| Quarantine fiasco allowed 10,000 infected arrivals into the UK Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:17 PM PDT  Failure to introduce quarantine at the start of the coronavirus outbreak led to 10,000 infected people entering the UK, accelerating the spread of disease, an investigation by MPs has found. The all-party home affairs committee said the Government's "inexplicable" decision to lift restrictions on about one million people who arrived in the UK between March 13 and lockdown on March 23 contributed to the pace and scale of the Covid-19 outbreak. They said this "highly unusual approach" to the pandemic contrasted with other countries - from Singapore and New Zealand to Spain - that were introducing more comprehensive measures, including quarantine and self-isolation for international arrivals. Experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the MPs that they calculated up to 10,000 infected people, largely from Spain, France and Italy - including families returning from half-term breaks - imported Covid-19 into the UK. This was confirmed by Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, who pointed to evidence that hundreds of different strains of Covid-19 were brought into the UK after the Government abandoned special measures for international arrivals on March 13. "The UK's experience of Covid-19 has been far worse as a result of the Government's decision not to require quarantine during March, which would have reduced the number of imported infections," said the MPs. "Evidence shows it is highly likely that uncontrolled importations of the virus from European countries contributed to the rapid increase in the spread of the virus in mid-March, and the overall scale of the outbreak in the UK. The failure to have any special border measures during this period was a serious mistake." From mid February until March 13, the Government told arrivals from countries including China, Iran and South Korea to self-isolate even if asymptomatic. For a second category of countries such as Japan and northern Italy, it recommended self-isolation if people developed symptoms. These were abandoned in favour of voluntary "stay at home" guidance until full, legally enforced lockdown was introduced on March 23. But the committee said it did not accept the argument that the introduction of voluntary stay at home guidance for households with possible coronavirus infection on March 13 was enough reason to withdraw all guidance for returning travellers or visitors. A study on Tuesday claimed the price the Government was prepared to pay to save lives was lower than in many other developed nations. Researchers said 20,000 lives in the UK would have been saved if the Government had imposed lockdown three days earlier. They assessed this alongside the financial cost lockdown had and found the "price of life" in the UK was among the lowest at around $100,000.
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| UN experts: North Korea flouts sanctions on nukes, missiles Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:04 PM PDT  U.N. experts say North Korea is flouting U.N. sanctions by expanding its nuclear arsenal and ballistic missile program and by exporting coal and illegally importing refined petroleum products in excess of its annual quota. The experts said in key sections of a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press that North Korea has also evaded sanctions through "targeted" cyber attacks against officials of countries on the U.N. Security Council and on members of its expert panel. In the report to the Security Council, the experts said North Korea has maintained its nuclear facilities and continues to produce fissile material, including highly enriched uranium, that can be used in nuclear weapons.
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| Letter from Africa: How African generosity dried a crying teacher's tears Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:25 PM PDT  Strangers helped a Nigerian teacher, left without money because of coronavirus, get back on his feet.
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| World offers support, condolences to Lebanon after devastating blasts Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:04 PM PDT  Close allies and traditional adversaries of Lebanon paid tribute on Tuesday to the victims of massive, deadly twin blasts in Beirut, as condolences and offers of help poured in. Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab called on "friendly countries" to support a country already reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades and the coronavirus pandemic. UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed his "deepest condolences ... following the horrific explosions in Beirut" which he said had also injured some United Nations personnel.
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| Trump says generals feel Beirut blast was likely an 'attack' Posted: 04 Aug 2020 03:42 PM PDT  President Donald Trump said U.S. military generals have told him that they "seem to feel" the massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people, was a "terrible attack" likely caused by a bomb. Trump was asked why he called it an attack and not an accident, especially since Lebanese officials say they have not determined the cause of the explosion. Trump offered condolences to the victims and said the United States stood ready to assist Lebanon.
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| U.N. chief: World faces 'generational catastrophe' from school closings Posted: 04 Aug 2020 03:06 PM PDT  United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world faces a "generational catastrophe" because so many schools have been closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. "The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the largest disruption of education ever," the U.N. chief said. The pandemic has killed nearly 700,000 people across the globe.
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| Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts Posted: 04 Aug 2020 03:03 PM PDT  In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump was flanked in the White House briefing room by a team of public health experts in a seeming portrait of unity to confront the disease that was ravaging the globe. Trump and his political advisers insist that the United States has no rival in its response to the pandemic. "Right now, I think it's under control," Trump said during an interview with Axios.
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| AP PHOTOS: Terror, death, devastation in Lebanon explosion Posted: 04 Aug 2020 02:01 PM PDT  As they watched a huge mushroom cloud rise over the seaport capital, many who felt the massive explosion in Beirut on Tuesday thought it was a nuclear detonation. Others described the popping and bursting of fireworks and a raging fire that spread to another building, triggering the blast felt kilometers (miles) away. The explosion collapsed balconies, shattered windows and ripped bricks from buildings, killing more than 70 people and injuring more than 3,000.
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| UN pledges to help Mali rebuild heritage sites damaged in conflict Posted: 04 Aug 2020 01:45 PM PDT  Parts of the life and culture of the country's Land of the Dogon have been destroyed in conflict.
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| UNIFIL ship docked in Beirut port was damaged and naval peacekeepers were injured Posted: 04 Aug 2020 01:42 PM PDT |
| Trump encourages mail voting in key battleground Florida Posted: 04 Aug 2020 01:40 PM PDT  In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump now is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice, and only days after threatening to sue Nevada over a new vote-by-mail law. Democrats currently have about 1.9 million Floridians signed up to vote by mail this November, almost 600,000 more than the Republicans' 1.3 million, according to the Florida Secretary of State.
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| Minneapolis mayor: City seeks right mentors for new officers Posted: 04 Aug 2020 12:21 PM PDT |
| 'They're dying … it is what it is': key takeaways from Trump's shocking interview Posted: 04 Aug 2020 11:53 AM PDT  President floundered in conversation with Axios, claiming Covid-19 was 'under control' and attacking mail-in votingDonald Trump stumbled through his second damaging interview in as many weeks, floundering in a conversation with the news website Axios over key issues he is tasked with responding to as president.It's been just over two weeks since the president made a series of shocking statements in a one-on-one interview with Fox News, but he packed another host of extraordinary claims into a 37-minute interview released on Monday night by Axios.Here are the eight most glaring things Trump said to reporter Jonathan Swan. 'It is what it is'In a lengthy discussion about the US's poor response to coronavirus, Trump described the pandemic as "under control".Swan responded: "How? A thousand Americans are dying a day.""They are dying. That's true. And you – it is what it is," Trump said. "But that doesn't mean we aren't doing everything we can. It's under control as much as you can control it." 'You can't do that'The president then appeared unable to distinguish between different measurements of coronavirus deaths.Trump brandished several pieces of paper with graphs and charts."United States is lowest in numerous categories. We're lower than the world. Lower than Europe.""In what?" Swan asked. As it becomes apparent that Trump is talking about the number of deaths as a proportion of confirmed Covid-19 cases, Swan said: "Oh, you're doing death as a proportion of cases. I'm talking about death as a proportion of population. That's where the US is really bad. Much worse than Germany, South Korea."Trump responded: "You can't do that." 'He didn't come to my inauguration'Trump downplayed the work of the congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, whose funeral was held last week in Atlanta, Georgia. Instead of Lewis's legacy, Trump focused on Lewis in relation to himself."I never met John Lewis, actually," Trump said. "He didn't come to my inauguration. He didn't come to my State of the Union speeches, and that's OK. That's his right."Lewis's fight for racial equality includes having his skull broken by state troopers during the 1965 Bloody Sunday march in Alabama. As a congressman he worked across the aisle. 'I did more for the black community than anybody'Swan pressed for an analysis of systemic racism. Trump said: "I have seen where there is a difference and I don't want there to be a difference."When asked why black men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police, the president spoke about how many white people are killed by the police.Then said: "I did more for the black community than anybody with a possible exception of Abraham Lincoln, whether you like it or not."When asked whether he did more than Lyndon B Johnson, who signed into law the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (and the Voting Rights Act in 1965), Trump didn't really answer the question. 'I do wish her well'Trump stood by a 21 July comment where he said "I wish her well" of Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein who faces federal charges for allegedly enabling the disgraced financier's sex trafficking of minor girls.Asked for his thoughts on Maxwell, Trump said, "Yeah, I wish her well. I'd wish you well. I wish a lot of people well." Promotes Epstein conspiracy theoryHe also promoted the conspiracy theory that Epstein was murdered when he died in a New York jail last August. This has been disputed by the attorney general, William Barr."Her boyfriend died in jail and people are still trying to figure out how did it happen, was it suicide, was he killed?" Trump said. "I do wish her well. I'm not looking for anything bad for her." 'Lots of things can happen'Trump again attacked mail-in voting, which is expected to occur at higher rates in the November election because of the pandemic."It could be decided many months later," Trump said. "Do you know why? Because lots of things will happen during that period of time. Especially when you have tight margins, lots of things can happen. There's never been anything like this … Now, of course, right now we have to live with it, but we're challenging it." 'I have heard that, but it has never reached my desk'Trump said reports that Russia had been offering bounties to the Taliban for attacks on US forces in Afghanistan were "fake news". When Swan asked whether Trump had ever discussed the bounties with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, Trump said he had not.When Swan asked Trump about Russia supplying weapons to the Taliban, the president asserted: "I have heard that, but it has never reached my desk."
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| Trump's demand for US cut of a TikTok deal is unprecedented Posted: 04 Aug 2020 11:44 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's demand that the U.S. government get a cut from a potential Microsoft purchase of TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation. Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, a forced sale after Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app, which claims 100 million U.S. users and hundreds of millions globally. The Trump administration says TikTok is a national-security concern.
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| Official: US will extend support for Venezuela's Guaidó Posted: 04 Aug 2020 11:04 AM PDT  The State Department's top official on Venezuela said Tuesday that the Trump administration will continue recognizing lawmaker Juan Guaidó as the South American nation's interim president even if President Nicolás Maduro's government ousts the opposition from control of congress — its last major stronghold. "He will not change the legal status for many countries around the world — and especially for us," Trump's special representative to Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, told the U.S. Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations in a hearing Tuesday. As the body's leader, Guaidó last year claimed the nation's presidency, arguing that Maduro's reelection had been fraudulent, in part because top opposition figures had been banned.
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| COVID-19 measures could disrupt rare polio-like disease Posted: 04 Aug 2020 10:52 AM PDT  Health experts once thought 2020 might be the worst year yet for a rare paralyzing disease that has been hitting U.S. children for the past decade. Dr. David Kimberlin, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, called it "the million-dollar question." "We just simply don't know right now," said Kimberlin, who is co-leader of a national study to gather specimens from children who develop the paralyzing condition.
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| Global Interactive Projectors Industry Posted: 04 Aug 2020 09:44 AM PDT |
| 'Too many are selfish': US nears 5 million virus cases Posted: 04 Aug 2020 09:43 AM PDT  Fourth of July gatherings, graduation parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars — there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts 5 million confirmed infections, easily the highest in the world. Many Americans have resisted wearing masks and social distancing, calling such precautions an overreaction or an infringement on their liberty. Public health experts say the problem has been compounded by confusing and inconsistent guidance from politicians and a patchwork quilt of approaches to containing the scourge by county, state and federal governments.
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| Experts: Obstacles to charging police in Breonna Taylor case Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:59 AM PDT  Despite mounting public pressure to file criminal charges nearly five months after Breonna Taylor's death, prosecutors may face significant obstacles to bringing homicide-related charges against police officers who were shot at when sent to her house with a warrant, legal experts said. Taylor, a 26-year-old Louisville emergency medical tech studying to become a nurse, was shot multiple times March 13 after being roused from sleep by police at her door. Attorney General Daniel Cameron, the first African American elected to the job in Kentucky, has declined to put a timetable on his decision since taking over the case in May.
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| Trump signs $3B-a-year plan to boost conservation, parks Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:47 AM PDT  President Donald Trump signed legislation Tuesday that will devote nearly $3 billion a year to conservation projects, outdoor recreation and maintenance of national parks and other public lands following its overwhelming approval by both parties in Congress. "There hasn't been anything like this since Teddy Roosevelt, I suspect," Trump said, seemingly comparing himself to the 26th president, an avowed environmentalist who created many national parks, forests and monuments that millions of Americans flock to each year.
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| Bodies Strewn on the Ground After Apocalyptic Blast in Beirut Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:46 AM PDT  A huge explosion rocked Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday destroying entire blocks of high-rise buildings and leaving at least 73 people confirmed dead, more than 3,700 wounded, and scores more feared buried under rubble and ash. The country's interior minister said early indications were that highly explosive materials, seized and stored at Beirut's port, had detonated. Footage of the blast showed a large plume of dark red flames and smoke before a massive explosion threw up a mushroom cloud. Powerful shock waves shattered glass, collapsed ceilings and pulled down balconies—even residents on the island nation of Cyprus, 110 miles away, heard the blast.A witness on the ground who works for the United Nations, but does not speak on their behalf, was near the port when the explosion happened. She told The Daily Beast that bodies were scattered from the blast. "There was dark smoke from a fire and then a massive blast and everyone fell to the ground," she said. "A lot of people didn't get up."Entire buildings collapsed, streets glistened under blankets of shattered glass, and injured residents wandered the city covered in blood. Lebanese media carried images of people trapped under rubble. Residents rushed the injured to hospital any way they could, carrying them on their shoulders, on the trunks of cars and on ash-covered pieces of debris."What we are witnessing is a huge catastrophe," George Kettani, head of Lebanon's Red Cross, told local TV network Mayadeen. "There are victims and casualties everywhere."Abbas Ibrahim, director of General Security, told Lebanese media at a press conference that Israel was not to blame for the explosion. He pointed the finger at a depot at the port where highly explosive materials were stored after being confiscated.Local media reports also indicated that the blast may have ripped through a fireworks warehouse. It was not yet clear what ignited a fire that could be seen shortly before the main explosion.CNN's Ben Wedeman, who is based in Beirut, was in the bureau about a kilometer away before the blast. He reported on CNN that people were tweeting photos of a fire in the port about 15 minutes before a massive blast shook the building, destroying the bureau. He described a large red cloud hanging low over the city. "The city is in a state of panic," he said on CNN. "The city is in a state of shock."France 24 correspondent Leila Molana-Allen wrote on Twitter that her apartment was blown apart. "All the buildings in my block are destroyed. Huge explosion in Beirut. Everyone covered in glass and blood," she wrote.Hours after the blast at 6 p.m. local time, fires were still burning in the port district. Hospitals, already buckling under the coronavirus pandemic, were overwhelmed with patients.The blast came as the city braces for the verdict in a long-awaited trial over the assassination of former Sunni prime minister Rafik al-Hariri who was killed in a truck bomb 15 years ago. The defendants, from the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, are being tried in absentia. That verdict is expected Friday. Beirut has been under siege by angry protesters demonstrating against economic strife and alleged corruption since the October Revolution kicked off in the fall of 2019. Daily demonstrations and widespread resignations have crippled the government. Before that, the city buckled under the a civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990. Tuesday's blast was by far the biggest explosion to hit the city since the 2006 war with Israel. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Massive Beirut blast kills more than 70, injures thousands Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:28 AM PDT  A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. For hours after the explosion, the most destructive in all of Lebanon's troubled history, ambulances rushed in from around the country to carry away the wounded. For blocks around the port, where the explosion took place, bloodied residents staggered through streets lined with overturned cars and littered with rubble from shattered buildings.
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| Global Iron Castings Industry Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:24 AM PDT |
| Donald Trump flounders in interview over US Covid-19 death toll Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:21 AM PDT  President again says he is doing 'incredible job' fighting pandemic and casts doubt on Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death * Coronavirus – latest updates * See all our coronavirus coverageDonald Trump visibly floundered in an interview when pressed on a range of issues, including the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the US, his claims that mail-in voting is fraudulent, and his inaction over the "Russian bounty" scandal.The US president also repeatedly cast doubt on the cause of death of Jeffrey Epstein, and said of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who has pleaded not guilty to participating in the sex-trafficking of girls by Epstein, that he wished her well.In the interview, broadcast on HBO on Monday and conducted by Axios's national political correspondent, Jonathan Swan, Trump again asserted that his administration was doing an "incredible job" responding to the coronavirus.Claiming that the pandemic was unique, Trump said: "This has never happened before. Nineteen seventeen, but it was totally different, it was a flu in that case. If you watch the fake news on television, they don't even talk about it, but there are 188 other countries right now that are suffering. Some, proportionately, far greater than we are."Trump has repeatedly referred to the 1917 flu pandemic, whereas the outbreak happened in 1918 and into 1919.And when asked about the death toll from coronavirus so far in the US, of almost 155,000 killed, Trump appeared irritated and said: "It is what it is."His opponent in the upcoming presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden, tweeted on Tuesday morning: "Mr President, step up and do your job before even more American families feel the pain of losing a loved one."Biden also wrote: "On July 1st, Donald Trump predicted the coronavirus was going to 'just disappear.' He was wrong – and more than 25,000 Americans died due to the virus last month."default default Swan pressed the president on which countries were doing worse. Trump brandished several pieces of paper with graphs and charts on them that he referred to as he attempted to suggest the US figures compared well internationally."Right here, United States is lowest in numerous categories. We're lower than the world. Lower than Europe.""In what?" asks Swan. As it becomes apparent that Trump is talking about the number of deaths as a proportion of cases, Swan says said: "Oh, you're doing death as a proportion of cases. I'm talking about death as a proportion of population. That's where the US is really bad. Much worse than Germany, South Korea."Trump then says: "You can't do that."According to figures from Johns Hopkins University, the US has had over 4.7m confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 155,471 deaths. The US accounts for more than a quarter of all global confirmed infections.In another section of the interview, Trump repeats his false assertion that the reason the US has a significantly higher number of cases is because it tests more than anyone else, saying: "You know, there are those that say you can test too much. You do know that."Asked who says that, Trump replies: "Oh, just read the manuals. Read the books."Trump also appears, without evidence, to assert that children are receiving positive Covid-19 test results for having a runny nose – which is not generally listed among the symptoms of coronavirus, which include a high temperature and a new continuous cough."You test, some kid has even just a little runny nose, it's a case. And then you report many cases," Trump says.The president attempts to shift blame for the outbreaks of coronavirus on to state governors, saying: "We have done a great job. We've got the governors everything they needed. They didn't do their job – many of them didn't, some of them did."The actor and activist Mia Farrow tweeted: "Every American should watch this, the full, flabbergasting interview."Trump was also asked about his previous baseless assertion that due to mail-in voting, the forthcoming US election would be "the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history".In the interview, Trump says: "So we have a new phenomena [sic], it's called mail-in voting." Swan then clarifies that mail-in voting has existed since the US civil war.Further attempting to cast doubt on the process, Trump says: "So they're going to send tens of millions of ballots to California, all over the place. Who's going to get them? Somebody got a ballot for a dog. Somebody got a ballot for something else. You got millions of ballots going. Nobody even knows where they're going."The interview took place last Tuesday, before the president's tweet that falsely floated the idea that November's election could be delayed.On Maxwell and Epstein, the president appeared to cast doubt on the official account of the cause of Epstein's death, which has been a repeated source of conspiracy theories.Of Maxwell, Trump says "Her friend or boyfriend Epstein was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She's now in jail. Yeah, I wish her well." Trump goes on twice more to say of Epstein: "Was it suicide or was he killed?"> Trump again wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well pic.twitter.com/whWhZoO4mC> > — Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 4, 2020In another part of the interview, he dismissed again as "fake news" intelligence reports that Russia had been offering bounties to the Taliban for attacks on US forces in Afghanistan. Asked specifically by Swan whether he had ever discussed the issue with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, Trump confirms he has never mentioned it to him.When Swan asks Trump about Russia supplying weapons to the Taliban, the president asserts: "I have heard that, but it has never reached my desk."Lily Adams, a spokeswoman and adviser for the so-called war room of the Democratic party's national committee slammed the president as incoherent and rambling through misinformation."Trump's disastrous interview would be laughable if the stakes weren't so high. More than 155,000 Americans have died, over 4.7 million have been infected, and we are in the sharpest economic downturn on record … coronavirus cases are skyrocketing and the economy is spiraling because of his failed response," Adams said.
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| German public 'unconcerned' at US troop withdrawal Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:10 AM PDT  Most Germans are unconcerned by US plans to withdraw almost 12,000 troops currently stationed in the country, according to a new survey published on Tuesday. Angela Merkel's government has expressed dismay at the move, which Donald Trump said was in response to Germany's failure to pay enough towards the cost of its defence. But a poll by YouGov found 47 per cent of Germans are in favour of reducing the number of American troops based on their soil. Only 32 per cent were opposed to any drop in the US presence, while 21 per cent expressed no opinion on the issue. Most striking of all, a quarter of those surveyed said they would support a complete withdrawal of all US troops from Germany.
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| Global Food Grade Iron Powders Industry Posted: 04 Aug 2020 08:04 AM PDT |
| Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke? Posted: 04 Aug 2020 07:59 AM PDT  Secondhand smoke isn't believed to directly spread the virus, experts say, but infected smokers may blow droplets carrying the virus when they exhale. The respiratory droplets people spray when they talk, cough or sneeze are believed to be the main way the virus spreads. "Not only are they potentially spreading virus by not wearing a mask, they are blowing those droplets to the people around them to potentially get infected," says Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association.
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| UN agency hails 'historic first' with child labor convention Posted: 04 Aug 2020 07:52 AM PDT |
| Global Industrial Valves Market, By Valve Type, By Material Type, By Application, By Product, By Region, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2025 Posted: 04 Aug 2020 07:20 AM PDT  Global Industrial Valves Market, By Valve Type (Globe Valve, Ball Valve, Butterfly Valve, RSV Gate Valve & Others), By Material Type (Steel, Alloy Based, Cast Iron & Others), By Application (Oil & Gas, Refinery, Power Generation, Chemicals, Water & Others), By Product (Multi-Turn Valve, Quarter-Turn Valve & Others), By Region, Competition Forecast & Opportunities, 2025 Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05949195/?utm_source=PRN Global industrial valves market stood at around $ 66 billion in 2019, and is forecast to surpass $ 84 billion by 2025, on account of extensive use of industrial valves in oil & gas and power industries.Other factors expected to boost demand for industrial valves in the coming years include rising number of government initiatives towards wastewater treatment and providing clean water to the citizens, increasing number of commercial construction projects and replacement of aging water pipelines. Moreover, growing focus on the development of high-performance smart valves is anticipated to drive global industrial valves market through 2025. Technological advancements in the production of crude oil and natural gas from new offshore and onshore fields are being witnessed across the globe. Due to such advancements in the global oil & gas sector and rising investments in the construction of pipelines, demand for industrial valves from the oil & gas sector is expected to grow until 2025. Years Considered for this Report: Historical Years: 2015-2018 Base Year: 2019 Estimated Year: 2020 Forecast Period: 2021–2025 Objective of the Study: • To define, classify and forecast the global industrial valves market on the basis of valve type, material type, product, application and regional distribution. • To analyze and forecast global industrial valves market size. • To scrutinize the detailed market segmentation and forecast the market size, in terms of value and volume, and on the basis of region by segmenting global industrial valves market into five regions, namely, North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa and South America. • To analyze and forecast the market size for global industrial valves market with respect to key applications such as oil & gas, power generation, refinery, water, wastewater effluent, etc. • To identify trends, drivers and challenges in the global industrial valves market. • To strategically profile leading players operating in the global industrial valves market. Some of the major players operating in global industrial valves market include Emerson Electric Co., Flowserve Corporation, Alfa Laval Corporate AB, Crane Co., CIRCOR International, Inc., CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION, IMI plc, MRC Global INC, Metso Corporation, Neway Valve (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., The Weir Group PLC, Velan Inc., ITT Inc., INVINCIBLE VALVES (PTY) LTD, Cameron International, L&T; Valves Limited, A.C. VALVES CC, AINSWORTH ENGINEERING (PTY) LTD, AZ Amaturen Pty Ltd, Cobra Isca Pty Ltd, DUAL VALVES (PTY) LTD, eDart Slurry Valves Pty Ltd, MRC Global INC, Floval Pty Ltd , Ithuba Valves, Paltechnologies Pty Ltd, AVK Holdings SA Pty Ltd, RGR Technologies Pty Ltd, and Valco Group SA Pty Ltd., among others. The analyst performed both primary as well as exhaustive secondary research for this study.Initially, the analyst sourced a list of industrial valves providers across the globe. Subsequently, the analyst conducted primary research surveys with the identified companies.While interviewing, the respondents were also enquired about their competitors. Through this technique, the analyst was able to include industrial valves providers which could not be identified due to limitations of secondary research. The analyst also analyzed the product offerings and regional presence of major industrial valves providers across the globe. The analyst calculated the size for global industrial valves market using a bottom-up approach, wherein data for different product types offered (globe valve, ball valve, butterfly valve, RSV gate valve, wedge gate valve, knife gate valve, check valve and diaphragm valve) was recorded and forecast for future years. The analyst sourced these values from industry experts and company representatives and externally validated the same by analyzing historical data of industrial valves, globally in order to arrive at the overall market size. Various secondary sources such as company websites, annual reports, government websites, press releases, company annual reports, white papers, investor presentations and financial reports were also reviewed by the analyst. Key Target Audience: • Industrial valve manufacturers, suppliers and other stakeholders • Major industrial valve end users • Trade associations, organizations, forums and alliances related to industrial valves • Government bodies such as regulating authorities and policy makers • Market research and consulting firms The study is useful in providing answers to several critical questions that are important for industry stakeholders such as industrial valves providers, customers and policy makers. The study would also help them to target the growing segments over the coming years (next two to five years), thereby aiding the stakeholders in taking investment decisions and facilitating their expansion. Report Scope: In this report, global industrial valves market has been segmented into the following categories in addition to the industry trends which have also been detailed below: • Market, by Valve Type: o Globe Valve o Ball Valve o Butterfly Valve o RSV Gate Valve o Wedge Gate Valve o Knife Gate Valve o Check Valve o Automatic Control Valve o Pinch Valve o Diaphragm Valve o Float Valve o Air Valve o Others • Market, by Material Type: o Steel o Alloy Based o Cast Iron o Cryogenic o Others • Market, by Application: o Oil & Gas o Power Generation o Refinery o Water o Wastewater Effluent o Chemicals o Agriculture o Mining o Others • Market, by Product: o Multi-Turn Valve o Quarter-Turn Valve o Others • Market, by Region: o North America • United States • Canada • Mexico o Europe • Russia • Germany • Italy • UK • France • Rest of Europe o Asia-Pacific • China • Japan • India • South Korea • Australia • Rest of Asia-Pacific o Middle East & Africa • Saudi Arabia • UAE • Iran • Nigeria • Egypt • Kuwait • Angola • South Africa • Morocco • Rest of Middle East & Africa o South America • Brazil • Argentina • Venezuela • Rest of South America Competitive Landscape Competition Benchmarking: Benchmarking of leading 30 players on the basis of market share. Company Profiles: Detailed analysis of the major companies present in the industrial valves market. Available Customizations: With the given market data, we offers customizations according to a company's specific needs. The following customization options are available for the report: • 5 more players in the global market.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p05949195/?utm_source=PRN About Reportlinker ReportLinker is an award-winning market research solution. Reportlinker finds and organizes the latest industry data so you get all the market research you need - instantly, in one place. Contact Clare: clare@reportlinker.com US: (339)-368-6001 Intl: +1 339-368-6001
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| Virus ravages poor California county along Mexican border Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:55 AM PDT  Dr. Tien Vo's last stop of the night is the home of a 35-year-old woman who has diabetes, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and, now, the coronavirus. Tilted back in a reclining chair at her bedside using an oxygen device, Cynthia Reyes tells the doctor she can no longer stand up herself. Until recently, it had the state's highest coronavirus infection rate and its two hospitals were overwhelmed.
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| Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa vows to 'flush out' opponents Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:51 AM PDT  Emmerson Mnangagwa accuses the opposition of trying to destabilise the country.
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| Worries about 2020 census' accuracy grow with cut schedule Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count's deadlines stalls in Congress. The Census Bureau said late Monday that the door-knocking and ability for households to respond either online, by phone or by mail to the questionnaire will stop at the end of September instead of the end of October so that it can meet an end-of-the-year deadline to turn in numbers used for redrawing congressional districts. Census experts, academics and civil rights activists worry the sped-up count could hurt its thoroughness and produce inaccurate data that will have lasting effects through the next decade.
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| Court OKs extradition of man linked to Venezuela's Maduro Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:44 AM PDT  A court in the West African nation of Cape Verde has approved the extradition to the United States of a Colombian businessman wanted on suspicion of money laundering on behalf of Venezuela's socialist government, his lawyers said Tuesday. The court made the decision to extradite Alex Saab on Friday, but his legal team said in a statement it was informed about the decision only on Monday. Saab was arrested in June when his private jet stopped to refuel in the former Portuguese colony on the way to Iran.
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| Global Laminated Busbar Industry Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:44 AM PDT |
| Biden tells Trump to 'do your job' as coronavirus fails to 'just disappear' Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:43 AM PDT  * President repeated a month ago that Covid-19 would go away * Democrat says virus has killed 25,000 Americans sinceThe presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden, told Donald Trump "to step up and do your job" on Tuesday, highlighting that it had been a month since Trump most recently predicted the coronavirus would "just disappear"."He was wrong – and more than 25,000 Americans died due to the virus last month," Biden tweeted on Tuesday morning. "Mr President, step up and do your job before even more American families feel the pain of losing a loved one."More than 4.7 million people in the US have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and at least 155,471 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. While the US is home to 4% of the world's population, the country accounts for more than a quarter of global confirmed infections.More than 30 million Americans are unemployed because of the business closures to stop the spread of coronavirus. The White House and Congress are negotiating a new economic relief package, but two key relief measures ended last week, leaving millions of families with a sudden drop in income and fewer protections from evictions.Amid these colliding crises, Trump on Monday floundered in an interview with the Axios news site, where he repeatedly insisted the US was doing better than other countries, brandishing several pieces of paper with charts to make his point.Axios's national political correspondent, Jonathan Swan, then realized Trump was talking about how many deaths the US has had in relation to identified cases. Swan then explained the deaths as a proportion of the population was where the US was doing badly in comparison with the rest of the world. Trump responded: "You can't do that."Covid-19 deaths rose for a fourth week in a row to more than 8,500 people in the seven-day period that ended Sunday, according to a Reuters analysis.A surge in cases has been identified in midwestern states for the first time while fewer cases and hospitalizations were recorded in some of the country's most populated states: Arizona, Florida, Texas and California.California has had more cases identified than anywhere in the country, but Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday the weekly average of cases was down 21% from the previous week. He also cautioned it was too early to celebrate."This virus is not going away," Newsom said. "It's not going to take Labor Day weekend off or Halloween off or the holidays off. Until we have a vaccine, we are going to be living with this virus."The nation's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, on Monday praised the state of Connecticut, which has one of the lowest infection rates in the country, because of its slow, staggered reopening process. "You are in a situation that you now, in many respects, have the upper hand, because you have such a low rate that when you do get new cases, you have the capability of containment as opposed to mitigation," Fauci said.New York, which has also been slow to reopen compared with much of the rest of the country, also had a case positivity rate lower than 1% this past weekend. But the densely populated state and its neighbor New Jersey have seen an increase in cases in recent days.The disparate situations across the country prompted teachers from dozens of school districts, including Chicago, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, to lead protests from their cars on Monday asking for instruction to be online in the fall.Health experts have warned the decision to return to in-person instruction must first prioritize the safety of school staff and students. The Trump administration has been aggressive in its push to force all the country's schools to open for instruction in the fall, however."OPEN THE SCHOOLS!!!" Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning.About 260 employees of a school district in Gwinnett county, Georgia, have either tested positive for Covid-19 or are quarantining because of possible exposure after returning to work last week to prepare for the start of the school year. Hundreds of the school district's teachers had asked to be able to work from home for the fall. The school district said the cases were mostly from community spread.The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, on Tuesday said at least 40 million children were missing out on education and urged schools to reopen once local transmission of coronavirus was under control.Guterres warned the world faced "a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities".Deaths in the US have disproportionately affected black, Latino and Native communities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The resulting economic crisis has also affected women more than men, for the first time in the history of a US economic crisis.When employment figures rebounded slightly in May, they did so for every population except black women, one in six of whom were unemployed that month, according to an analysis by the National Women's Law Center.To address the financial crisis, the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, and White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, are due to meet again with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate respectively, on Tuesday. It is unclear if the parties will be able to reach a deal before the Senate is scheduled to take a month-long recess at the end of the week.
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| Vaccine Confronts Humanity With Next Moral Test Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:21 AM PDT |
| U.N. Chief Calls for Students to Go Back to School Once Safe Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:17 AM PDT  The United Nations' chief says the world must take steps now to combat a learning crisis amid school closures. "Now we face a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced a policy brief Tuesday called "Save our Future."
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| U.N. Chief Warning Of 'Generational Catastrophe' Amid School Closures Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:17 AM PDT The United Nations' chief says the world must take steps now to combat a learning crisis amid school closures. "Now we face a generational catastrophe that could waste untold human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate entrenched inequalities," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced a policy brief Tuesday called "Save our Future."
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| County pledges probe into health worker's coronavirus death Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Officials in a Maryland county say they "will spare no time or expense" investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a veteran public health worker who died of COVID-19 after relatives and coworkers believe she contracted the virus on the job. The probe follows a story by Kaiser Health News and The Associated Press two weeks ago focusing on the worker, Chantee Mack, a 44-year-old disease intervention specialist at the Prince George's County Health Department who union officials said was among at least 20 department employees infected by the coronavirus. The outbreak underscores the stark dangers facing the nation's front-line public health army, the subject of an ongoing series by KHN and the AP, "Underfunded and Under Threat."
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| Medical Marijuana, Inc. Subsidiary Kannaway® Supports European Industrial Hemp Association in Opinion Letter on Legal Status of CBD and Hemp Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT |
| Pantheon Hires Christy Marble as Chief Marketing Officer to Drive Expansion of WebOps Category Posted: 04 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT  The addition of a new CMO signals the momentum at Pantheon in marketing digital experiences with best-in-class remote collaboration Christy Marble Pantheon hires Christy Marble as Chief Marketing Officer to Drive Expansion of WebOps CategorySAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Pantheon, the leader in WebOps (website operations), names Christy Marble as Chief Marketing Officer, the company's first C-suite hire since transitioning to an all-remote workforce in March. As the world adapts to a new normal, the ability to have remote marketing and web teams working in sync to build the next generation of web experiences has become increasingly essential to the global enterprise. This collaboration is at the core of Pantheon's offering, and Christy's experience leading digital growth strategies will be extremely valuable. Companies rely on Pantheon to enhance their web performance and improve developer experience, agility and productivity. That support is essential during COVID, as enterprise companies pivot to remote collaboration and strive to meet changing customer needs with a digital-only commerce strategy. Onboarding a C-suite executive during this global shift embodies Pantheon's ability to facilitate collaboration using WebOps, a framework that enables web teams to iterate quickly and focus on results — no matter where they're located. This is another step forward for Pantheon in their proactive and progressive approach to growing the WebOps category.Prior Chief Marketing officer of SAP Concur and Visier, Christy has led the transformational growth of muti-national brands. Christy led B2B marketing and drove global market expansion of T&E leader, SAP Concur to more than $1 billion in demand growth. Her consumer marketing leadership includes the successful launch of Sallie Mae's consumer lending brands, and digital marketing programs for clients such as Gerber, Reckit Benkiser and Purina while at E-centives."As a software marketing executive, web experience has always been one of my core pillars for success," says Marble. "Now that most workforces are remote, websites — digital experiences — are the vital link between most organizations and their customers. This means internal collaboration between IT, development, and marketing has become critical to brand experience and business results.""We are very excited and proud to bring Christy into the fold," says Pantheon CEO Zack Rosen. "We're inspired by Christy's experience pioneering marketing growth initiatives and leading highly successful teams, and we can't wait to see her grow Pantheon's marketing program."Pantheon is dedicated to improving the productivity of digital teams and driving results with the open web. Since the onset of COVID-19, Pantheon has helped municipality site sf.gov, local news network Patch.com, and nonprofits like the American Civil Liberties Union and Share Our Strength scale website operations to meet heightened public demand. A long-standing champion of the open web, Pantheon's commitment to helping organizations publish quickly and collaborate in real time is more important now than ever."What excites me most about Pantheon is the open web values that fuel a vision to enable organizations of all types and sizes to make a positive impact on the world," says Marble. "I see in Pantheon that authentic combination of purpose, values and innovation that inspires people to do the best work of their careers, and I am thrilled to join the team."About Pantheon Pantheon's WebOps platform powers the open web, running more than 300,000 sites in the cloud for customers including Google, MGM, Stitch Fix, and DocuSign. Every day, thousands of developers and marketers create, iterate, and scale Drupal and WordPress sites to reach billions of people globally. Pantheon's multitenant, container-based platform enables organizations to manage all of their websites from a single dashboard. Organizations including Clorox, and the United Nations drive results through accelerated development and real-time publishing using Pantheon's collaborative workflows. Learn more at Pantheon.io.Contacts Rick Medeiros 209-330-3129 press@pantheon.ioA photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/1508b613-6753-434c-aaaa-4a00db7784fb.
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| VERU-111 Suppresses Key Cytokines Responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in COVID-19 Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:30 AM PDT |
| Netanyahu warns Hezbollah after Israeli strike in Syria Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:21 AM PDT |
| 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican is providing moral guidance on nuclear weapons Posted: 04 Aug 2020 05:18 AM PDT  Ahead of the 75th anniversary year of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Pope Francis visited both cities.At a solemn event at the Hiroshima Peace Park in November 2019, Francis declared the use of atomic energy for war to be "a crime not only against the dignity of human beings but against any possible future for our common home." "How," he asked, "can we speak of peace even as we build terrifying new weapons of war?"His comments came nearly 40 years after John Paul II became the first pope to visit the site of the atomic bomb attacks, which pulverized the two cities on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 and killed in excess of 200,000 in the process. Deterrence to abolitionDuring his visit, Francis reiterated what he previously told assembled Nobel Peace Prize laureates, diplomats and civil society representatives at a Vatican symposium in 2017, that nuclear weapons, along with chemical weapons and landmines, were impermissible. "The threat of their use, as well as their very possession, is to be firmly condemned," he said.We were at that 2017 symposium – Fr. Christiansen was a participant – and we later co-edited a book of testimonies from that landmark event, titled "A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament."As scholars who study how the Vatican's position on nuclear arms has evolved, we see an ongoing role for the Catholic Church in providing moral guidance on the issue. A year after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, during which the U.S. and the Soviet Union came perilously close to nuclear conflict, Pope John XXIII published the encyclical "Pacem in terris" – translated as Peace on Earth – in which he argued for balanced reduction of nuclear weapons leading ultimately to abolition. In 1965, bishops at Vatican II, while contemplating nuclear war, urged in the pastoral constitution document "Gaudium et spes" – translated as Joy and Hope – that, "Whatever may be the case with deterrence…the arms race…[will not] preserve a sure and authentic peace." Pope John Paul II conditionally accepted deterrence in a 1982 address to the U.N. General Assembly. He wanted abolition and disarmament, but was constrained by the politics and technology of the day. The Cold War was still raging, and the Vatican accepted, albeit reluctantly, nuclear deterrence – the concept of keeping weapons to stop others from using them – rather than outright abolition at that time. Some 30 years later, in a changed global reality, the Vatican foreign minister told the U.N. that deterrence was the chief obstacle to disarmament, setting up the position of the Vatican today.In 2017, the Holy See became one of the first signers of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Article 1 prohibits signers to "develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons…" This was the backdrop for Pope Francis' historic condemnation of deterrence and call for disarmament later that fall.One hundred and twenty-two nations voted for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. For its labors on behalf of the treaty, ICAN, the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, an umbrella group of civil society opponents of nuclear weapons, won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Beyond the hierarchyBut the guidance provided by the Catholic Church is not simply through official statements and positions from the top. Across the church, various groups have long campaigned for abolition of nuclear weapons. Catholic nuns have often been at the forefront of this work. In Japan, several activist hibakusha – survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – are sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and the Society of the Helper of Holy Souls, among other congregations.In the U.S., Sister Jennifer Kane was a nuclear engineer before realizing, in the words of her congregation in 2019, "that God was calling her to a more spiritual combat" as an antinuclear activist. And Dominicans, Religious of the Sacred Heart, and Society of the Holy Child Jesus have participated in the grassroots anti-nuclear direct-action movement Plowshares, at times resulting in prison time for activist nuns.This willingness to speak out against nuclear violence is consistent with Pope Francis' example. He offers a style of moral deliberation that calls for discernment, not blind obedience. Francis has urged those who work in the nuclear field to educate themselves, preferably accompanied by a spiritual adviser, and explore alternatives in line with their conscience.This creative exercise in moral responsibility is for anyone, religious or not. It is reflected in the work of the Project on Revitalizing Catholic Engagement on Nuclear Disarmament – a body co-sponsored by, among others, The University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. Courage of conscienceChurch teaching demands that conscientious officials and nuclear workers resist orders they deem to be immoral.The Second Vatican Council of the early 1960s taught that obeying orders is no excuse for participating in atrocities, and urged anyone, whether top military leader or rank-and-file citizen, to display "the courage of those who openly and fearlessly resist."[Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.]Indeed, in 2018 two chiefs of the U.S. Strategic Air Command testified in a Senate hearing that they would not comply with illegal orders to deploy nuclear weapons, and that they would offer civilian authorities alternative courses of action to pursue.There may be more than one right answer for those of us who are called to respond to the moral challenge of nuclear weapons.But 75 years on from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Vatican gives us clear moral guidance that disarmament is possible, and for all of us, religious or secular, its time has long since come.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * Bikini islanders still deal with fallout of US nuclear tests, more than 70 years later * The moral – and political – force of Pope Francis on climateRev. Drew Christiansen, S. J. is affiliated with various offices of the Holy See (Vatican) on international security matters, including nuclear disarmament. Those affiliations include the Holy See Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations/NY.Carole Sargent does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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| Lebanese try to storm Energy Ministry amid power cuts Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:55 AM PDT  Dozens of Lebanese protesters tried to storm the Ministry of Energy on Tuesday, angered by prolonged power cuts as the country grapples with a crippling economic crisis. Security forces pushed back against the angry protesters, chasing away some who breached the ministry perimeter. Lebanon's economic and financial crisis poses the most significant threat to the country since a devastating 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
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| Parents unhappy with school options assemble learning 'pods' Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:44 AM PDT  On the 4-acre farm at the edge of the Everglades where Timea Hunter runs a horse academy, she has hosted plenty of parties, picnics and workshops. While her son and daughter will participate in distance learning at their school, she plans to hire a teacher together with the families of four to six other children who could provide supplemental, in-person instruction on the farm shaded by royal poinciana trees. As the coronavirus pandemic has clouded hopes of reopening schools nationwide, parents who want more than remote instruction have been scrambling to hire tutors and private teachers for small groups of children.
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| Global Licensed Sports Merchandise Industry Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:44 AM PDT |
| Iran records highest COVID-19 cases in over month Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:39 AM PDT  Iran confirmed Tuesday over 2,700 new COVID-19 infections, its highest single-day count in more than a month, as the health ministry called for those without masks to be fined. Deaths and infections from the novel coronavirus have been on a rising trajectory in the Islamic republic since hitting a months-long low in May. This has prompted Iran to make wearing masks mandatory in enclosed spaces and reimpose restrictions lifted gradually since April to reopen the economy.
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| Family tells AP: Iran abducted California man while in Dubai Posted: 04 Aug 2020 04:10 AM PDT  A California-based member of an Iranian militant opposition group in exile was abducted by Iran while staying in Dubai, his family said Tuesday. The suspected cross-border abduction of Jamshid Sharmahd appears corroborated by mobile phone location data, shared by his family with The Associated Press, that suggests he was taken to neighboring Oman before heading to Iran. Iran hasn't said how it detained Sharmahd, though the announcement came against the backdrop of covert actions conducted by Iran amid heightened tensions with the U.S. over Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.
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