Trump engages in self-sabotage ahead of historic vaccine rollout
Updated 1241 GMT (2041 HKT) December 13, 2020
As doses of a coronavirus vaccine are being prepared to be shipped to communities across the United States, President Donald Trump has an opportunity to mark a historic milestone for science -- and show some semblance of leadership in curbing the spread of Covid-19 as the number of US cases crosses 16 million.
Nigerian police say 400 pupils missing after gunmen attack secondary school
Some students ran for safety as police exchanged fire with bandits ‘armed with AK-47 rifles’
Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country’s north-western Katsina state, police have confirmed.
The Government Science secondary school in Kankara was attacked on Friday night by a large group of bandits who shot “with AK-47 rifles”, a state police spokesman said.
Officers engaged the attackers “in a gun duel which gave [some of] the students the opportunity to scale the fence of the school and run for safety”, the spokesman, Gambo Isah, said in a statement. About 400 students were missing, Isah added. The school is believed to have more than 600 students.
Poland protests: Large crowds march against right-wing government after abortion ban
Protest scheduled to coincide with 39th anniversary of martial law crackdown by country's then-communist regime
Large numbers of people marched Sunday in Warsaw to protest Poland's right-wing government, the latest demonstration after a high court ruled to further tighten the country's already restrictive abortion law.
Sunday's protest was scheduled to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the 1981 martial law crackdown by the country's communist regime of the time. Many Poles accuse the government of acting more and more like the authoritarian regime of that era.
It was organized by the Women's Strike, a group behind a string of mass nationwide protests since the Oct. 22 abortion ruling. Others also joined in, with entrepreneurs turning out in frustration at the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Countdown to LockdownGermany Is Faring Poorly in the Second Wave of the Coronavirus
Germany has squandered the gains it made this spring in dealing with the coronavirus. A series of miscalculations by politicians in the fall has contributed to a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections in recent days. A second lockdown is coming.
By Lukas Eberle, Markus Feldenkirchen, Milena Hassenkamp, Martin Knobbe, Veit Medick, Marcel Rosenbach, Lydia Rosenfelder und Gerald Traufetter
Three headlines from recent days: The Collm Hospital in the town of Oschatz in northern Saxony is filling up. It is only admitting patients who fall into the triage category "red,” meaning people whose lives are acutely threatened.
At the Arberlandklinik hospital in the Bavarian town of Zwiesel, dozens of nursing staff are infected. The hospital had to stop admitting patients into emergency care.
Survivors recount horrific details of Mai Kadra massacre
Witnesses and relatives of victims say the bloodletting in the small town in Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region went on unabated for almost 24 hours.
With communications gradually being restored to parts of Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region, survivors and residents in the town of Mai Kadra have been able to share harrowing accounts of the slaughter of civilians more than a month ago, the worst confirmed atrocity in a weeks-long conflict between government forces and the now-fugitive regional government.
On November 12, nearly two weeks after the start of the fighting in the northern region, an Amnesty International investigation cited witnesses as saying that forces linked to the embattled Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) had gone on a rampage in the small town three days earlier.
‘I was in prison at 20 - and a music executive by 28’
By Jon Kelly
BBC News
As he faced a long jail sentence, the life Niyah Smith had once dreamed of looked impossible. But the chance to turn his fortunes around came sooner than he expected.
On a warm London afternoon, a black Audi A3 cruised slowly along a ring road. Four young men were inside, and they'd all just travelled to Birmingham and back. From his back seat, a 20-year-old named Niyah Smith looked up at the rear-view mirror and noticed a police car approaching.
The friend sitting directly in front of Niyah had spotted it too. "Everyone just relax," he told the other passengers. The date was 19 June 2012.
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