KIM Jong-un is in “a vegetative state” in a coma following a botched heart operation, according to disputed reports tonight.
The unverified claims – which follow online rumours of his death – emerged as a team of Chinese medical experts reportedly flew in to treat the North Korean despot, who has not been seen in public for two weeks.
Does sunlight rapidly destroy the coronavirus? A White House presentation on a mysterious government study says so — but some scientists have called for caution as we await more evidence.
An official from the Department of Homeland Security made the eye-catching announcement during President Donald Trump’s daily pandemic briefing Thursday, showing a dramatic reduction in the virus’ viability under the sun’s rays.
But the fact there are no further details about how the study was conducted has left some experts scratching their heads.
“It looks like someone did a test somewhere,” Benjamin Neuman, chair of biological sciences at Texas A&M
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to return to work soon after his recovery from COVID-19, as pressure mounts on his government to explain how to get Britain out of lockdown.
Johnson, 55, has been recuperating at the British prime ministerial retreat, Chequers, outside London since his release from hospital on April 12.
He spent three days in intensive care and later admitted that “things could have gone either way”, forcing him to take it easy before returning to the political fray.
But there have been increasing signs his return to Downing Street could be imminent, after officials said he …
The sun is only just rising in Berlin but Lothar Kopp, 65, is already standing in line outside a clinic in the district of Reinickendorf.
Along with a handful of mask-clad people standing two metres apart, he is here to give a blood sample — for antibody tests in the hope of finding out if he has previously contracted the coronavirus and since developed immunity.
“If I’ve already had corona then I’m not infectious,” said Kopp, hoping to test positive for antibodies as it could allow him to visit his elderly mother without the risk of spreading the disease.
As …
Amidst increasing calls for justice for minorities in China, especially blacks being a subject to increased scrutiny and racial attacks for the recent flare-up in coronavirus cases, an Ethiopian diplomat based in China was denied access to a public shop area sparking outrage on social media.
In a video post, Tseday Getachew Girmaye, previously stationed in Jakarta, now a consul with the Ethiopian consulate in Guangzhou, can be seen as she is denied access while others, locals and a white lady were given access to the shopping area.
When asked for a comment, Ethiopian ambassador to China, Teshome Toga Chanaka …
The shooting on Friday evening sparked protests in Mogadishu that continued on Saturday with crowds of young men burning tires and demanding justice.
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There has been growing anger among some residents over alleged abuses by security forces, including beatings while enforcing virus-related restrictions.Shouts of “No police, no curfew” could be heard as protesters took to the streets and damaged a police landmark at
Potchefstroom police are investigating cases of murder and culpable homicide after the bodies of a man and his wife were found dead in separate locations this week.
Police suspect that the husband killed himself by jumping in front of an oncoming truck. They also believe that his wife was strangled.
According to police spokesperson Colonel Adéle Myburgh, officers were summoned to a culpable homicide scene close to Thusong Hospital at about 16:00 on Wednesday, where they discovered the body of the 48-year-old man.
“He was certified dead on the scene by Emergency Medical and Rescue Services (EMRS) personnel,” Myburgh said.…
Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his popular justice minister quit on Friday and accused him of potentially criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak.
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Moro, who won broad public support for jailing corrupt politicians and businessmen as a judge, said he was resigning
Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward says speculation about transfers for “hundreds of millions of pounds this summer” is ignoring the “realities that face the sport” because of the coronavirus pandemic.
United were linked with a £200m move for Tottenham striker Harry Kane and potentially spending a further £130m on England and Borussia Dortmund wide-man Jadon Sancho.
“Nobody should be under any illusions about the scale of challenge facing everyone in football and it may not be ‘business as usual’ for any clubs, including ourselves, in the transfer market this summer,” Woodward said in his opening address to a United …
India has allowed a limited reopening of shops in neighbourhoods and residential areas, a month after the nation went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, officials said.
The federal home ministry announced on Friday that retail shops could start operations from Saturday with a 50-percent reduction in staff, and enforcing appropriate physical distancing, wearing of masks and gloves during work.
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The sale of liquor and other non-essential items will continue to be prohibited, and no shops in large market places, multi-brand and single-brand malls will be allowed
A whale has been washed ashore in Bonny Island, in Rivers State. It was dead and decomposing.
The state of sea creature fuelled suspicions that the waters in the Niger Delta region are massively polluted.
The whale, whose tail and other parts of its body, were already decaying, was discovered by residents of Finima.
It came as oil and gas regulators said they had launched an investigation into the cause of death of thousands of croaker fish, which also washed ashore last week.
The National Oil Spills Detection and Response …
The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) said it has, in collaboration with the organised private sector, distributed over 1000 economic relief packages to indigent HIV patients during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Dr Monsurat Adeleke, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LSACA, on Saturday said the state government in partnership with the Nigerian Business Coalition Against AIDS (NIBUCAA) provided the succor.
Adeleke said that the agency had identified indigent People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PLHIV) among the 78,052 clients in the state and had started providing them palliatives.
According to her, since the commencement of the lockdown, the agency and …
