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Dozens of US Marines in Japan's Okinawa get coronavirus
A few dozen U.S. Marines have tested positive for coronavirus in Okinawa, Japan , officials announced Saturday . United States military officials have told them the two bases have been put into lockdown. Adding to their concern is quarantining of an unidentified number of American service members arriving from the mainland USA for ongoing staff rotations at an off-base hotel due to short... [Full Article...]
Survivors, world leaders, mark 25th anniversary of Srebrenica massacre
Serb forces reburied some of the victims' remains elsewhere in an attempt at a cover-up. Ibisevic, whose second son was also killed in 1995 and remains missing, said it is hard for him to have the funeral this year because close relatives will not be able to attend the funeral due to restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus. [Full Article...]
Judge halts first federal execution in 17 years, citing virus
Chief District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the Southern District of Indiana Friday stayed the execution of Daniel Lee . Jane Magnus-Stinson, chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of IN, agreed to put the execution on hold. [Full Article...]
Capital Witnesses Steep Decline in Active COVID-19 Cases
Appleby told news organizations that the patient, who has not been named, had attended a so-called COVID party prior to contracting coronavirus . "I thought this was a hoax, but it's not". On June 23, the city had witnessed the highest single-day peak of 3,947 cases, but the number has come down steadily since then despite the number of tests increasing. [Full Article...]
Tucker Carlson writer resigns after racist posts revealed
Neff also wrote that he "wouldn't get LASIK from an Asian for free" and commented that "given how exhausted black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep". In his 2018 book, Ship of Fools , Carlson said Neff and others "work on and greatly improve our nightly show on Fox". "Make no mistake, actions such as his can not and will not be tolerated at any time in any pa... [Full Article...]
Singapore's ruling party stung by election results
Voters in Friday's election had also expressed concern about their job prospects and whether their wealthy, small island needs so many foreigners in top paid roles. When the party's share of the vote dipped to about 60 per cent in 2011, which was considered an upset. The Workers' Party took the remaining 10 seats - the most ever held by opposition lawmakers since the city-state's first general e... [Full Article...]
India, China diplomats vow to keep talks on track
The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) was led by joint secretary (East Asia) Naveen Srivastava on the Indian side, while the Chinese team was headed by Hong Liang, director general of the boundary and oceanic department. [Full Article...]
China warns of 'unknown pneumonia' in Kazakhstan
Of all these illnesses, it's only COVID-19 that's out of control because of the particularities of the novel coronavirus. Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of China's CDC, said tonight that he believed the "unknown pneumonia" was highly likely to be Covid-19 "from an epidemiological perspective". [Full Article...]