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US to resume federal executions after 17 years

US To Resume Federal Executions After 17 Years

June 16, 2020 3:35 pm

The United States will resume federal executions on July 13, after a 17-year stay, the Justice Department said Monday.

There have been just three federal execution since the death penalty was reinstated by the US government in 1988.

Attorney General Bill Barr announced a year ago he intended to resume the use of the death penalty for federal crimes. Five convicted murderers were scheduled to undergo lethal injections in December 2019 and January of this year at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

But at the last minute, the US Supreme Court refused to lift a stay on federal …

Brazil Topples Britain For World’s 2nd Highest Virus Death Toll

Brazil Topples Britain For World’s 2nd Highest Virus Death Toll

June 13, 2020 6:39 am
Brazil on Friday claimed the unenviable position of having the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world behind the United States, where there is a resurgence of cases.

As at 23:00 GMT on Friday, Brazil has logged 41,901 deaths, more than Britain’s 41,481 deaths.

Brazil also appears to be racing to the one million mark in confirmed cases as it already hit 829,902 cases.

On Friday alone, the South American country recorded 24,253 as at the time of this report.

Read Also: WHO Warns Coronavirus Spreading From African Cities To Hinterland

The figure is slightly lower than the world …

US pledges to reduce Iraq troops as tensions ease

US Pledges To Reduce Iraq Troops As Tensions Ease

June 12, 2020 4:14 pm

The United States said Thursday it would reduce troops in Iraq in the coming months as friction between the two countries eased under a new US-friendly premier in Baghdad.

The United States also promised support to prop up the struggling Iraqi economy as the two nations held their first strategic dialogue in more than a decade.

Tensions skyrocketed following a US strike on Baghdad in January that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, with lawmakers in Baghdad demanding the expulsion of the roughly 5,200 US troops in the country.

President Donald Trump responded by …

North Korea denounces US two years after Singapore summit

North Korea Denounces US Two Years After Singapore Summit

June 12, 2020 2:10 pm

North Korea criticised Donald Trump in a stinging denunciation of the United States on Friday, the second anniversary of a landmark summit in Singapore where the US president shook hands with leader Kim Jong Un.

It was the latest in a series of vitriolic statements from Pyongyang aimed at both Washington and Seoul, and came a day after the North implicitly threatened to disrupt November’s election if the US did not stay out of inter-Korean affairs.

In recent days, Pyongyang has excoriated the South over defectors launching leaflets criticising Kim into the North and announced it was cutting all official …

Shuttered Zoom accounts raise China free speech fears

Shuttered Zoom Accounts Raise China Free Speech Fears

June 11, 2020 4:52 pm

Several Zoom meetings involving Chinese users were “disrupted,” the video messaging app acknowledged Thursday, after activists in the United States and Hong Kong revealed discussions on the platform of Beijing’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown had been closed down.

The disclosure has sparked concerns that the American app, which has soared in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, is bowing to the demands of authoritarian China at the expense of users in places where free speech is protected.

Unlike competitors such as Google and Facebook, Zoom is not banned in communist China, which uses its “Great Firewall” to scrub its internet and censor …

Trump COVID-19 Excuse - U.S. Worst-Hit Because It Tested More

Trump COVID-19 Excuse: U.S. Worst-Hit Because It Tested More

June 7, 2020 2:29 pm
President Donald Trump said India and China would have had higher COVID-19 cases than the United States if they had conducted more tests.

Speaking at a medical manufacturing facility in Maine, Trump Friday claimed the US had tested over 20 million samples for the disease so far.

The US is the worst-hit by the pandemic, in terms of both deaths and infections.

The country has reported nearly 1.9 million cases and over 109,000 fatalities, according to the data by Johns Hopkins.

India, on the other hand, has reported 236,657 cases and 6,642 deaths.

China, where the coronavirus was first detected, …

U.S. Cities Extend Curfews, Deploy Soldiers As Street Anger Mounts

U.S. Cities Extend Curfews, Deploy Soldiers As Street Anger Mounts

June 1, 2020 4:56 am

Dozens of cities across the United States extended curfews through Sunday night and many deployed National Guard soldiers, amid continuing unrest on the streets.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets again on Sunday after days of protests over the death of George Floyd.

Scenes of looting and arson emerged in the evening and the Police increasingly militarised their response.

In Los Angeles and nearby cities, looting was taking place by Sunday evening.

Read Also: George Floyd: State Of Emergency Declared In Los Angeles

Multiple fires broke out in Washington as protests continue in front of the White …

AfDB Chief, Adesina Reveals How Nigeria Can Be Restructured

Corruption At AfDB: U.S. Rejects Adesina’s Exoneration

May 25, 2020 10:28 am

The United States has rejected the clean bill given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina by the African Development Bank (AfDB) ethics committee, over corruption allegations.

Instead, the U.S. has called for an independent probe, thus upending AfDB’s board decision to end an investigation against Adesina.

In a letter dated May 22 and addressed to Niale Kaba, chairwoman of the bank’s board of governors, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Treasury disagreed with findings by the bank’s ethics committee that “totally exonerated” Adesina.

Kaba confirmed receipt of the document and declined further comment, according to Bloomberg.

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NYTimes marks grim US virus milestone with front page victim list

NYTimes Marks US Virus Milestone With Front Page Victim List

May 24, 2020 5:16 pm

As the United States approached 100,000 coronavirus deaths, The New York Times on Sunday marked the grim milestone with a stark memorial on its front page — one-line obituaries for 1,000 victims.

“The 1,000 people here reflect just one percent of the toll. None were mere numbers,” the newspaper said in a short introduction on the front page, which was entirely covered in text.

The United States has been the hardest-hit country in the coronavirus pandemic by far, in deaths and number of infections.

As of Saturday evening, the US had recorded 97,048 deaths and 1.6 million cases of the …

China warns US pushing relations to 'brink of new Cold War'

China Warns US Pushing Relations To ‘Brink Of New Cold War’

May 24, 2020 4:14 pm

The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War”, China’s foreign minister said Sunday, rejecting Washington’s “lies” over the coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international effort to find its source.

Keeping up the worsening war of words with Washington over the pandemic and a Beijing move to tighten control over Hong Kong, Wang Yi said the United States had been infected by a “political virus” compelling figures there to continually attack China.

“It has come to our attention that some political forces in the US are taking China-US relations hostage …

COVID-19 Death Toll Doubles In Four Weeks, Hits 90,000

US: COVID-19 Death Toll Doubles In 4 Weeks, Hits 90,000

May 17, 2020 4:53 pm

Just short of one month after the coronavirus death toll in United States topped 40,000, the figure has more than doubled.

On April 19, John Hopkins University and Worldometers, put their individual tallies at 40,000.

The fatalities were countrywide, with almost half of them in New York.

As of 0955 hours Nigerian time on May 17, Worldometers put the toll at 90,113.

The Trump administration has been under fire over its handling of the pandemic.

Expectedly, Democratic stalwarts are using the issue to demarket President Donald Trump ahead of the November elections.

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American Children Show Symptoms, Test Positive For Virus

American Children Show Symptoms, Test Positive For Virus

May 6, 2020 3:40 am
Children in the United States are showing symptoms of coronavirus and some already tested positive.

In New York, more than a dozen children have been hospitalised with mysterious syndrome associated with the disease.

Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement on Tuesday in an urgent alert for parents and doctors.

De Blasio disclosed that four of the children tested positive for COVID-19, while six had antibodies, suggesting they had been infected with the virus.

He tweeted: “We’ve detected 15 cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome detected in children in NYC hospitals. 4 patients tested positive for COVID-19 while 6 others had

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