Did Covid come from a Wuhan lab? What we know so far
To China’s fury, Joe Biden has ordered a review of rival theories about lab leaks and animal hosts
President Joe Biden has ordered US intelligence agencies to conduct a 90-day review of what is known about the origins of Covid-19 and whether it could have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. So what does this mean for the lab leak theory?
Has new evidence emerged?
Despite the Biden announcement and various stories in the US media claiming support is growing for the Wuhan lab leak theory, the answer is that surprisingly little has changed in terms of good quality evidence – at least in the public domain.
The most striking new claim in recent days, ahead of Biden’s announcement, was in the Wall Street Journal, which reported that US intelligence agencies were told that three unnamed staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were sick enough to go hospital in November 2019 with symptoms that might have been coronavirus.
Belarus opposition tells Europe to get tougher with Lukashenko and avoid a ‘North Korea on its doorstep’
Europe has targeted Belarus with sanctions but is now urged to go much further
Belarus’s beleaguered opposition has called on the European Union to recognise its “role” in allowing Alexander Lukashenko to build a dictatorship on its borders — by imposing stringent sanctions that strike at the heart of his regime.
Speaking with The Independent, a senior spokesman for Belarus’s president-in-exile Svetlana Tikhonovskaya said European policymakers had long “underestimated” the risk posed by Mr Lukashenko.
“We warned European leaders about the people being disappeared, the media being destroyed, but they kept visiting and making Lukashenko feel untouchable,” Franak Viacorka, a former journalist, said.
Opinion: The dilemma with Assad in Syria
Syria has been through ten years of war, destruction, and death. Yet Bashar Assad is still having himself elected president. It's time for a strategy change in dealing with this country in need, writes Matthias von Hein.
It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict the outcome of the Syrian "presidential election": When all the votes are counted, the winner won't be Abdullah Salloum Abdullah or Mahmoud Ahmad Marei. The two mostly unknown opponents of Bashar Assad are mere extras without a chance in this election farce.
On symbolic Rwanda visit, Macron recognises France's 'responsibility' in 1994 genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron, on a symbolic visit to Rwanda Thursday, said France had "a role, a history and a political responsibility" towards Rwanda. But he stopped short of an official apology, saying France had not been complicit in the 1994 genocide.
"Standing here today, with humility and respect, by your side, I have come to recognise our responsibilities," Macron said in a speech at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where the remains of 250,000 victims of the 1994 genocide are interred.
He said France had a duty to admit the "suffering it inflicted on the Rwandan people by too long valuing silence over the examination of the truth".
BJP supporters say ‘won’t forgive’ Modi for COVID ‘indifference’
India prime minister’s handling of the pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 people leads to disillusionment even among his ardent supporters.
On April 29, Amit Jaiswal, a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), passed away in Mathura, a small town in Uttar Pradesh state, just three hours from the national capital.
The 42-year old died of COVID-19 ten days after testing positive. His grieving family said that despite repeated SOS tweets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who followed Jaiswal on Twitter, no assistance came.
The children selling explicit videos on OnlyFans
By Noel Titheradge and Rianna Croxford
BBC News
British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.
Under-18s have used fake identification to set up accounts, and police say a 14-year-old used a grandmother's passport.
The UK's most senior police officer for child protection also says children are being "exploited" on the platform.
OnlyFans says its age verification systems go over and above regulatory requirements.
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