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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed the call by US President Joe Biden to put pressure on China to release raw data relating to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. Johnson’s backing comes as Washington raised concerns over the possibility of the Chinese government’s interference in the recent investigation by the World Health Organisation into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan. In an interview with Face the Nation/CBS News broadcast on Sunday, Johnson said it is vital to get to bottom of how the pandemic originated. “One of the things we’ll be calling for in the G7, which President Biden is going to be joining, I’m glad to say, is the global coordination in getting to the bottom of what happens with these diseases. So when you have a zoonotic plague like the coronavirus, we need to know exactly how it happened,” Johnson said in an interview with CBS News. He added, “Indeed if it’s zoonotic if it really originated from human contact with the animal kingdom, that’s what is asserted. But we need to know exactly what happened. Was it in a wet market? Did it come from the bats? Were the bats associated with the pangolins? All these questions are now matters of speculation. We need to see the data. We need to see all the evidence. So, I thoroughly support what President Biden has said about that.” This comes after Jake Sullivan, US National Security Adviser said that Washington has “deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them.” He stressed on the importance of an investigation that is “free from intervention or alteration by the Chinese government” into the origin of COVID-19. While Biden has moved to re-join the WHO, the US had recently refused to accept the latest findings by the global health body and said it will independently verify the results using its own intelligence. Weeks after a team of WHO experts launched a probe into the origin of the COVID-19 in Wuhan, the global health body said that there is no evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China. - (ANI)
He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
At the moment, we’re blaming each other for voting the wrong way, and we’re being chided by both parties for not throwing more votes in their direction.
Just in time for the Holidays, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey follows toymaker Jeronicus Jangle (played by Forest Whitaker). Narrated by Phylicia Rashad as she shares the Christmas story with her grandchildren, Jeronicus Jangle is betrayed by an apprentice, played by Keegan-Michael Key, who steals his most prized invention. Coupled with losing his wife, Jangle … Continued
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A Ball State University survey indicates during the early stages of the pandemic, some people were more likely to wear masks than others. A survey of 838 adults found that the people most likely to mask up were women, older adults, African-Americans, Hispanics, and low-income employees forced to work outside the home. The study found …
Additionally, only five ICU beds remain in Gulfport and none in Biloxi. There are also zero ICU beds available in Southaven.
NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody signed on Monday to a brief aimed at convincing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allowed Pennsylvania elections officials to count some late-arriving absentee ballots. Moody was one of 10 Republicans attorneys general who filed the brief in a challenge to a decision […]
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COVID-19 has forced many non-profit organizations to adjust how they are raising money and how they are assisting the many people in need. During this 2020 gala season, nearly all fund raisers have been canceled, which for many organizations, would be their largest of the year. Houston Texans’ outside linebacker, Whitney Mercilus, and his WithMerci […]
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President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing... View Article
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By Ben Jealous After four exhausting years of President Donald Trump and four excruciating days of vote counting, the election was called for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday. Hallelujah! Those days of counting felt agonizingly slow to many of us, but the momentum was always on our side: Democratic voters—mostly […]
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… civil rights for women and African-Americans, as well as more support …
Western Bureau: DR Marcia Johnson-Campbell, St James’ medical officer of health, has said the community of Cornwall Courts, which was recently placed under a special area curfew in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases, is currently experiencing a...
In summary Gov. Newsom should recognize the importance of the Latino community and appoint the first Latino or Latina senator from California. By Claudia Medina, Special to CalMatters Claudia Medina is the founding member of the Latino Community Foundation’s East Bay Latina Giving Circle, claudia.medina4education@gmail.com. Come January, California’s own Kamala Harris will make history as […]
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