The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate after winning the 2020 NBA Championship in Game Six on Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate after winning the 2020 NBA Championship in Game Six on Sunday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images For some people one event brought home the impact of the coronavirus pandemic: March 11. The day the NBA shut down its season. Resuming four months later, players, coaches and staffers lived in a bubble, sequestered from the outside world. All games among […]
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Azerbaijan and Armenia have blamed each other of violating the ceasefire in the Nagorno-Karabakh region late on Saturday. Capital of self-proclaimed republic, Stepankert, has reportedly come under heavy shelling. Azerbaijan, for its part, accused Armenia of striking the town of Terter with artillery fire. RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov said alert sirens were heard in Stepankert, the capital of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, late on Saturday. Several explosions – both in the air and on the land – were observed in the city, he added. The ceasefire, reached on Friday during a meeting of the rivaling parties in Moscow, came into effect […]
Nearly a half-million residents in Texas and Louisiana have been left without power after Hurricane Delta made landfall along the US gulf coast, battering cities with winds up to 80 miles per hour. Delta hit land in southwest Louisiana on Friday night, inflicting widespread damage and knocking out electricity for some 379,636 people in the state and another 108,402 in neighboring Texas, according to PowerOutage.us, a project that aggregates data from utility companies around the country. Footage circulating on social media showed powerful gusts sweeping through the streets of multiple Louisiana cities, including Jennings and Lake Charles, where power lines were […]
The United Kingdom is witnessing a resurgence in coronavirus rates in various parts of the country, with Northern England cities such as Manchester, Newcastle, and Liverpool, along with central cities such as Nottingham, among the most COVID-stricken areas. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has vowed to take action to slow the pandemic. England’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, intends to reveal on Monday, in front of the House of Commons, his government’s plan to impose a three-tier COVID-19 lockdown across the country to slow the ongoing spike in infection rates, The Sun reported. The newspaper said that the new measures are expected […]
Leading global cinema operator Cineworld is reportedly planning to close its sites in the US, the UK and Ireland after studios pushed back the release of big budget films casting a shadow on post-pandemic revival of the industry. The possible closures were first reported by the UK’s Sunday Times. The paper said Cineworld addressed UK prime Minister Boris Johnson and culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, warning in a letter that the industry is now “unviable.” Cineworld is Britain’s biggest cinema chain and is one of the world’s largest, second only to Wanda Cinemas. The closures may put as many as 5,500 jobs […]
India has recorded 100,000 fatalities from Covid-19 after battling the lethal outbreak for seven months, becoming the third nation to cross the six-digit figure after the United States and Brazil, according to official tallies. The country’s total death toll sat at 100,842 on Saturday morning, on top of nearly 6.5 million infections, according to the Indian Health Ministry. Passing the 100,000-mark seven months to the day after India reported its first batch of cases, the country now has the highest rate of daily new infections in the world, most recently reporting 79,476 cases in the space of a single day. Also […]
Trials of Russia’s Sputnik V, the world’s first registered vaccine against Covid-19, are going well, and giving hope of a return to normality. That’s according to a statement from the ministry of health in Moscow. More than 5,000 volunteers have received the formula, and there have been no severe side effects,officials announced on Monday. Trials are currently in the third, and final, stage. “To date, more than 5,000 citizens have been vaccinated with the Sputnik V vaccine,”read a statement by the ministry, quoting Alexander Gintsburg, the head of Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, which created the formula. “Cases of […]
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https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/09/1080405823_0:63:3072:1791_1200x675_80_0_0_47446959f43c7fb1800f3687141b4689.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202009091080405573-uk-pm-johnson-answers-lawmakers-questions-amid-reported-plans-to-rework-withdrawal-deal—video/ On Tuesday, the eighth round of post-Brexit talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union kicked off in London as Prime Minister Johnson set a 15 October deadline to reach a free trade agreement with Brussels. Sputnik is live from London where the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is answering questions from British MPs amid reports he intends to override some parts of the withdrawal agreement with the European Union. The Financial Times newspaper reported this week, citing officials, that Johnson is seeking to override key parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the […]
Signature Bank extended dozens more loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to cryptocurrency businesses than was previously reported. Around $20 million of the $1.9 billion in PPP loans the bank extended was given to roughly 40 firms in the digital asset space, said CEO Joseph DePaolo. The executive would not name the firms it gave PPP loans to or give an exact number of firms who took out a loan through the relief program. (Signature’s $1.9 billion in loans accounts for roughly .55% of the entire $350 billion that was disbursed through the U.S. Small Business Administration.) Public records […]
With the planet still deep in the throes of a horrific pandemic, the development is not exactly a welcome one: There is growing evidence that you can catch the novel coronavirus more than once. In recent weeks, a small number of people in the United States, Europe, and China appear to have caught COVID-19 again after recovering from the disease a previous time. The prospect of reinfection has implications for immune response, herd immunity, and vaccine strategy. But conversations with public-health and immunization experts suggest these high-profile cases of reinfection may actually be encouraging—even if they also raise some spooky red […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107855/83/1078558374_0:0:3077:1731_1200x675_80_0_0_8746bb01adfb5766bbbdd850b392588e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008271080297198-three-katyusha-rockets-land-inside-baghdads-green-zone-no-casualties-reported/ Three Katyusha rockets have landed inside Baghdad’s Green Zone on Friday local time, according to the Iraqi Prime Minister’s press office. No casualties have been reported. The rockets were launched from the Al-Baiji area, a neighborhood in Baghdad west of the Green Zone. Between three and five explosions have been reported. The bombing is the second one within hours, according to Sky News Arabia. Earlier Thursday evening, a missile also landed inside the Green Zone perimeter, Arab News reported. According to the outlet, there have been more than 30 attacks on American interests in Iraq […]
Wisconsin witnessed a third night of protests in Kenosha after a police-involved shooting of a black man, who is said to be paralysed at the moment. Violence continued on Tuesday night, with fires and clashes with police reported in the city. Civil unrest continued in Kenosha on Tuesday night, with riot police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds of protesters. The demonstrations were initially peaceful, but many of the protesters defied the 8 p.m. curfew and walked toward the fenced courthouse, which sustained damage on the first night of unrest on Sunday. After a crowd of several hundred […]
The United Kingdom’s Health Secretary is reportedly seeking to replace Public Health England (PHE) amid criticisms that the organisation failed to respond effectively to the coronavirus pandemic. Government ministers are facing criticism on Sunday following reports that Health Secretary Matt Hancock is looking to scrap Public Health England (PHE) and replace it with a new pandemic response agency. Hancock is reportedly going to announce the formation of a National Institute for Health Protection in the coming week, tasked with overseeing PHE’s work on Covid-19 as well as the implementation of the UK’s NHS Test and Trace system. Opposition MPs have accused […]
A hotel has been attacked by unknown gunmen in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, reports suggest. Video posted on social media shows a large plume of smoke emerging from the scene that apparently suffered the explosion. Reports of the attack emerged on local media on Sunday. Several videos circulating online show dust and smoke emerging from the location, identified as Mogadishu’s Elite Hotel, while gunfire can be heard in the background. A VBIED was detonated in front of the popular Hotel known as “Hotel Elite” at Liido beach in Mogadishu. Following the explosion, armed gunmen stormed the building and there is currently […]
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Health Editor’s Note: And just when you thought the COVID-19 news could not get worse….Carol Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported by Jordan Ford/Penn State News UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Many epidemiologists believe that the initial COVID-19 infection rate was undercounted due to testing issues, asymptomatic and alternatively symptomatic individuals, and a failure to identify early cases. Now, a new study from Penn State estimates that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed. In a paper […]
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Daily Beast: Like many of my fellow Texans, I was shocked when Senator Ted Cruz was recently spotted not wearing a mask on a flight from Dallas to Houston as COVID-19 cases were spiking across the state. Pandemic petulance is pretty on brand for the junior senator, but his latest fit of obstinacy comes at a particularly dangerous time: hurricane season. Sen. Ted Cruz “consistent with airline policy” after being photographed maskless on American Airlines flight https://t.co/1P0HLFHM2g — TIME (@TIME) July 13, 2020 This is a personal issue for me. Up until my recent retirement from the Army, I served as […]
After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP After a Washington Post story reporting multiple instances of sexual harassment against female employees, the Washington NFL team’s owner Dan Snyder said the alleged behavior had “no place in our franchise or society,” and hired independent investigators to look at the allegations. Mike Stewart/AP The NFL and Washington team owner Dan […]
12 Jul, 2020 18:44 Follow RT on The USS Bonhomme Richard has caught fire at a naval base in San Diego. Footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke emitting from under the ship’s deck; at least one explosion and injuries among the crew have been reported. More views of the #fire burning now on board US #Navy amphibious ship USS #BONHOMME RICHARD LHD6 at 32nd Street Naval Station in San Diego. Reports so far indicate 3 sailors, 1 SDFD fireman injured. At the moment the fire seems to be growing pic.twitter.com/icPblRJOEV — Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) July 12, […]
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The offending tweet was sent out by Vanessa Neumann, a Venezuelan-American socialite and former Mick Jagger girlfriend tasked with representing self-proclaimed ‘interim president’ Juan Guaido in the UK. Vanessa Neumann, Guaido’s representative in London, has had a frustrating few days on Twitter after being called out for a tweet calling for the death of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The July 3 tweet, detected and screengrabbed by Spanish-speaking Twitter users, and brought to the attention of English-speaking audiences by independent UK-based journalist John McEvoy, features the phrases “Death to @NicolasMaduro,” and “the people will win.” The tweet was soon deleted, with Guaido’s […]
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In the wake of a US Marine being reprimanded for violating social distancing rules on Okinawa, the family member of another Marine has been recorded as the service’s first COVID-19 infection on the island. A Thursday statement from Marine Forces Japan detailed that the family member case of the novel coronavirus was the first on the island prefecture since April 30. The release went on to detail that the family member had returned from the US on June 19 and authorities and Navy health officials are now performing contact tracing “to determine whether anyone else may have been exposed,” reported Stars and […]
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UK Police is responding to an incident at a park where Black Lives Matter protests took place in the southern English city of Reading. British media reported at least 3 people were killed and several are injured. What we know so far about the Forbury Gardens stabbing:🔴 3 people are dead and at least two in hospital🔴 Police treating attack as random🔴 Paramedics and air ambulance are treating the woundedAll the latest here 👇#rdgukhttps://t.co/mfD2cRsg8B — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 20, 2020 At least three people have been killed, while two more have been hospitalized in critical condition, local media reported, citing […]
According to multiple media reports, several people were stabbed in Forbury Gardens, Reading, at a site, where earlier a Black Lives Matter protest took place. Thames Valley Police confirmed that they are aware of reports of an incident in the Reading’s park, saying that “officers are on the scene and investigating the incident”. We are aware of reports of an incident in Forbury Gardens, Reading. Officers are on the scene and investigating the incident. — Thames Valley Police (@ThamesVP) June 20, 2020 According to local media, two air ambulances were called to the park as reports emerged that at least 12 people […]
At Least 2,000 More Black Americans Were Lynched Than Previously Reported By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Huff Post. June 19, 2020 At Least 2,000 More Black Americans Were Lynched Than Previously Reported2020-06-192020-06-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/1919-chicago-race-riots-e1592573097275.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jun Fujita/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images. The Equal Justice Initiative documented racial terror lynchings during the post-emancipation Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1876. White mobs and individuals lynched at least 2,000 more Black Americans than previously documented, according to a new report from the Equal Justice Initiative. The report, released Tuesday, documents confirmed lynchings during the Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1876, after the end of the Civil War and Black […]
In late May, a number of US media outlets reported that US President Donald Trump was taken by Secret Service agents to an underground bunker as potentially violent demonstrations protesting the killing of African-American George Floyd took place near the White House. US President Donald Trump has reportedly directed officials within his administration to find and prosecute those responsible for leaking information about his retreat to the heavily-fortified underground White House bunker during an anti-police-brutality protest near the White House on Friday 29 May, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The report claimed that Trump complained to advisors that he cannot get “good” stories […]
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The incident comes amid ongoing tensions between Washington and Tehran in the Persian Gulf region, which began last year with mysterious sabotage attacks against several oil tankers off the Emirati coast. Iranian cargo ship the Behbahan has sunk in Iraq’s territorial waters, Maritime Safety and Port Protection Organization director Nader Pasandeh confirmed Friday. One crew member of the ship is said to have died in the incident, with two others missing, and four people rescued, the official said, as cited by Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency. The two missing persons include one Iranian and one Indian national. According to Pasandeh, the […]
An unknown culprit used the official Twitter account of the UK Civil Service to hammer Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The PM was defending his adviser, Dominic Cummings, who’s been reported to police for breaking lockdown rules. Cummings has been hounded by the British press and urged to resign since it emerged on Friday that he’d traveled 250 miles from London to his parents’ farm in Durham in April. His journey flouted the national coronavirus lockdown, and took place while he was supposed to be isolating at home due to his wife’s Covid-19 symptoms. Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his embattled adviser […]
Details have emerged on the health of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, father and trainer of UFC lightweight champion Khabib and who on Thursday woke from a coma, with reports revealing he suffered a heart attack brought on by Covid-19. On Thursday, it was reported the renowned martial arts trainer had regained consciousness after entering into a medically-induced coma the previous day following heart surgery, but that he remained in a ‘serious but stable’ condition in a Moscow military hospital. It was later revealed that upon arrival at the hospital from his native Dagestan, the 57-year-old was diagnosed with Covid-19 infection, which in turn brought on […]
Explosions and gunfire have been heard from inside a hospital in western Kabul operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), local media reported. Medical staff are said to be trapped inside as the battle rages on. The hospital is located in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of the Afghan capital. At least two powerful explosions have been heard at the scene, TOLO News reported. گزارشهای نخستین میرسانند که افراد مسلح بر یک شفاخانه در منطقه دشت برچی از مربوطات حوزه سیزدهم امنیتی کابل حمله کردهاند. pic.twitter.com/NjNPMVqcyV — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) May 12, 2020 The Afghan Interior Ministry said a special police unit has arrived at […]