Westerners are increasingly scared of traveling to China as threat of detention rises
Updated 0344 GMT (1144 HKT) March 10, 2021
Jeff Wasserstrom is a self-proclaimed China specialist who is seriously considering never returning to China -- at least, he says, not while President Xi Jinping is in power.
Russia accidentally shuts down state websites in Twitter slowdown
Censor says move is punishment for failure to remove ‘banned’ content relating to Navalny protests
Russia took action on Tuesday to slow down the speed of Twitter in a move that also appeared to have accidentally shut down the Kremlin’s own website, as well as other government agency sites.
The state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, said it was retaliating for Twitter’s alleged failure to remove banned content. It threatened a total block if the US platform did not comply with its deletion demands.
The punitive move was aimed at video content on Twitter, the regulator said, and would affect all mobile devices and half of non-mobile users. Twitter’s text-based services were working normally on Wednesday.
Richard Pusey: Australian man admits to celebrating and filming as four police officers lay dying on road
Australian police later found that Pusey had shared the video with his friends as well
Richard Pusey, an Australian national, has admitted to celebrating and filming four police officers who lay dying on the road after being hit by a lorry that had breached its lane on a freeway in Melbourne last year.
In April 2020, the 42-year-old mortgage broker was driving his Porsche car on a Melbourne freeway when four police officer stopped him for speeding. While they were completing the formalities to arrest him, they were struck by a passing lorry.
Is the gender pay gap here to stay?
The gender pay gap shows that women earn less than their male colleagues in the same job. But the indicator is also a political instrument and can ruin any debate if used in the wrong context.
It's a hair-raising thing. The gender pay gap tool is meant to make things easier to understand by showing with just one figure to what extent women get a worse deal in their professions than their male colleagues.
But if you advance the argument that women in Germany log gross hourly earnings that are 18% below those of men on average — meaning that Germany currently has a gender pay gap of 18% — you may be confronted with the following reply:
Myanmar security forces surround striking rail workers opposed to military coup
Myanmar security forces surrounded the staff compound of striking railway workers opposed to the military junta on Wednesday as ousted lawmakers appointed an acting vice president to take over the duties of detained politicians.
In New York, the U.N. Security Council failed to agree on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider “further measures.”
Talks on the statement would likely continue, diplomats said, after China, Russia, India and Vietnam all suggested amendments late on Tuesday to a British draft, including removal of the reference to a coup and the threat to consider further action.
Covid: Brazil experts issue warning as hospitals 'close to collapse'
Health systems in most of Brazil's largest cities are close to collapse because of Covid-19 cases, its leading health institute warns.
More than 80% of intensive care unit beds are occupied in the capitals of 25 of Brazil's 27 states, Fiocruz said.
Experts warn that the highly contagious variant in Brazil may have knock-on effects in the region and beyond.
"Brazil is a threat to humanity," Fiocruz epidemiologist Jesem Orellana told AFP news agency.
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