bodyguards.
Gunter also angered Icelandic lawmakers and residents alike in late July by retweeting a post from President Donald Trump that referred to the novel coronavirus as the "Invisible China Virus”, repeating the epithet and adding the Icelandic flag.
Malaysian police raid Al Jazeera's office, seize computers
Al Jazeera condemns 'troubling escalation' in crackdown on press, urges authorities to immediately cease criminal probe.
Malaysian police have raided Al Jazeera's Kuala Lumpur office and seized two computers, the news network said, condemning the incident as a "troubling escalation" in the government's crackdown on press freedoms.
The raid on Tuesday came after authorities in Malaysia announced they were investigating Al Jazeera for sedition, defamation and violation of the country's Communications and Multimedia Act.
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