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Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly Dies Aged 61 Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died on Wednesday aged 61. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the ruling party's candidate for October's presidential election, died on Wednesday aged 61, the presidency said.

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आइवरी कोस्ट पीएम अमाडो गोन कूलिबली डेज़ एजेड 61

आइवरी कोस्ट पीएम अमाडो गोन कूलिबली डेज़ एजेड 61

आइवरी कोस्ट के प्रधानमंत्री अमादौ गोन कूलिबली का बुधवार को 61 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया।

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राष्ट्रपति पद के चुनाव के लिए आइवरी कोस्ट के प्रधान मंत्री अमादौ गोन कूलिबली, जो अक्टूबर के राष्ट्रपति चुनाव के लिए सत्ताधारी पार्टी के उम्मीदवार थे, का बुधवार को निधन हो गया।

आइवरी कोस्ट प्रेसीडेंसी के महासचिव पैट्रिक अची ने सार्वजनिक टेलीविजन पर कहा, “मुझे यह घोषणा करते हुए गहरा…

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Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly Dies Aged 61 Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died on Wednesday aged 61. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the ruling party's candidate for October's primary election, died on Wednesday aged 61, the presidency said.

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Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly Dies Aged 61 Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly died on Wednesday aged 61. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the ruling party's candidate for October's presidential election, died on Wednesday aged 61, the presidency said.

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Friday, March 12, 2021

Rich, developing nations wrangle over COVID vaccine patents (Reuters) Richer members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday to waive patent rights in an effort to boost production of COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations. South Africa and India renewed their bid to waive rules of the WTO’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement, a move that could allow generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines. South Africa argued the current TRIPS system does not work, pointing to the failure to secure life-saving medicines during the HIV/AIDS pandemic that had cost at least 11 million African lives. Medecins Sans Frontieres in October put together a letter signed by over 375 civil society organisations supporting the waiver. The South Africa and India proposal was backed by dozens of largely developing countries at the WTO, but opposed by Western countries, including Britain, Switzerland, EU nations and the United States, which have large domestic pharmaceutical industries.

US reports surge of kids at SW border, a challenge for Biden (AP) The number of migrant children and families seeking to cross the U.S. southwest border has surged to levels not seen since before the pandemic, a challenge for President Joe Biden. Statistics released Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection showed the number of children and families increased by more than 100% between January and February. Kids crossing by themselves rose 60% to more than 9,400, forcing the government to look for new places to hold them temporarily. The surge has been seized on by Republicans and former President Donald Trump as a line of attack on Biden, though his administration is turning back nearly all single adults, who make up the majority of border-crossers, under a public health order imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The Biden administration is temporarily holding children and families, mostly from Central America, for several days. They are generally then allowed to enter the U.S. while authorities evaluate their claims to asylum or see if they have any other legal right to stay in the country. It is a challenge for an administration that has been working to restore an asylum system largely dismantled under Trump and likely to face increasing pressure. Factors driving the increase include widespread hunger in Central America due to recent hurricanes, the economic upheaval of the pandemic and more fundamental social problems dating back years.

Brazil hospitals buckle (AP) Brazil’s hospitals are faltering as a highly contagious coronavirus variant tears through the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a national plan to contain COVID-19 has just fallen short. Piaui state’s Gov. Wellington Dias told The Associated Press that, unless pressure on hospitals is eased, growing numbers of patients will have to endure the disease without a hospital bed or any hope of treatment in an intensive care unit. “We have reached the limit across Brazil; rare are the exceptions,” Dias, who leads the governors’ forum, said. “The chance of dying without assistance is real.” Those deaths have already started. In Brazil’s wealthiest state, Sao Paulo, at least 30 patients died this month while waiting for ICU beds, according to a tally published Wednesday by the news site G1. In southern Santa Catarina state, 419 people are waiting for transfer to ICU beds. In neighboring Rio Grande do Sul, ICU capacity is at 106%.

Athens tackles heat and pollution with pocket-sized parks (Reuters) Tucked between rows of apartment blocks on an Athens street, a strip of green with a few trees, some plants and a bench offers a breathing space in the surrounding crush of concrete. The Greek capital has started creating “pocket parks”, transforming small plots once ridden with garbage and weeds, in a bid to tackle its chronic pollution. “It’s about creating green spaces, lowering the temperatures, giving quality of life and creating new reference points inside the city,” Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said. “It lets us breathe a bit, because the way we are here ... we are suffocating,” said 65-year-old Dimitra from the densely populated neighbourhood of Kypseli.

Myanmar’s searing smartphone images flood a watching world (AP) The images ricochet across the planet, as so many do in this dizzying era of film it, upload it, tell it to the world: scenes from a protest-turned-government crackdown, captured at ground level by smartphone users on the streets of Myanmar. Images shot across barricades and furtively through windows. From behind bushes and through smudged car windshields. Horizontal video. Vertical video. Video captured by people running toward chaos and away from it. People shouting. People helping. People demanding. People dying. It is a dynamic completely unlike the uprising that spread through the Southeast Asian nation in the pre-internet, pre-smartphone summer of 1988. Then, when student-led demonstrations were violently put down by the government, cementing Myanmar’s global notoriety as an isolated, repressive state, it took months, even years, for the outside world to understand the full story of what had happened. This time around, the imagery is plentiful and unsettling. Filmed by participants on the ground and uploaded, sometimes immediately, the protests and crackdowns are reaching millions of handheld devices around the planet, also almost immediately. It’s a vivid example of a technological truism in an age when capturing images has become utterly democratized: If you can glimpse it up close, you’re more likely to pay attention.

Most Americans support tough stance toward China on human rights, economic issues (Pew Research Center) Roughly nine-in-ten U.S. adults (89%) consider China a competitor or enemy, rather than a partner, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Many also support taking a firmer approach to the bilateral relationship, whether by promoting human rights in China, getting tougher on China economically or limiting Chinese students studying abroad in the United States. Americans rarely brought up the Chinese people or the country’s long history and culture in their responses. Instead, they focused primarily on the Chinese government—including its policies or how it behaves internationally—as well as its economy.

Ten years on, Japan mourns victims of earthquake, Fukushima nuclear disaster (Reuters) Japan on Thursday mourned nearly 20,000 victims of a massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan 10 years ago, destroying towns and triggering nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Huge waves triggered by the 9.0-magnitude quake—one of the strongest on record—crashed into the northeastern coast, crippling the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant and forcing more than 160,000 residents to flee as radiation spewed into the air. The government has spent about $300 billion (32.1 trillion yen) to rebuild the tsunami-devastated region, but areas around the Fukushima plant remain off-limits, worries about radiation levels linger and many who left have settled elsewhere. Decommissioning of the crippled plant will take decades and billions of dollars. The disaster has also left survivors in Tohoku struggling to overcome the grief of losing families and whole communities to the waves in a few frightening hours on the afternoon of March 11, 2011.

Lebanon’s politicians show no sign of saving their country, France says (Reuters) France’s foreign minister said on Thursday time was running out to prevent Lebanon collapsing and that he could see no sign that the country’s politicians were doing what they could to save it. France has spearheaded international efforts to rescue the former French protectorate from its deepest crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war by trying to use Paris’ historical influence to persuade squabbling politicians to adopt a reform roadmap and form a new government to unlock international aid. “I would be tempted to qualify Lebanese politicians as guilty of not helping a country in danger,” Jean-Yves le Drian told a news conference in Paris. “They all committed to act to create an inclusive government and committed to implementing indispensable reforms. That was seven months ago and nothing is moving. I think it’s not too late, but the delays are very small before collapse.”

UN food aid chief visits Yemen, fears famine (AP) The head of the U.N. food agency warned after a visit to Yemen that his underfunded organization may be forced to seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine in coming months, describing conditions in the war-stricken nation as “hell.” The World Food Program needs at least $815 million in Yemen aid over the next six months, but has only $300 million, the agency’s executive director, David Beasley, told The Associated Press in an interview. He said the agency would need another $1.9 billion to meet targets for the year. Beasley visited Yemen earlier this week, including the capital of Sanaa which is under the control of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. He said that at a child malnutrition ward in a Sanaa hospital he saw children wasting away from lack of food. Many, he said, were on the brink of death from entirely preventable and treatable causes, and they were the lucky ones who were receiving medical care. He said the world needs to wake up to how bad things have gotten in Yemen, particularly for the country’s youngest.

Shock and uncertainty after death of Ivory Coast PM Bakayoko (Reuters) Ivory Coast faced shock and uncertainty on Thursday following the death of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, the West African nation’s second premier to die in office in less than eight months. A close ally of President Alassane Ouattara, Bakayoko, who died of cancer a few days after his 56th birthday, was appointed prime minister in July 2020 after the death of his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ouattara’s handpicked successor. A central figure in Ivorian politics over the past two decades as the country was plunged into a prolonged conflict and a partition, Bakayoko, a jovial character with roots in media and showbiz, emerged as a conciliatory figure, able to talk to all sides of the conflict. His capacity to gain the trust of all sides including former rebel soldiers who staged a series of mutinies in 2017, threatening a fragile peace in the world’s top cocoa producing nation, saw him appointed as defence minister in 2017, and kept the portfolio when he became prime minister.

Nuclear power (Scientific American) Nuclear power is waning, but not for the typical fears. Rather, other ways of generating electricity have just become cheaper and more available. Nuclear power in 2020 accounted for about 19 percent of U.S. electricity needs, a figure that by 2050 is projected to slip to 11 percent according to the Energy Information Administration. Nuclear power is over half of low-carbon electricity generation in the U.S., and is about 30 percent of the world’s low-carbon electricity. The coming years will determine how much nuclear power will play a role in the energy future, as new demos of small modular reactors begin to roll out in the United States.

Tiny internal cameras (Times of London) Thousands of NHS patients will be given tiny cameras to swallow to check for cancer in a new national trial. The technology, in a pill-sized capsule, takes images as it passes through the bowel and beams them to a recording device worn on a belt and shoulder bag. It can then be flushed away. Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that the “ingenious” capsule cameras would allow more people to undergo cancer investigations quickly and safely.

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COVID19 UPDATES 04/06/2020

SEMI-REAL-TIME COVID19 NUMBERS: LINK

MORNING:

UK: Chilling photos reveal new morgue built to hold 5,000 coronavirus victims LINK

RUMINT (Missouri): Good night all, I'm off to bed. Before I go, some familial intel from the medical world. Things are picking up in the St Louis, MO area, increasing numbers of hospital admissions every day. One hospital has already reached its limit on vents available, more will quickly follow. I'm sorry I can't give more details, but you know the drill. Take it or leave it.

RUMINT (New York): As someone living in NY and knowing an unfortunate amount of people who are sick I believe hospitalizations are down because positive Covid patients are staying at home as long as they possibly can. It’s not until they can’t breathe AT ALL that they are going to the hospital. They are also sending patients home with oxygen instead of keeping them hospitalized.

Andorra: The small nation of Andorra will now test all 77.000 citizens for the #COVID19-virus - Will also give a good indication how many people in Southern Europe are infected by now

Ivory Coast: Crowd in Ivory Coast destroys coronavirus testing center in residential area LINK

Russia: Breaking. A big jump in cases overnight in Russia - 954 overall - despite 8 days of strict lockdown. This is up from 658 yesterday

World: Mysterious Heart Damage, Not Just Lung Troubles, Befalling COVID-19 Patients LINK

Iran:  There are more than 60,000 cases of infection with the new coronavirus in Iran, which makes it the country in the Middle East most affected. In the last 24 hours alone, 2,274 more cases of contagion emerged, bringing the total to 60,500. The data were released this Monday by the spokesman of the Minister of Health of that country. The same source confirmed the existence of another 136 deaths, bringing the number of deaths to 3,739. So far, 24,237 patients have recovered from the disease.

China: Here Comes Round Two: China Just Reported The Most New Covid Cases In A Month LINK

NYC: NEW: Chair of #NYC City Council health committee suggesting that temporary mass graves -- "10 caskets in a line" -- will be dug in "a NYC park."

South Korea: Fifty-one recovered coronavirus patients test positive AGAIN in South Korea amid fears the deadly infection may be able to hide in human cells and reactivate. Patients were put in quarantine in Daegu after being diagnosed with coronavirus. Tested positive again days after being released, according to Korean officials. Health chiefs in South Korea believe the virus may lay dormant in cells in body

AFTERNOON:

India: Paper detailing similarities between COVID19 and HIV. LINK

Italy: ITALY DEATH TOLL FROM CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK RISES BY 636 TO 16,523 -OFFICIAL. TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES OF CORONAVIRUS IN ITALY RISES TO 132,547 FROM 128,948 ON SUNDAY - OFFICIAL

New York: CUOMO: DEATHS 'EFFECTIVELY FLAT' FOR TWO DAYS, SUGGESTING POSSIBLE FLATTENING OF THE CURVE

World: BREAKING: WHO says the coronavirus can spread one to three days before symptoms start LINK

New York:  NEW: @NYGovCuomo says drug trials in the hospitals of hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax have has positive results, anecdotally, but not conclusive.

UK: UK exceeds 5,000 deaths and 50,000 infected. For every 1000, 104 (10.5%) died

France: France registers 833 new coronavirus deaths, bringing total deaths to 8,911

China: Travelers who fail to reveal real personal health conditions will be deemed as untrustworthy and blacklisted from accessing financial markets along with traveling by air or train amid the #COVID19 pandemic: Chinese customs

New Jersey: New Jersey: Governor UPDATE: We’ve received 3,663 positive #COVID19 test results since yesterday, bringing the statewide total to 41,090. Sadly, we must report another 86 deaths due to #COVID19 related complications. Our statewide total has now eclipsed 1,000, and sits at 1,003.

UK: URGENT: BBC's POLITICAL EDITOR TWEETS PM BORIS JOHNSON HAS BEEN TAKEN INTO INTENSIVE CARE

India: Breaking: PROTESTS AGAINST CORONAVIRUS TAKING PLACE IN INDIA

UK: Downing Street spokesperson: "Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit"

Michigan: 110 new deaths from #COVID19 in Michigan. The death rate among confirmed cases is now 4.2%. 41% of deaths are African Americans. They make up 14% of Michigan's population 193 deaths in Detroit (29% of total cases; 26.5% of deaths) 185 in Oakland 153 in suburban Wayne County

France: France has reported 833 deaths in 24 hours, its highest since the outbreak began.

Spain: Two million masks and medical supplies stolen in #Santiago de Compostela #Spain

Illinois: Illinois has confirmed more than 1,000 additional cases of COVID-19 in statewide, including 33 more deaths as of Monday.

UK: Pound sterling PLUNGES after PM Johnson moved to ICU due to Covid-19

US: Trump Admin considering another stimulus plan in mid May for approximately $1-$1.5 trillion - FBN

US: Hospitals report severe shortages of #coronavirus testing supplies and extended waits for test results that limited their ability to monitor health of patients and staff, according to @HHSGov IG. 

EVENING:

World: Coronavirus Deaths “Top 10″: Italy: 16,523 Spain: 13,169 US: 10,662 France: 8,911 UK: 5,373 Iran: 3,739 China: 3,331 Netherlands: 1,867 Germany: 1,695 Belgium: 1,632

World: HIDDEN KILLER Fears, that coronavirus can HIDE in cells and reactivate later after 51 recovered patients test positive again The 51 cases were identified as part of a study conducted in Daegu, the epicentre of the outbreak in South Korea, by a team of epidemiologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The center said it did not believe the patients had been reinfected, but that the virus had remained at undetectable levels in their cells and later "reactivated". The claim runs contrary to the bulk of current evidence about how the virus works.

NYC: DOD confirms that several patients on the USNS Comfort hospital ship turned out to have COVID-19 - medics on the ship are taking care of those patients now

UK: BREAKING - 'Very likely' PM Boris Johnson will go on a ventilator, says Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging at UCL, due to the worsening #COVID19 symptoms.

California: LA County's Dr. Christina Ghaly emphasizing how important this week will be: "We'll work closely in watching the numbers of COVID-19 this week as this is a critical week in helping to understand what the curve and the trajectory of this pandemic will be."  The reason this week is so worrisome is because there are now over 6,000 confirmed cases in L.A. County, so there's just a lot of people who could get other people sick, Ferrer said. "Without everyone taking every possible precaution, our numbers can start skyrocketing."

Canada: TOTAL OF 3.18 MILLION CANADIANS HAVE APPLIED FOR ALL FORMS OF EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE SINCE MARCH 16TH - RTRS

US: “Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies across the country

Egypt: Egypt reported 149 new cases of coronavirus infection, the highest number in a single day since it confirmed the country's first Covid-19 case in February. 

Singapore: Main airport terminal suspends operations for next 18 months. LINK

New Jersey:  US PRESIDENT TRUMP: SAYS NEW JERSEY IS ALSO GOING TO USE THE HOSPITAL SHIP BECAUSE NEW JERSEY IS ALSO A HOT SPOT. "IT'S A BIG SHIP, AND IT'S NOW COVID, IT'S SET FOR COVID, AND...HOPEFULLY...THAT WILL BE VERY HELPFUL TO BOTH STATES."

Brazil: Brazil has 553 dead and 12,056 confirmed cases. The death toll in Brazil in the last 24 hours as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic was 67, thus bringing the total number of deaths to 553 since the outbreak began, the Brazilian government said today.

Iowa: Iowa Tyson pork plant shut down. Over 20 workers tested positive.. LINK

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Shock, uncertainty as I Coast begins mourning for PM Coulibaly | Ivory Coast News

Shock, uncertainty as I Coast begins mourning for PM Coulibaly | Ivory Coast News

Moments before his sudden death, Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly appeared upbeat as he entered a cabinet meeting.

Chosen by the governing party as its candidate in a presidential election some four months away, he had just tweeted: “To have a vision is not about short term political gains but careful planning for decades to come.”

But the 61-year-old, who returned to Ivory…

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Ivory Coast PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly dies after cabinet meeting

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Image caption Amadou Gon Coulibaly had just returned from heart treatment in France

Ivory Coast’s PM Amadou Gon Coulibaly has died after falling ill at a ministerial meeting.

The 61-year-old had been chosen as the ruling party’s candidate for October’s presidential election, after Alassane Ouattara said he would not seek a third term in office.

Mr Gon Coulibaly had only just returned from France where he had received two-months’ heart treatment.

President Ouattara said the country was in mourning.

He said Mr Gon Coulibaly had become unwell during a weekly cabinet meeting and was taken to hospital where he later died.

His death creates huge uncertainty over the election.

Mr Gon Coulibaly had received a heart transplant in 2012 and had travelled to Paris on 2 May for the insertion of a stent.

He returned last Thursday saying: “I am back to take my place by the side of the president, to continue the task of developing and building our country.”

Mr Gon Coulibaly was among the favourites to win the presidential election.

An article in Le Monde on Monday quoted one foreign observer as saying: “If Gon Coulibaly were unfit, Ouattara would have no choice but to run as a candidate because there is no plan B.

“This matter has so far remained taboo because the president has clearly shown his willingness to leave and indicated who his choice was to succeed him.”

Mr Ouattara’s decision in March not to run stunned the country.

At the time, the BBC’s James Copnall wrote from the main city, Abidjan, that there was praise from politicians as Mr Ouattara broke the normal mould for the region of trying to remain in power.

How Ivory Coast’s president stunned West Africa

Even then it was clear that Mr Gon Coulibaly would be backed as the successor candidate.

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Key facts: Alassane Ouattara

Bornon New Year’s Day in 1948

Member of the Islamic faith

MarriedFrench businesswoman Dominique Folloroux in 1991

PhD in economics and worked for IMF

Sworn in as president on 6 May 2011 after years in opposition

Source: BBC

Mr Ouattara’s supporters say he has brought economic growth, stability and a renewed standing for Ivory Coast on the international stage.

But opposition politicians ��� and many Ivorians – say that the president has not done enough to bring the nation together, and heal the wounds of the bitter conflict that divided Ivory Coast and then brought him to power.

Around 3,000 people are thought to have died in the war sparked by candidate Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to accept he had lost the 2010 elections to Mr Ouattara, before troops loyal to the current president arrested Mr Gbagbo in April 2011.

The long-running political disputes between him, Mr Ouattara and another former president, Henri Konan Bédié, have been disastrous for Ivory Coast.

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Saturday, November 21, 2020

Biden turns 78, will be oldest U.S. president (AP) President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In exactly two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice. As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: Demonstrate to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job. Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989 when he was 77 years and 349 days old. The campaign has made the case that Biden isn’t your average septuagenarian. His physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, reported that Biden works out five days a week. The president-elect told supporters that during the pandemic he has relied on home workouts involving a Peloton bike, treadmill and weights.

C.D.C. Pleads With Americans to Stay Home on Thanksgiving (NYT) Faced with a seemingly unstoppable surge in coronavirus infections, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged Americans to avoid travel for Thanksgiving and to celebrate only with members of their immediate households—a message sharply at odds with a White House eager to downplay the threat. The plea, delivered at the first C.D.C. news briefing in months, arrived as many Americans were packing their bags for one of the most heavily traveled weeks of the year. It is the first time that the agency has warned people away from traditional holiday celebrations.

California enacts coronavirus curfew for majority of state's 40m residents (The Guardian) California is imposing a curfew affecting nearly all of its 40 million residents beginning this weekend, as the state tries to control a surge in coronavirus cases. The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, announced what officials are describing as a limited stay-at-home order on Thursday, saying that all nonessential work and gathering must stop from 10 pm to 5 am. The order will apply to the 41 counties currently in the most restrictive tier of reopening rules, which accounts for 94% of the state’s 40 million residents. The order will last until 21 December, but could be extended if infection rates and disease trends don’t improve.

Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so (AP) Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so amid concerns about the lingering physical and psychological scars on survivors. José Luis Alomía Zegarra, Mexico’s director of epidemiology, announced late Thursday that Mexico had 100,104 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, behind only the United States, Brazil and India. Besides the trauma of the deaths, many coronavirus survivors say the psychosis caused by the pandemic is one of the most lasting effects. With little testing being done—Mexico tests only people with severe symptoms and has performed only around 2.5 million tests in a country of 130 million—and a general fear of hospitals, many in Mexico are left to home remedies and relatives’ care.

They Championed Venezuela’s Revolution. They Are Now Its Latest Victims. (NYT) The host of a popular radio show, “The People’s Combat,” had always diligently praised Venezuela’s governing Socialist Party, even as millions sank into penury under its rule. But when acute gasoline shortages paralyzed his remote fishing town this summer, he strayed from the party line. On his show, the host, lifelong Socialist José Carmelo Bislick, accused local party chiefs of siphoning fuel, leaving most people queuing for days outside empty gasoline stations. Just weeks later, on Aug. 17, four masked, armed men burst into Mr. Bislick’s house and told him he had “run the red light,” before beating him in front of his family and hauling him away into the night. He was found dead with gunshot wounds hours later. His death appears to be part of a wave of repression against leftist activists alienated by President Nicolás Maduro, who seems intent on consolidating power in parliamentary elections in December. Longtime government supporters who in recent months flooded the streets of provincial towns to denounce the collapse of public services have been suppressed by security forces. Public employees who denounce corruption are charged with sabotage. Members of the ruling electoral alliance who decided to run as independents are disqualified. Those who persevere are harassed by the police or charged with spurious crimes.

Black man’s death after savage beating by security guards outrages Brazil (Washington Post) A Black man died after being savagely beaten by two supermarket security guards in southern Brazil late Thursday, igniting widespread outrage in a country increasingly grappling with structural racism and the violent treatment of Black Brazilians by security forces. Video shows a man identified as João Alberto Silveira Freitas, 40, being held by one of the security guards as another struck him repeatedly in the face outside the entrance of a Carrefour grocery store in the city of Porto Alegre. The man can be heard crying out, and he is forcefully brought to the blood-slicked ground and restrained. Video afterward shows emergency responders failing to resuscitate him. In a country increasingly reckoning with racism and the enduring imprint of its history of colonialism and slavery, the grisly beating of an unarmed Black man by two security guards reported to be White was met by rage and horror. It immediately dominated newscasts and the homepages of the country’s biggest newspapers. Activists planned protests. Politicians on both the left and right expressed condemnation. Many said it was disturbing that the death occurred on the eve of Brazil’s Black Consciousness Day.

Lawmakers seek to buttress post-Brexit Britain as a financial centre (Reuters) Britain’s lawmakers launched an inquiry on Friday aimed at ensuring its financial services remain globally competitive after the country’s full departure from the European Union next month. Britain left the EU last January and full access to the bloc under transition arrangements ends on Dec. 31, with 7,500 jobs and assets worth around a trillion pounds having already left the City of London for new EU financial hubs.

Vatican seeks answers (Foreign Policy) The Vatican has appealed to Instagram for answers after the account belonging to Pope Francis appeared to click “like” on a racy picture posted by Brazilian model Natalia Garibotto. “We can exclude that the ‘like’ came from the Holy See, and it has turned to Instagram for explanations,” a Vatican spokesperson told the Guardian. Divine intervention has been ruled out in the case of the mysterious like; the Pope is, however, known to have a social media team that assists in his earthly outreach efforts. Garibotto herself has seen the lighter side of the mini-scandal. “At least I’m going to heaven,” she said.

Trump and Pompeo embrace Israel’s one-state reality (Washington Post) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid the capstone this week on the Trump administration’s four-year ideological project in Israel. Pompeo made an unprecedented visit to settlements located in the West Bank and the Golan Heights, marking the first time a U.S. secretary of state has appeared at such sites, which much of the world views as illegal and, in many instances, a direct obstacle to a viable Palestinian state. At an event alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Pompeo also said the Trump administration would be taking further measures aimed at “countering” the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, or BDS, which seeks to pressure companies and governments to avoid doing business with Israel until it offers more concessions to Palestinians living under occupation. “The Trump folks have done all sorts of things to blur the lines between Israel and the West Bank and effectively adopt a one-state policy,” tweeted Michael Koplow of the Israel Policy Forum, “but this may be the measure that goes the farthest in that regard.”

Deadly Protests Erupt in Uganda After Arrest of 2 Opposition Figures (NYT) The national police in Uganda said Thursday that at least 16 people had been killed and hundreds arrested in protests that erupted across the country after two presidential candidates were arrested while campaigning ahead of a highly anticipated January election. The violence began Wednesday as word of the arrests spread in the East African nation, where President Yoweri Museveni is vying for a record sixth term in office. The unrest in Uganda echoes recent election-related violence in other African countries, including Guinea, Tanzania and Ivory Coast, where opposition figures accused entrenched leaders of having manipulated the rules and rigged the polls in order to extend their stay in power. Although Mr. Museveni is credited with bringing peace, promoting economic growth and reducing rates of AIDS, his government has faced criticism over growing corruption, widespread surveillance tactics and intolerance of dissent.

Bad Passwords (Vice) The password manager NordPass released its annual report about the state of passwords, and things are not great on the creativity and innovation front. The most popular password was “123456,” which was used 2,543,285 times per the analysis. Of the 275,699,516 passwords in their database, 44 percent were unique—showing up just once—though users alone are hardly at fault for the abysmal situation of passwords on the web. The average user has 25 percent more passwords now compared to earlier this year, as a shift to life online means that in-person events like school, work, and Dungeons & Dragons now necessitate password-protected user accounts for online services.

In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder (AP) U.N. agencies have warned that some 250 million people in 20 countries are threatened with sharply spiking malnutrition or even famine in coming months. The United Nations humanitarian office this week released $100 million in emergency funding to seven countries most at risk of famine—Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Congo, and Burkina Faso. But David Beasley, head of the World Food Program, says billions in new aid are needed. Without it, “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021,” he said in an Associated Press interview last week. In multiple countries, the coronavirus pandemic has added a new burden on top of the impact of ongoing wars, pushing more people into poverty, unable to afford food. At the same time, international aid funding has fallen short, weakening a safety net that keeps people alive.

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A dead body of a 10-year-old child was recovered inside the landing gear of a Boeing 777 aircraft of Air France travelled from Ivory Coast’s Abidjan to Paris, foreign media reported.

The child’s body was recovered at local time at 5:00 pm on Tuesday in the undercarriage of the plane which landed in Paris. One report has suggested that the deceased child was a boy, Mirror.co.uk reported.

Air France confirmed the incident in a statement and expressed its condolences. The airline has also opened an investigation into the death.

The statement read, “Air France confirms that the lifeless body of a stowaway was discovered in the well of the landing gear of the aircraft performing flight AF703 connecting Abidjan (ABJ) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle on January 7, 2020.”

The journey between Abidjan and Paris takes around six hours.

The report said that the instances of stowaways hiding in the interior of commercial jetliners are extremely rare as sub-zero temperatures inside the aircraft are likely to cause exposure and death within minutes of take-off.

Last year, the body of a stowaway was found in the garden of a home near Heathrow Airport after falling from a plane flying from Kenya’s capital Nairobi.

He landed just inches away from a man who had been sunbathing in his garden in Clapham.

The man has not yet been identified but some reports suggest that man was an airport cleaner named Paul Manyasi. He was found with just a rucksack, a pair of trainers, two bottles of drink and a few other small items.

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Former Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote dies after training collapse

Former Ivory Coast international Cheick Tiote died in hospital on Monday after collapsing during a training session, his Chinese club Beijing Enterprises said.

The Chinese second flight club confirmed his death at the age of 30 on its Weibo social media account, saying the former Twente Enschede and Newcastle United midfielder had "fainted without any warning" during training.

"He was rushed to hospital immediately. However, all revival measures proved ineffective and he died around 7 pm on June 5, 2017. The club has already contacted his family," it read.

"Since joining the team, he had made an outstanding contribution to the club and won praise from the club, the coaching team and his teammates with his superb skills and professionalism.

"Beijing BG football club expresses our deepest sorrow following Mr Tiote's passing."

Former teammates and managers took to social media to mourn the loss of the latest high-profile African player to have collapsed and died while playing football.

Newcastle United, where Tiote played for seven years before moving to China, said the club was "devastated" at the news, while manager Rafa Benitez spoke of his "sadness" at the death of "a true professional ... and above all, a great man".

Former England manager Steve McLaren, who coached Tiote at Twente and Newcastle, spoke of Tiote's competitiveness.

"I knew him first as a young player at Twente. He was the toughest player I've ever seen," he told the BBC.

"On the field and in training, he was such a competitor. He wanted to win every game, kick every player and win every tackle.

"He was a winner. I just can't believe it. Some days we would have to pull him out of training because he was such a ferocious competitor, such a winner. He was a warrior and could play too."

Tiote grew up playing football barefoot on the streets of his hometown of Yamoussoukro before moving to Europe with Belgian club Anderlecht in 2005.

He moved to Twente in 2008 and was part of the side which won the Eredivisie title in 2010. He played at the 2010 and 2014 World Cup and was a member of the Ivory Coast squad which won the 2015 African Cup of Nations.

A combative defensive midfielder, Tiote's more than 130 appearances for Newcastle featured many yellow cards but only one goal.

It was a spectacular effort, though, a left-footed volley from well outside the penalty area two minutes from time which secured Newcastle's comeback from 4-0 down to secure a 4-4 draw against Arsenal in February 2011.

Tiote's move to Beijing earlier this year was his second attempt to cash in on the riches on offer in the Chinese Super League after holding talks with Shanghai Shenhua in 2016.

McLaren said Tiote's motivation was to provide for an extended family which, he told one interviewer, included nine brothers and sisters.

"It was his dream to play in China and I was so delighted for him when it happened," McLaren added.

"He loved playing football to look after his family. All the relatives, uncles, aunts, grandparents, they all relied on him to look after them."

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