April 2020

How Beijing Is Reigniting Hong Kong's Protests

How Beijing Is Reigniting Hong Kong’s Protests

April 30, 2020 6:08 pm

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters want to reignite their movement after a coronavirus lockdown lull, angered by a flurry of moves by China to subdue them.

Flashmob rallies have resurfaced in recent days and protesters are calling for a bigger show of force on Friday’s Labour Day holiday.

Violent demonstrations last year paralysed the city of seven million people for months, driven by anger over Beijing chipping away at their freedoms.

China’s communist leaders have only sought to tighten that control during the coronavirus pandemic.

Here is an explainer on how China’s latest tactics are rekindling the pro-democracy movement:

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Germany Bans Hezbollah, Raids Mosques

Germany Bans Hezbollah, Raids Mosques

April 30, 2020 6:07 pm

Germany on Thursday completely banned Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement from carrying out activities on its soil, as police raided mosques and venues linked to the group.

Like the European Union, Germany had until now only outlawed Hezbollah’s military wing while tolerating its political wing.

But in a shift immediately welcomed by the United States and Israel, the German interior ministry said it now considered the entire movement a “Shiite terrorist organisation”.

“Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation deemed responsible for numerous attacks and kidnappings worldwide,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer told Germany’s Bild daily.

The interior minister “has banned the operation of …

France Orders 10 Metres Between Joggers, Cyclists

France Orders 10 Metres Between Joggers, Cyclists

April 30, 2020 6:06 pm

France’s sports ministry said Thursday that joggers and cyclists will have to stay at least 10 metres (33 feet) from one another once stay-at-home orders are lifted on May 11.

The measures are designed to prevent a surge of new coronavirus cases.

Running has become a popular way to get a break from the nationwide lockdown in place since mid-March, since short exercise jaunts close to home are among the handful of accepted reasons for being outside.

But officials have been alarmed by scenes of hundreds of runners crowding sunny sidewalks and promenades in recent weeks, leading Paris authorities to …

Remdesivir - COVID-19 Drug Helping Patients Recover Faster

Remdesivir: COVID-19 Drug Helping Patients Recover Faster

April 30, 2020 6:05 pm

Remdesivir has been shown to speed up recovery times for patients with COVID-19 in a major US-led trial, becoming the first drug with proven benefit against the disease.

Here is what you need to know.

– What is remdesivir? –

Remdesivir is an experimental, broad spectrum antiviral made by US pharmaceutical Gilead Sciences that was first developed to treat Ebola, a viral hemorrhagic fever.

It showed early promise in a primate study in 2016 and was later rolled out for a major trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it was compared against three other medicines.

That study concluded …

China Replies Trump, Denies Meddling In U.S Elections

China Replies Trump, Denies Meddling In U.S Elections

April 30, 2020 2:01 pm
China’s government has responded to allegations made by U.S president Donald Trump that they would try to make him lose his re-election bid.

Trump had earlier said that he believed Beijing wants his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, to win the election to ease the pressure Trump has placed on China over trade and other issues.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a daily briefing, that the Asian country has no interest in interfering in U.S presidential election.

He said; “The U.S. presidential election is an internal affair, we have no interest in interfering in it. We hope the people …

PSG declared champions of France’s Ligue 1

PSG Declared Champions Of France’s Ligue 1

April 30, 2020 1:58 pm
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) were crowned Ligue 1 champions, for the ninth time, on Thursday as France’s football league declared the season.

PSG led the table by 12 points from Marseille when the season was suspended in mid-March because of the coronavirus outbreak, which has gone on to kill more than 24,000 people in France.

The announcement by the LFP comes after Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday that “professional sports leagues, notably football, cannot restart” because of the risks linked to the pandemic.

“There is no ambiguity about this declaration. We needed to make a final decision about this …

No Evidence That Coronavirus Was Man-Made

No Evidence That Coronavirus Was Man-Made

April 30, 2020 1:53 pm

Intelligence agencies in the United States have concluded that the new coronavirus was “not man-made or genetically modified” but say they are still examining whether the origins of the pandemic can be traced to contact with infected animals or an accident at a Chinese lab.

The statement on Thursday from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the clearinghouse for the web of US spy agencies, comes as President Donald Trump and his allies have touted the as-yet unproven theory that an infectious disease lab in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Chinese outbreak, was the source of the global

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16 Kano Almajiris Test Positive For Coronavirus In Kaduna

16 Kano Almajiris Test Positive For Coronavirus In Kaduna

April 30, 2020 1:52 pm
Kaduna State government has confirmed 16 new cases of Coronavirus in the state.

Governor Nasir El-rufai in a tweet on Thursday said all patients were almajiris from Kano.

He wrote, “KDSG has confirmed 16 new COVID-19 cases in the state.

Read Also: Coronavirus Wracks U.S. Prison, Many Inmates Infected

“The new cases, all almajiris from Kano, have raised the number of active COVID-19 cases in Kaduna State from 9 to 25.”

Meanwhile, Nigeria on Wednesday recorded 196 cases of the virus.

Confirmed cases in Nigeria now stand at 1728.

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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European Lockdown Could Avert 11,300 Air Pollution Deaths

European Lockdown Could Avert 11,300 Air Pollution Deaths

April 30, 2020 1:25 pm
Improved air quality in Europe due to lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic has delivered health benefits equivalent to avoiding 11,300 premature deaths, according to a study published on Thursday.

Researchers extrapolated the likely impact on diseases caused or made worse by air pollution, which has fallen dramatically as hundreds of millions of people have stayed at home over the past month.

Read Also: Germany: Dozens Arrested In Anti-Lockdown Protest

“You could compare it to everyone in Europe stopping smoking for a month,” said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA),

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Arabs Speak Out Against Islamophobia In India

Arabs Speak Out Against Islamophobia In India

April 30, 2020 1:22 pm
In the past couple of weeks, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Kuwait government, a royal princess of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as a number of Arab activists have called out Islamophobic hate speech by Indians seen to be accusing the country’s Muslims of spreading the novel coronavirus.

A barrage of tweets and statements from individuals and institutions in the Gulf expressing their outrage over the hateful social media posts forced the Indian government to respond, including a Twitter post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which he stressed that “COVID-19 does not see race [or]

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Drug Hawkers Are Merchants Of Death – NAFDAC Warns

NAFDAC Warns Companies Over Breast Milk Substitutes

April 30, 2020 1:17 pm

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has cautioned companies involved in donation or marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes (BMS).

The agency warned them to keep to the World Health Organisation (WHO) code.

Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director General (DG) of NAFDAC, said this in a statement on Thursday.

Adeyeye stated that substitutes for infants should not be provided through health workers.

She added that breastmilk products must not display company brand as the intervention was not meant for brand promotion.

“Companies that market foods for infants and young children should not provide free products, samples or

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'Surrogacy, Sperm And Egg Donorship Is Against Islam'

‘Surrogacy, Sperm And Egg Donorship Is Against Islam’

April 30, 2020 1:09 pm
A senior lecturer at the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Dr. Muhammad Kamaldeen, has told infertile couples to shun alternative procreation.

The Islamic scholar gave the advice in an online Ramadan lecture on Wednesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

Speaking on parentage and prohibitions, he advised couples to seek other medical treatment.

Kamaldeen called surrogacy, egg and sperm donorship “haram”, explaining that such was against Islam.

“The Islamic Fiqh Council, after reviewing all the research submitted on invitro fertilization and after consulting experts in the field, concluded that five forms of in vitro fertilization are prohibited, while two are

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