The world's now scrambling for dry ice. It's just one headache in getting coronavirus vaccines where they need to go
Updated 1041 GMT (1841 HKT) November 21, 2020
Vaccines like to be kept cool, none more so than the Pfizer candidate for Covid-19, which has to be deep-frozen. And that's going to be an issue for developing countries -- and for rural areas in the developed world.
Protests erupt in Brazil after black man dies after being beaten outside supermarket
A black man who died after being beaten by supermarket security guards in the city of Porto Alegre on the eve of Black Consciousness Day has sparked outrage across Brazil after videos of the incident circulated on social media.
Footage showed João Alberto Silveira Freitas being punched in the face just outside the doors of a Carrefour supermarket, late on Thursday. Other clips showed Freitas’ being kneeled on.
Dozens of protesters entered a Carrefour in Brazil’s capital, Brasilia, on Friday morning, chanting “Black lives matter!” One held a sign reading: “Don’t shop at Carrefour. You could die”. Inside another Carrefour in Rio de Janeiro, protesters shouted “Carrefour Killer!” as a black man lay still atop the conveyor belt of a checkout. They forced the store’s closure.
Families of detained Hong Kong dozen protest on island near Chinese prison
Last week the seven detainees wrote handwritten letters to their family, but the group said in a statement that "they seem to have been compiled under duress".
Relatives and supporters of 12 Hongkongers, detained in China after trying to flee the city by speedboat, protested on Saturday 21 September on an island near the Chinese prison where they have been held virtually incommunicado for nearly three months.
The 11 men and one woman were captured by the Chinese coastguard on Sunday 23rd August 2020 aboard a speedboat believed to be bound for Taiwan.
All had faced charges linked to the protest movement embroiling Hong Kong, including rioting and violation of the national security law China imposed in June.
Ethiopia: Government forces 'capture Tigray's second-largest city'
The Ethiopian government says it has captured the city of Adigrat in the insurgency-hit Tigray region. Meanwhile, PM Abiy Ahmed has rebuffed an African Union push to mediate in the war with northern rebel forces.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's office announced Saturday that government security forces had captured the city of Adigrat and was advancing on Mekele, the capital of the northern Tigray region.
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) said that nine people had died among heavy civilian casualties during an assault by federal troops on Adigrat.
Rights groups, press freedom advocates protest against French security bill
Thousands protested in Paris and other French cities Saturday against a security bill that would outlaw the publication of images of on-duty police officers. The government says the law is aimed at protecting officers from retribution while critics say it would violate press freedom and the ability to document police abuses.
Rights campaigners and journalists organizations staged street protests in Paris and other French cities on Saturday against a security bill that they say would be a violation of the freedom of information.
The proposed measure would create a new criminal offense of publishing images of police officers with intent to cause them harm.
Conservative News Site Warns Donald Trump: 'Concede And Move On'
The Washington Examiner urged President Donald Trump to “move on” and accept defeat in the 2020 election in an editorial published Friday.
The conservative news outlet warned that Trump’s ongoing attempts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory could jeopardize the GOP candidates running for Georgia’s two Senate seats in January runoff elections, and thus cost the Republican Party its control of the Senate.
The site has called out Trump before, but often strikes a friendly tone on the president.
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