(Natural News) The Chinese government may not be able to walk and chew gun at the same time, but the United States president certainly can and Beijing is about to discover that. According to The Asia Times, China is attempting to ‘take advantage’ of the current Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to flex its muscle in the highly contested and well-traveled waters of the South China Sea. […]
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By Gareth Wilson, award-winning journalist who’s covered South African news for 15 years. He specializes in security issues and has written for several publications globally and nationally. White billionaires giving money to help struggling South Africans during the Covid-19 economic slump have faced a barrage of insults from anti-white radical politicians. Leading the outcry is the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) parliamentary party, which went off half-cocked […]
China conducted war drills in the South China Sea this week as the COVID-19 pandemic terrorizes the US, forcing the Pentagon to divert its attention to the Homeland to manage the public health crisis that is unfolding rather than countering Beijing in the open seas. Asia Times reports that in recent days China ramped up military drills and deployed military assets in the highly contested waters of […]
The U.S. Navy has announced that Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS10) is patrolling the South China Sea while deployed to the 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR). “Part of Destroyer Squadron 7, Giffords is on a rotational deployment in U.S. 7th Fleet helping enhance interoperability with partners & serve as a ready-response force,” the Navy message states. USS Gabrielle Giffords is a modular, […]
New media reports suggest younger people are contracting the coronavirus in southern US states at a higher rate, and greater travel puts the region more at risk, but they ignore long-standing realities. “More young people in the South seem to be dying from Covid-19,” The Atlantic announced in their latest report on the pandemic, compiled through their own Covid Tracking Project. In Louisiana, people in the […]
20 Mar, 2020 22:04 North Korea has launched what is believed to be a missile off its east coast, falling somewhere near Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), according to a report in South Korean media and the Japanese Coast Guard. Source
The United States on Wednesday named seven companies that it has blacklisted for trade-in Iranian petrochemicals, three based in mainland China, three in Hong Kong and one in South Africa, the State Department said in a statement, Reuters reports. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said on Tuesday the agency was targeting such entities but did not name them. His announcement appeared designed to signal […]
A South Korean church is doing its part in helping humanity take two giant steps backward in fighting the coronavirus. River Grace Community church in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, told its parishioners that they could help stop the spread of the virus by spraying salt water into their mouths. But the church used a spray bottle that it didn’t disinfect between people and instead wound up spreading the virus to 46 […]
Society 21:27 GMT 16.03.2020Get short URL Two suspected rhinoceros poachers were killed earlier this month in a shootout at the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park in South Africa, according to Nomusa Dube-Ncube, who is the member of the KwaZulu-Natal province’s Executive Council responsible for economic development, tourism and environmental affairs. According to Dube-Ncube, “courageous field staff, who work in dangerous conditions” came across three armed suspected rhino poachers on […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a national state of disaster due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. So far, 61 Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the country. The president warned that the epidemic might have a significant and “potentially lasting” effect on the country’s economy, which is already in recession. Earlier this week, the World Health Organization classified the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. […]
Islamabad has signaled willingness to partake in a joint response to the coronavirus with a bloc of South Asian nations, after Indian PM Narendra Modi broke years of stalemate with the regional body and called for coordination. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said on Friday that the country’s Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Zafar Mirza, would participate in a joint teleconference […]
Authored by Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarno via Counterpunch.org, Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to Brazil sometime this year. All eyes are on the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, whose Secretary of […]
Last June, when stocks were merrily grinding higher without a care in the world, and certainly oblivious of the crash that was about to slam global markets half a year later, we explained why South Korea’s massive autocallable issuance could be “ground zero” of the next vol catastrophe. In retrospect it wasn’t: the proverbial “black swan” of the next crisis turned out to be a Chinese […]
Unknown gunmen shot dead two prominent anti-government activists on Tuesday in Maysan governorate, south of Iraq, Anadolu Agency reported. A police officer in the Maysan police department told the news agency that unidentified gunmen opened fire on the activists – Abdul Quddus Qasim and Karrar Adel – near the industrial zone in the city of Amara. “The activists were killed instantly, while the attackers fled the […]
Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, A major airport in Atlanta has admitted that neither its own officials, nor the Department of Homeland Security are screening travellers arriving from Italy or South Korea, two countries where the coronavirus has hit the hardest outside of China. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia announced that while the CDC has demanded screening of passengers from China and […]
Since we checked in last on Sunday evening, hundreds of new cases have been confirmed in Europe and Asia, but the ambient level of global hysteria has seemingly escalated with the limit-down moves in seemingly every global market that isn’t nailed down. In the US, 537 cases have been identified since the first cases arrived in Washington State and California back in January, including the dozens […]
HomeWorld News 8 Mar, 2020 23:02 Get short URL North Korea has reportedly launched three projectiles towards the Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. The type of missiles is so far unknown. North Korea had fired two short-range projectiles off its eastern coast just last week, in its first missile test in 2020. Also on rt.com Pyongyang launches TWO projectiles towards […]
SEOUL (Sputnik) – The number of coronavirus-infected people has gone up to 7,134 in South Korea, with a total of 50 deaths from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) currently registered in the country, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC). Six new deaths were registered as of 7 March. The number of people who have been discharged from hospital in South Korea now […]
South Korean lawmakers voted Thursday to place tough new requirements on cryptocurrency exchanges, adding legitimacy to the country’s sprawling crypto economy – and potentially triggering a market consolidation down the road. As reported by CoinDesk Korea, the legislation – an amendment to Korea’s existing Financial Information Act – shores up South Korea’s anti-money-laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) framework for virtual asset service providers (VASPs). The […]
As the novel coronavirus tears through South Korea’s hot zones, accelerated by the cult members who resisted getting tested after the first few cases emerged, scenes at some of the advanced capitalist economy’s hospitals are beginning to resemble the crowded hallways and demoralizing refusals that were hallmarks of the “bad old days” of mid-January through mid-February, when the novel coronavirus outbreak was at its most severe […]
On Monday, the Houthi-affiliated Supreme Political Council (SPC) and the National Salvation Government (NSG) held a meeting to discuss plans to expand operations in the southern and eastern fronts in the conflict against the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition. Sanaa-based news agency, Saba reported that the plans were approved “to confront occupation” in the provinces currently not under NSG control. The meeting was chaired by SPC member […]
It’s still early yet, but so far Super Tuesday is turning out to be pretty super for former Vice President Joe Biden, bolstered by especially strong support in the South, leading MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Al Sharpton to question Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders‘ general election viability against President Donald Trump. After winning the South Carolina primary by a large margin, Biden was viewed as benefiting from […]
As I watched the returns come in from South Carolina Saturday night, one idea dominated my thoughts. What if South Carolina had voted first, not fourth? Who knows who would have won. But I will bet you this: Cory Booker and Kamala Harris would still be in this race, while Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out Sunday, and Amy Klobuchar, who exited Monday, would have been out […]
Filmmaker and prominent Bernie Sanders supporter Michael Moore waved off former Vice President Joe Biden’s decisive South Carolina primary win on Monday night, claiming the state “is not representative of the United States.” With moderate and establishment Democrats rallying around Biden ahead of Super Tuesday, including candidates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg dropping out and endorsing the ex-veep, Moore appeared on MSNBC’s The Beat With Ari […]