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River Nile dam: Sudan blasts 'unilateral' move as Ethiopia dam fills
As talks fail with Ethiopia, Sudan says water levels drop downstream and Egypt demands "clarification".

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:17:32 GMT

Wild Planet: Plenty of Fish in the Sea--But Species Matters
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently reported: "More needs to be done to ensure fisheries around the world are sustainable." According to Wild Planet, the first large-scale sustainably focused seafood company in the country, consumers can support sustainable fisheries around the world simply by choosing fish lower on the food chain—which the oceans naturally provide in abundance. From the bottom up, increasing consumer demand for less popular species can affect positive change for our oceans and, in turn, our planet.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:57:00 GMT

Germany urges WHO to hasten review of its handling of pandemic

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:44:59 GMT

Ethiopia's River Nile dam: How it will be filled
It is not like a bath with a tap that can be turned on and off at will.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:42:34 GMT

Coronavirus: How fast is it spreading in Africa?
There are fears that the number of cases is growing rapidly, so what are the key trends?

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:18:54 GMT

Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines – which means putting ethics before profits
As COVID-19 surges in the United States and worldwide, even the richest and best insured Americans understand, possibly for first time, what it’s like not to have the medicines they need to survive if they get sick. There is no coronavirus vaccine, and the best known treatment, remdesivir, only reduces hospital recovery time by 30% and only for patients with certain forms of the disease.Poorer people have always had trouble accessing essential medicines, however – even when good drugs exist to prevent and treat their conditions.In the U.S., where there is no legal right to health, insurance is usually necessary for medical treatment. Remedesivir costs about US,200 for a typical treatment course of six vials, though critics argue its manufacturer, Gilead, could make a profit off much less. Internationally, high drug prices mean that critical medicines are often available only to the richest patients. Access to medicines, in other words, is usually an ethical problem – not a scientific one. And that’s going to complicate the global coronavirus fight. Experts worry that any COVID-19 vaccine is likely have a high price tag and, as a result, be unequally distributed according to countries’ purchasing power, not need.With a little imagination, this challenge can be overcome. My new book “Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines” documents how in past epidemics, from polio and Ebola to HIV, the international community managed to get lifesaving drugs to patients – no matter where they lived or how much they earned. Past winsIt took years for scientists to identify an effective treatment for HIV. But by 1997, most people diagnosed with HIV in Europe and the U.S. were living long and productive lives thanks to antiretroviral drugs. Meanwhile, the disease was still killing 2.2 million people each year in sub-Saharan Africa because pharmaceutical companies claimed it was impossible to lower the US,000 to ,000 annual cost per patient for antiretrovirals. In response, human rights activists galvanized a global AIDS campaign, educating African patients about antiretrovirals, giving them the tools they required to demand treatment and even suing drug companies. Eventually, mass protests erupted in South Africa and elsewhere, shifting public opinion on access to medicines. By 2000, competition from generic drug manufacturers brought the price of antiretrovirals down to around 0 per patient per year, allowing millions more worldwide to take them.Around the same time, a similar story was playing out with tuberculosis, which had greatly diminished in the U.S. and Europe but remained deadly in many other places. The rise of drug-resistant strains – especially in the former Soviet Union and parts of Africa and Asia – posed a particularly terrible challenge.Conventional wisdom held that people with drug-resistant TB couldn’t be saved. The drugs were too expensive, treatment courses too long and disease management too complicated. The organization Partners in Health disproved that excuse by successfully treating 50 tuberculosis patients in Peru, then one of the world’s poorest countries. That project helped convince the World Health Organization to endorse multi-drug-resistant TB treatment. Global funding for TB treatment increased greatly and generic medicines were produced. Today more than 70% of people diagnosed with drug-resistant TB receive treatment Ending COVID-19 ethicallyThese health campaigns both demonstrate the virtue I call creative resolve, which is a fundamental commitment to overcoming apparent tragedy. Other examples include the adoption of “ring vaccinations” in the 1960s – a contact tracing-based immunization strategy pioneered in the 1960s after mass vaccinations failed to stop smallpox – and the 2010 decision by Afghan health officials to give children their smallpox vaccinations at the circus.Ending the global coronavirus pandemic will require similar creative resolve. [The Conversation’s science, health and technology editors pick their favorite stories. Weekly on Wednesdays.]Recently, the U.S. agreed to pay .2 billion for early access to a promising COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom and secured first access to another by the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, enraging citizens of those countries. Such arrangements also harm manufacturing countries like Brazil, Egypt and India, whose people have little access to the medicines their factories pump out.Unequal access to COVID-19 medicines isn’t just a moral problem. In a global pandemic, an outbreak anywhere threatens people everywhere.There is some creative resolve on display in the COVID-19 fight, though. For example, the Medicines Patent Pool – a United Nations-backed organization that encourages companies to share their patents in order to speed up innovation – is pushing this method for advancing the research and development of COVID-19 drugs. Other health experts are proposing new medicine distribution mechanisms that would send drugs and vaccines where they’re most needed based on the net health benefits a population would receive.That plan and others require smart data use. The Global Health Impact Project, a research collaboration that I direct, measures the effectiveness and availability of lifesaving medicines. The idea is that if we know which drugs are actually addressing pressing health needs and where, policymakers and health organizations can craft more targeted treatment access plans. Such information could be also used creatively to reward drug companies for their global health impact. Governments could create an international prize, say, that awards funds to companies based on the lives saved by their COVID-19 drugs and other essential medicines. That could offset profit as the primary motivation for drug research, development and sales.And if pharmaceutical companies don’t voluntarily help people in poor countries, those governments can do what they’ve done in past health crises: let other companies produce generic versions of patented medicines, to protect the common good.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * A secret reason Rx drugs cost so much: A global web of patent laws protects Big Pharma * How can we get pharma companies to do more for global health? Try ranking themMany universities have contributed to the Global Health Impact Organization. Its supporters are listed at: http://globalhealth.pythonanywhere.com/index/thankyou

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:16:00 GMT

US prison populations down 8% amid coronavirus outbreak
Stephanie Parris was finishing a two-year prison sentence for a probation violation when she heard she’d be going home three weeks early because of COVID-19. There has been a major drop in the number of people behind bars in the U.S. Between March and June, more than 100,000 people were released from state and federal prisons, a decrease of 8%, according to a nationwide analysis by The Marshall Project and The Associated Press.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 12:02:01 GMT

U.S. Weighs Sweeping Travel Ban on Chinese Communist Party Members
The Trump administration is considering a sweeping ban on travel to the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families, according to people familiar with the proposal, a move that would almost certainly prompt retaliation against Americans seeking to enter or remain in China and exacerbate tensions between the two nations.The presidential proclamation, still in draft form, could also authorize the U.S. government to revoke the visas of party members and their families who are already in the country, leading to their expulsion. Some proposed language is also aimed at limiting travel to the United States by members of the People's Liberation Army and executives at state-owned enterprises, although many of them are likely to also be party members.Details of the plan, described by four people with knowledge of the discussions, have not yet been finalized, and President Donald Trump might ultimately reject it. While the president and his campaign strategists have been intent on portraying him as tough on China for reelection purposes, Trump has vacillated wildly in both his language and actions on the Chinese government since taking office in 2017. He has criticized China on some issues, particularly trade. But he has also lavished praise on President Xi Jinping, pleaded with Xi to help him win reelection and remained silent or even explicitly approved of the repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang.There are practical issues as well. The Chinese Communist Party has 92 million members. Almost 3 million Chinese citizens visited the United States in 2018, although the numbers have plummeted because of the coronavirus pandemic and the current ban on most travelers from China. The U.S. government has no knowledge of party status for a vast majority of them. So trying to immediately identify party members to either prevent their entry or expel those already in the United States would be difficult.The presidential order would cite the same statute in the Immigration and Nationality Act used in a 2017 travel ban on a number of predominantly Muslim countries that gives the president power to temporarily block travel to the U.S. by foreign nationals who are deemed "detrimental to the interests of the United States." The 2017 ban was fought in the courts and expanded this year.Such a broad ban would be the most provocative action against China by the United States since the start of the trade war between the two countries in 2018. It would further poison U.S.-China relations, even after several years of open clashes over economics, technology and global influence have led some diplomats and analysts to draw comparisons to a new Cold War.Officials at the White House, State Department and Department of Homeland Security have been involved in the discussion over the ban. Spokesmen for the White House National Security Council and the State Department declined to comment Wednesday, and one for the Department of Homeland Security did not return a request for comment.Officials at those agencies also continue to debate a variety of formulations for banning Chinese travel to the United States short of barring all party members, such as targeting only the 25 members of the ruling Politburo and their families.In recent months, top administration officials have tried to draw a distinction between party members and other Chinese, saying the party must be punished for its actions -- and its global ambitions must be thwarted. They have loudly denounced what they call the evils of the Chinese Communist Party, pointing to the role of its officials in the cover-up of the initial coronavirus outbreak, the detentions of 1 million or more Muslims in internment camps and the dismantling of civil liberties in Hong Kong.The Communist Party is both a powerful and mundane part of life in China. While its leaders maintain control of domestic and foreign policy, those on lower rungs do everything from supervising schools to managing neighborhood-level governance. In recent decades, many citizens joined to get a leg up in a wide range of sectors: business, academia and even the arts. Many party members do not conform to official ideology; some are Christians who attend underground churches, for example.Many Chinese outside the party praise the top leadership but complain about corruption among local officials.Counting party members as well as their families, the ban could technically bar travel to the United States for as many as 270 million people, according to one internal administration estimate."The overwhelming majority of CCP members have no involvement or input into Beijing's policymaking, so going after the entire party membership is like China sanctioning all Republicans because of frustrations with Trump," said Jude Blanchette, a China scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Such a move would inflame public opinion in China, as this would target nearly 10% of the entire Chinese population and would do so based on blanket assertions of guilt."Besides the iterations of the 2017 travel ban, the Trump administration has put in place other entry restrictions. This year, during the pandemic, it has banned entry for most citizens of China as well as those from the European Union and some other nations. And last month, it blocked employment visas and extended restrictions on issuance of green cards, moves that would keep as many as 525,000 foreign workers out of the United States for the rest of the year.The State Department has also announced visa restrictions on various categories of Chinese citizens. These include officials responsible for the mass internment and surveillance of Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region and journalists working in the United States.In May, U.S. officials said the government was canceling the visas of graduate or higher-level students in the United States who had ties to certain Chinese military institutions -- the first ban on a category of Chinese students, who make up the largest group of international students in the country.After Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act on Tuesday, the State Department was expected to propose names of Chinese officials overseeing repression in Hong Kong for visa and economic sanctions.And on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a ban on some employees of Chinese technology companies, including Huawei, that "provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights abuses globally."He added, "Telecommunications companies around the world should consider themselves on notice: If they are doing business with Huawei, they are doing business with human rights abusers."Despite Trump's admiration for Xi, national security officials have tried to push tough policies on China that are designed to counter what they view as dangerous expansionist actions by Chinese leaders and agencies. The pandemic and Beijing's recent actions on Hong Kong have helped push relations between the two nations to the lowest point in decades.At the same time, some of Trump's top economic advisers have promoted a softer approach to China, warning of further damage to the world economy and falling stock markets. Those advisers and allies among American executives are likely to oppose a broad visa ban on Communist Party members, some of whom do business with American corporations.A broad ban would give the State Department new powers to block top Chinese political and business leaders and their families from entering the United States. (Xi's daughter, Xi Mingze, attended Harvard University under a pseudonym several years ago.) It would also allow the department to formalize a process by which U.S. officials could inquire about party status during visa application interviews and on forms. Under the draft proclamation, the Department of Homeland Security would share responsibility for carrying out the ban.Several Chinese citizens who have traveled to the United States in recent years said they did not recall any question on visa applications asking if they were party members.Language in the draft proclamation stresses recent egregious behavior by China, in particular theft of intellectual property by Chinese state actors and so-called exit bans used by security officials to prevent some U.S. citizens from leaving China. This month, the State Department renewed a travel warning saying the Chinese authorities engaged in "arbitrary enforcement of local laws for purposes other than maintaining law and order," which could include "detention and the use of exit bans."On Tuesday, the Trump administration reversed course on an order that would have subjected international students to deportation if they did not physically attend classes during the pandemic, after American universities filed a lawsuit.Still, the administration has stood by its visa actions focused more narrowly on China. The Chinese government has continued with its own harsh visa actions, and even widened them to the nonrenewal of work permits for Western journalists in Hong Kong.At a speech in Beijing this month, Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, said the China-U.S. relationship was facing its "most severe challenge" since the normalization of diplomatic ties in 1979."Some say that China-U.S. relations will not be able to return to its past," he said. "But that should not mean ignoring the history altogether and starting all over again, let alone impractical decoupling. It should mean building on past achievements and keeping pace with the times."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:52:45 GMT

Russian hackers attempted to steal UK's Covid-19 vaccine research, Downing St says
Russia has been accused by the Government of trying to steal Britain’s research into a Covid-19 vaccine in a state-sponsored cyber attack. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) told Boris Johnson it had the “highest level of confidence” the Kremlin was behind the “ongoing” attack, which was also verified by the US and Canada. Both Oxford University and Imperial College London, the two British teams trying to develop a vaccine, are understood to have been targeted. Security sources refused to say whether any attempts to steal information had been successful. The NCSC said the hack was part of an ongoing campaign of “malicious activity” that began in around February or March when coronavirus became an international pandemic. Intelligence sources said knowledge of the attacks “is at the highest levels” in Russia, directly implicating President Vladimir Putin in the plot. It named the hackers as a group called APT-29, better known by the nicknames Cozy Bear and The Dukes, and said for the first time that the group was part of the Russian intelligence service.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:03:01 GMT

UN says 2 aid workers, 4 others shot dead in South Sudan

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:01:51 GMT

It started like any other Kremlin crackdown. This time anti-Putin protests followed.
Demonstrators have held banners saying "Free Sergei Furgal," while others have called on President Vladimir Putin to resign.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:45:23 GMT

Julian Lewis hits back at Boris Johnson after he is stripped of Conservative whip
Julian Lewis has hit out at Boris Johnson’s “improper” attempt to impose his preferred candidate as chairman of Parliament’s intelligence committee after he was ousted from the Conservatives for alleged “duplicity.” The veteran MP was on Wednesday ousted from the Conservative benches after securing the chairmanship of the Intelligence and Security Committee with the support of Labour and SNP members. His surprise candidacy blindsided Downing Street and his colleague and former Cabinet minister Chris Grayling, who had been lined up for the role. The move provoked fury within Government, with senior Tory sources accusing Mr Lewis of deceiving the Chief Whip and working with the opposition to his own advantage. There are now fears that Number 10 could attempt to remove Lewis from the committee though a resolution in the House of Commons. However, such a move would likely provoke a significant Tory rebellion. Hitting back on Thursday, Mr Lewis said that the Prime Minister had no right to select the chairman of the committee and that gave no assurances that he would vote for Mr Grayling. In a statement, he added that a request for him to vote Mr Grayling was “improper” given the vote was independent of the Government and that Number 10 had publicly denied wanting to “parachute a preferred candidate into the chair”. “It is therefore strange to have the whip removed for failing to vote for the Government's preferred candidate,” he continued. It comes as Mr Johnson faces a mounting backlash from Conservative MPs over his treatment of Mr Lewis, who has served as an MP for 23 years. One former Cabinet minister told The Telegraph that Mr Lewis had significant expertise on defence and security matters and was a far more suitable candidate than Mr Grayling, who during his chequered ministerial career earned the nickname “Failing Grayling.” “So Failing Grayling failed, kind of goes with the reputation,” they added. The committee’s first major act will be to publish the long-awaited Russia report, which has been repeatedly held up due to last year’s election and delays in selecting the committee membership. On Thursday the committee confirmed that it would be releasing it next week, before MPs rise for the summer recess. Critics of the Government believe the report was deliberately delayed because it is likely to suggest Russian interference with the Brexit referendum.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:30:01 GMT

IS bride to return to UK to fight for British citizenship
A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join the Islamic State group won the right Thursday to return to Britain to fight for the restoration of her citizenship, which was revoked on national security grounds. Shamima Begum was one of three east London schoolgirls who traveled to Syria in 2015.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 10:10:07 GMT

As Israel virus cases surge, government weighs new lockdown
Israel reached a new daily record of confirmed coronavirus cases, the country's Health Ministry said Thursday, as a new nationwide lockdown to curb the pandemic appeared imminent. Adding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's troubles, a new economic bailout plan announced by the embattled premier came under tough criticism from some of the government's top economic experts. The growing coronavirus outbreak, coupled with a struggling economy, have marked a dramatic turnaround for Netanyahu.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:50:50 GMT

US-China decoupling is already happening, says Donald Trump's former security chief John Bolton, also calling for open borders for Hongkongers
Economic decoupling between the United States and China is "not only possible, but is happening", according to John Bolton, the former national security adviser-turned staunch critic of US President Donald Trump.Referring to decoupling, Bolton, a long-time China hawk who has criticised Trump for going too easy on Beijing, said that people will not "wake up tomorrow and find that it's occurred". Businesses are already looking at incrementally moving their supply chains out of China because they are fed up with the sort of "state espionage that would boggle the mind of a US or European" company, Bolton said.Bolton's claims are anecdotally true, with large companies such as Apple, Samsung and Nintendo shifting production out of the mainland to enjoy lower-cost manufacturing primarily in Vietnam, but also to avoid trade war tariffs applied by US customs authorities.A survey of 200 multinational companies released last week, meanwhile, found that 95 per cent of US buyers plan to shift their supplier base away from China. Experts, however, have subsequently warned that such a move is difficult to achieve in the short term.Financial decoupling, where the United States would cut China or Hong Kong's access to US dollar-settling markets, has also "been raised as a possibility", Bolton said.The US has also moved to force Chinese companies who do not meet more stringent documentation criteria to delist from US stock markets, while reports have claimed the Trump administration has discussed the "nuclear option" of restricting dollar access.In a video address to Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondent Club on Wednesday night, Bolton suggested that a Trump victory in November's general election would lead to a reopening of trade talks with China in pursuit of another trade deal, a move strongly discouraged by the former official, who served under every Republican president back to Ronald Reagan."If he wins re-election on November 4, it's entirely possibly he calls his buddy Xi Jinping and says: 'Hey, let's get a back room deal,'" Bolton said. Five years from now, he added, "if you talk about the phase one trade deal, 99 per cent of people will look at you with a blank face and say, 'What was that?'"Bolton has been an aggressive critic of Trump's policy on China since leaving his post as national security adviser in September last year, a role he held for 17 months.Bolton has been an aggressive critic of Trump's policy on China since leaving his post as national security adviser in September last year, a role he held for 17 months. Photo: AP alt=Bolton has been an aggressive critic of Trump's policy on China since leaving his post as national security adviser in September last year, a role he held for 17 months. Photo: APHis book, The Room Where It Happened, raced to the top of the bestsellers' chart when released in June, and was widely serialised in American press. Bolton's claims that Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping on the persecution of Uygurs in Xinjiang generated global headlines.Bolton was speaking less than 24 hours after Trump signed the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, opening the door to sanctions on officials from the city and China over the sweeping national security law, and an executive order stripping Hong Kong of its preferential trading status.The move leaves Hong Kong open to trade war tariffs, which were previously levied on mainland Chinese exports to the United States. It also comes weeks after Washington revoked Hong Kong's export controls exemption license privileges, barring the city from accessing sensitive American technological goods.Bolton said the United States should open its borders to Hongkongers fleeing the city after the imposition of the national security law, citing Britain's revision of its immigration policy to accommodate Hong Kong nationals. The British government has offered a route to citizenship for holders of British National Overseas passports in Hong Kong.Defending strict US immigration policy on migrants reaching its southern border from Latin American nations, Bolton said that "just by showing up at the border, doesn't mean you are going to get in".The Trump administration tried unsuccessfully to block publication of Bolton's book, claiming it contained classified national security information. Photo: AFP alt=The Trump administration tried unsuccessfully to block publication of Bolton's book, claiming it contained classified national security information. Photo: AFP"I favour greatly immigration and I think what Britain, Canada and others have done in terms of potential political asylum for Hong Kong is something the United States should do, too, so I favour more immigration," Bolton said."I think it's what makes America strong " it has historically. That's the big advantage we have over almost every other country in the world."Canada was the first country to break an extradition treaty with Hong Kong over the national security law last week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added that Ottawa is "also looking at additional measures, including around immigration" for Hongkongers.But Bolton was fiercely critical of what he portrayed as Trump's disinterest in human rights, or anything "that got in the way of the great white whale of the Trump administration, the big trade deal".In a anecdote alluded to in his book, Bolton confirmed that he had written a statement for the president to release on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 2019, "but when I gave it to the president, he would not issue it".Bolton's claims that Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping on the persecution of Uygurs in Xinjiang generated global headlines. Photo: EPA-EFE alt=Bolton's claims that Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping on the persecution of Uygurs in Xinjiang generated global headlines. Photo: EPA-EFEAmid rising tensions over US action regarding human rights abuses in Xinjiang, territorial disputes and militarisation in the South China Sea, the Hong Kong situation and friction over the origins of the coronavirus, analysts and officials generally agree that US-China relations are at their lowest point since normalisation in 1979.But Bolton said that he thought the prospect of a military war between the superpowers was "remote"."I don't see it in anything like the near term. It'll hopefully give Beijing a chance to back away from some of it's provocative behaviour," said Bolton.This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the most authoritative voice reporting on China and Asia for more than a century. For more SCMP stories, please explore the SCMP app or visit the SCMP's Facebook and Twitter pages. Copyright © 2020 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2020. South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:30:00 GMT

Black UK protester statue removed from pedestal in Bristol
Officials in the English city of Bristol on Thursday removed a statue of a Black Lives Matter activist that was installed on a pedestal once occupied by a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. Artist Marc Quinn created the resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the pedestal after demonstrators pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol’s harbor on June 7. Bristol City Council said the sculpture "will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to our collection.”

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:43:38 GMT

Can a pregnant woman spread the coronavirus to her fetus?
Many viruses can cross the placenta and infect a fetus in the womb, and evidence has been growing that the coronavirus sometimes can too. Researchers in Italy studied 31 women with COVID-19 who delivered babies in March and April and found signs of the virus in several samples of umbilical cord blood, the placenta and, in one case, breast milk. In one case, there was strong evidence suggesting the newborn had the virus at birth because signs of it were found in umbilical cord blood and in the placenta.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:22:29 GMT

EU throws out US data sharing deal over surveillance fears
Europe's top court has thrown out a US data-sharing deal which underpinned transatlantic digital trade for more than 5,000 companies, The ruling, by the EU Court of Justice, saw the "EU-US privacy shield" invalidated due to concerns over the privacy of Europeans, with the court suggesting US surveillance laws were too far-reaching. “This was an unexpected result," said Bridget Treacy, data privacy partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth. "For businesses that transfer personal data from the EU to the US, this represents the worst of all possible outcomes." The landmark ruling, which cannot be appealed, effectively ends the privileged access companies in the US had to personal data from Europe and puts the country on a similar footing to other nations outside the 27-country bloc. The ruling will also complicate the transfer of a data outside the EU, and it could require regulators to vet any new transfers due to national security concerns. "It is likely to have implications for the UK’s hopes for a post-Brexit data protection adequacy ruling from the European Commission," added Ms Treacy. "The UK can expect its surveillance laws to be subject to similar scrutiny to those of the US, to assess whether they respect the privacy rights of EU citizens." The case began after former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 that the US government was snooping on people's online data and communications. The revelations included details on how Facebook gave US security agencies access to the personal data of Europeans. Austrian activist and law student Max Schrems filed a complaint against Facebook, which has its EU base in Ireland, arguing that personal data should not be sent to the US because the data protection is not as strong as in Europe.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 08:04:13 GMT

China's economy bounces back from pandemic contraction
China's economy returned to growth in the second quarter following a coronavirus contraction, with President Xi Jinping promising continued expansion ahead and urging foreign companies to be a part of it. Gross domestic product expanded 3.2 percent in April-June, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, smashing expectations and a massive improvement on the 6.8 percent contraction in the first quarter. In a letter to members of the Global CEO Council, Xi said "the fundamentals of China's long-term economic growth have not changed and will not change", according to state media.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:40:33 GMT

Analysis: Risks grow after blast hits Iran's nuclear program
A mysterious explosion and fire at Iran's main nuclear facility may have stopped Tehran from building advanced centrifuges, but it likely has not slowed the Islamic Republic in growing its ever-increasing stockpile of low-enriched uranium. Limiting that stockpile represented one of the main tenets of the nuclear deal that world powers reached with Iran five years ago this week — an accord which now lies in tatters after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from it two years ago. The larger that stockpile grows, the shorter the so-called “breakout time” becomes — time that Iran would need to build a nuclear weapon if it chooses to do so.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:21:59 GMT

Minorities under attack as PM pushes 'tolerant' Pakistan
It’s been a tough month for religious minorities in Pakistan, and observers warn of even tougher times ahead as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and his conservative Islamic beliefs. A Christian was gunned down because he rented in a Muslim neighborhood in northwest Peshawar, not far from the border with Afghanistan. Another Christian, pastor Haroon Sadiq Cheeda, his wife and 12-year-old son were beaten by their Muslim neighbors in eastern Punjab and told to leave their village.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:06:23 GMT

Stacked chairs a symbol of California reclosing amid virus
When restaurants and bars began reopening in California after a stay-at-home order, employees took down caution tape, hung “Welcome Back” signs and placed chairs neatly around tables in preparation for customers. Hair salons and stores also started to open their doors, as people began to claw back some normalcy. California, which imposed the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order in March, initially successfully managed the virus.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 05:05:07 GMT

US executes 2nd man in a week; lawyers said he had dementia
The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed. Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. Purkey was convicted of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old girl, Jennifer Long, before dismembering, burning and dumping her body in a septic pond.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:46:03 GMT

Four more years? Trump struggles to outline second term plan
President Donald Trump is adamant that he wants another four years in office. The Republican president repeatedly assailed Democratic rival Joe Biden during a rambling, hourlong Rose Garden news conference Tuesday that doubled as a reelection rally. With the election less than four months away, Trump's focus is more on winning than on how he would govern.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:32:11 GMT

In the open: White House advisers tussle over virus response
Infighting over the White House's handling of the coronavirus pandemic is spilling further into public view, with trade adviser Peter Navarro panning Dr. Anthony Fauci as President Donald Trump stands watch. The president insisted he had a “very good relationship with Dr. Fauci” and said his staffers were working together.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:27:21 GMT

Pompeo downplays possibility of summit with North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed the possibility of another summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the U.S. presidential election, saying Trump would only want to engage if there were real prospects of progress. During a parliamentary speech, Moon urged North Korea to return to inter-Korean dialogue, which has also stalled, and called for South Korean lawmakers to support government policies aimed at reviving cross-border cooperation.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 03:00:15 GMT

China's long-term economic growth fundamentals will not change -President Xi

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 02:09:39 GMT

In Egypt, sexual predator case reignites #MeToo debate
Egypt has seen a strong resurgence of the #MeToo movement after dozens of women made shocking claims of sexual abuse and assault by a member of the country's wealthy elite. Police on July 4 arrested Zaki who, according to prosecutors, has confessed to assaulting at least six girls including one aged under 18 and to blackmailing the victims. While Zaki is awaiting trial, his case has kicked off a wave of other complaints in a society where, United Nations surveys say, most women have experienced catcalling, pinching, groping or worse.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 01:31:04 GMT

Trump replaces campaign manager amid sinking poll numbers
President Donald Trump shook up his campaign staff Wednesday amid sinking poll numbers less than four months before the election, replacing campaign manager Brad Parscale with veteran GOP operative Bill Stepien. “I am pleased to announce that Bill Stepien has been promoted to the role of Trump Campaign Manager,” Trump said on Facebook. “Brad Parscale, who has been with me for a very long time and has led our tremendous digital and data strategies, will remain in that role, while being a Senior Advisor to the campaign.”

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:49:25 GMT

UK says 'Russian actors' likely tried to disrupt 2019 election
Britain on Thursday accused "Russian actors" of seeking to disrupt last year's general election by circulating leaked trade documents between London and Washington. The government launched an investigation into the source of the leak, after details of talks with the United States on a possible post-Brexit trade deal were published on social media site Reddit. The main opposition Labour party said the files proved the government would "sell-out" the state-run National Health Service (NHS) to US companies.

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:35:57 GMT

Brexit vote hits leave areas the hardest

Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

UN official: Catastrophe looming from oil tanker off Yemen
The U.N. environment chief said Wednesday that “time is running out” to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian catastrophe from a deteriorating oil tanker loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude oil that is moored off the coast of Yemen. Inger Andersen told the U.N. Security Council that an oil spill from the FSO Safer, which hasn’t been maintained for over five years, would wreck ecosystems and livelihoods for decades. Houthi rebels, who control the area where the ship is moored, have denied U.N. inspectors access to the vessel so they could assess the damage and look for ways to secure the tanker by unloading the oil and pulling the ship to safety.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:51:02 GMT

Yemen’s rebels: Saudi-coalition airstrike kills 10 civilians

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:54:17 GMT

Over 140 detained after anti-Putin protest in Moscow
Russian police detained over 140 people including a high-profile Moscow deputy after Kremlin critics protested Wednesday against changes to the constitution, the OVD-Info monitor said. Yulia Galyamina, a prominent Moscow city councillor who has spearheaded a campaign against President Vladimir Putin's controversial changes to the constitution, was among those detained together with her daughter, she said on Facebook. The constitutional changes could see President Vladimir Putin stay in power for another 16 years.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:54:09 GMT

Iran acknowledges its troops shot down a passenger jet and killed 176 people, describing a string of colossal failures
A mistake by elite Iranian troops in January set in motion a series of errors. "Such a failure initiated a hazard chain," Iran said in a new report.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:24:46 GMT

Ivanka Trump defends Goya post that watchdogs call unethical
Ivanka Trump on Wednesday defended tweeting a photo of herself holding up a can of Goya beans to buck up a Hispanic-owned business that she says has been unfairly treated, arguing that she has “every right” to publicly express her support. Government watchdogs countered that President Donald Trump's daughter and senior adviser doesn't have the right to violate ethics rules that bar government officials from using their public office to endorse specific products or groups. The White House would be responsible for disciplining Ivanka Trump for any ethics violation but chose not to in a similar case involving White House counselor Kellyanne Conway in 2017.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:20:58 GMT

Climate change makes freak Siberian heat 600 times likelier
Nearly impossible without man-made global warming, this year’s freak Siberian heat wave is producing climate change’s most flagrant footprint of extreme weather, a new flash study says. International scientists released a study Wednesday that found the greenhouse effect multiplied the chance of the region’s prolonged heat by at least 600 times, and maybe tens of thousands of times. In the study, which has not yet gone through peer review, the team looked at Siberia from January to June, including a day that hit 100 degrees (38 degrees Celsius) for a new Arctic record.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:14:33 GMT

Coronavirus data is funneled away from CDC, sparking worries
Hospital data related to the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will now be collected by a private technology firm, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a move the Trump administration says will speed up reporting but one that concerns some public health leaders. The CDC director said Wednesday that he's fine with the change — even though some experts fear it will further sideline the agency. The CDC has agreed to step out of the government's traditional data collection process "in order to streamline reporting,” Dr. Robert Redfield said during a call with reporters set up by the agency's parent, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:04:38 GMT

US sanctions companies linked to businessman close to Putin

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:21:50 GMT

Mail could be delayed as new postal boss pushes cost-cutting
Mail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a "different mindset” to ensure the Postal Service’s survival during the coronavirus pandemic. The changes come a month after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major donor to President Donald Trump, took over the sprawling mail service.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 20:11:30 GMT

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Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:55:59 GMT

As Israel's economy sags, Netanyahu offers aid to families
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced a plan to distribute hundreds of dollars in grants to every Israeli in order to stimulate the country's sagging economy, days after thousands of people took to the streets to protest his handling of the coronavirus crisis. In a nationally televised news conference, Netanyahu lashed out at violent tactics used by some protesters and said his decision was not connected with the unrest. Instead, he said he was aiming to jump-start the economy when the country is in the midst of a global crisis.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:35:47 GMT

7 traditional wooden ships burn in factory in southern Iran

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:25:12 GMT

Signs that Guatemala's justice system is under attack
In Guatemala, death threats have driven two anti-corruption prosecutors from the country in the past year, and their unit’s leader has a protective order from a regional human rights commission because he is constantly harassed and threatened. With the departure of the United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission last year that supported a war against some of the country’s most powerful political, business and criminal leaders, Guatemala’s pursuers have become the pursued. The assault has only intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, as corrupt interests take advantage of a population distracted by the health crisis to extend their tentacles back into the justice system.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:21:00 GMT

Politics latest news: Russians tried to interfere in 2019 election by promoting document touted by Jeremy Corbyn
Coronavirus latest news: Leicester mayor criticises 'blanket political-led lockdown' ahead of government decision Shamima Begum wins right to return to UK to challenge stripping of citizenship Julian Lewis hits back after he is stripped of Conservative whip Face mask farce as Matt Hancock contradicts Number 10 Listen | Why are Tory voters more likely to oppose face masks? Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month Russians tried to influence the UK's General Election in December, by amplifying the leaked US trade deal documents touted by Jeremy Corbyn during the campaign, the Government believes. "Extensive analysis" has led the Government to conclude that "it is almost certain" Russians tried to meddle in the 2019 vote, Dominic Raab has said in a written ministerial statement. Documents relating to the UK-US Free Trade Agreement were "illicitly acquired" before the election and disseminated online via the social media platform Reddit, the Foreign Secretary explained. The Telegraph revealed such concerns back in December. "When these gained no traction, further attempts were made to promote the illicitly acquired material online in the run up to the General Election," he said. "Whilst there is no evidence of a broad spectrum Russian campaign against the General Election, any attempt to interfere in our democratic processes is completely unacceptable. It is, and will always be, an absolute priority to protect our democracy and elections." The matter is now subject to a criminal investigation and the Intelligence and Security Committee has been made aware of the matter. "The Government reserves the right to respond with appropriate measures in the future," Mr Raab added. The statement was made shortly after an independent committee said it would publish the long-awaited report into alleged Russian interference in the 2017 general election and the 2016 Brexit vote. The Intelligence and Security Committee voted unanimously for it to be released before Parliament's summer break next week. Separately, Russia has been accused by the Government of trying to steal Britain’s research into a Covid-19 vaccine in a state-sponsored cyber attack. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) told Boris Johnson it had the “highest level of confidence” the Kremlin was behind the “ongoing” attack, which was also verified by the US and Canada. Follow the latest updates below.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:16:06 GMT

NYPD chief, protesters roughed up in Brooklyn Bridge clash
Several New York City police officers were attacked and injured Wednesday as pro-police and anti-police protesters clashed on the Brooklyn Bridge, police said. The confrontation happened hours before Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a series of police accountability measures inspired by the killings of George Floyd, Eric Garner and other Black people. At least four officers were hurt, including Chief of Department Terence Monahan, and 37 people were arrested, police said.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:59:31 GMT

Three Marines, Now a Focus of Russian Bounties Investigation, Show the Costs of an Endless War
The U.S. military convoy was almost back to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan when a vehicle, laden with explosives, careened into it and detonated.The powerful blast blew up a heavily armored troop carrier, engulfing it in flames. Marines poured out of the other vehicles in the convoy as they battled desperately to save the occupants of the burning carrier, including a Marine reservist -- a New York City firefighter -- who had once rescued a woman from a burning high-rise apartment.But all of the American ingenuity that had gone into armoring military vehicles was not enough to stave off the horrendous damage caused by the blast. The firefighter, Staff Sgt. Christopher K.A. Slutman, 43, did not beat the fire this time. Two other Marines, also reservists, were killed as well, casualties of a two-decade war that has relentlessly continued to exact its toll on U.S. troops.Now those three Marines are at the center of the latest iteration of the continuing saga of President Donald Trump and Russia.U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating whether that car bomb was detonated at the behest of a Russian military agency paying bounties to Afghan militia groups for killing U.S. troops. Such a possibility, if true, would be a staggering repudiation of Trump's yearslong embrace of President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Thus far, there is no conclusive evidence linking the deaths to any kind of Russian bounty.Perhaps even more significant is that it has taken the debate over possible Russian bounties to bring what happened to Slutman and the two other Marines -- Sgt. Robert A. Hendriks, 25, and Staff Sgt. Benjamin S. Hines, 31 -- to the forefront of American consciousness.Eighteen years of war have left most Americans largely oblivious to the troops still deploying to Afghanistan. They are still suiting up in camouflage, still saying goodbye to loved ones and still boarding flights from Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Newark, New Jersey, to Frankfurt, Germany, to Kuwait to Kabul before the final few miles to Bagram.The mission of the U.S. endeavor in Afghanistan has changed from a war on terrorism to one meant to "train, advise and assist" Afghan troops. But U.S. forces are still going on patrols in remote areas of the country. The mountain ridges, village roads and poppy fields are as deadly as they were in 2001.Americans are still fighting, and they are still dying. In 2019, the three Marines were among 22 Americans lost in a long-forgotten war.Interviews with family, friends, service members and military officials paint an all-too-familiar story of the three: young men who, after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, sought to serve their country.They were everyone's neighbors, and they came from hometowns in the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Hines was a "Star Wars" buff. Slutman doted on his three daughters. Hendriks played lacrosse, was a unionized construction worker and led the way for his brother to join the Marines as well.They died two weeks before their unit was scheduled to go home -- and while American and Taliban negotiators wrestled over details of a proposed peace deal.For those who loved them, the deaths of the three were excruciating. Recalling the details again, a little more than a year later, is like experiencing it twice, friends and family members said.The cascade of news articles that followed the disclosure of intelligence reports regarding the Russian bounties has been like "pouring salt on the wound," said Jason Rina, a friend of Slutman's, who spent five years working with him at the Cross Bronx Expressway, the name of their New York firehouse.Erik Hendriks, Hendriks' father, had largely avoided the news in the past year, but he said the Russian bounty story scraped his pain raw. "If it does come out as true," he said, "obviously the heartache would be terrible."Their Deployment BeginsThe three Marines arrived in Afghanistan in October 2018 to find a home base that existed under frequent rocket attack. Bagram Airfield, about 25 miles north of Kabul, the capital, is a huge complex that has served as a command center for the U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan for almost as long as there has been a U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan.Before that, the base was fought over by the Northern Alliance and the Taliban during Afghanistan's brutal civil war. Before that, it was home to the Soviet Union's 40th Army, the same base where the Kremlin first positioned elite troops in the summer of 1979 as they prepared for their own long war that ended in humiliation and defeat.One of the first things that NATO troops did after the 2001 invasion was to secure Bagram. By the time the Marines arrived, the base was home to thousands of rotating NATO troops, civilian contractors and airmen.There were office buildings, barracks and enormous dining facilities. There was a Pizza Hut, a coffee cafe and a military shopping facility with hair products and a chance to win a Harley-Davidson motorcycle propped up in the entryway.But the commercial normalcy belies the fact that Bagram remains in a war zone. Flak jackets are mandatory in some areas, and the sounds of rockets and shelling from Taliban and other insurgents are the background music of the airfield, almost as common as the planes taking off and landing. Multiple suicide bombers have killed dozens of people both outside and inside the base over the years. The near constancy of the attacks at Bagram make them seem almost routine, according to soldiers and Marines who deploy there.The three Marine reservists were to go on patrols alongside troops from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. By all accounts, it was a quiet six-month deployment.Hendriks, a tall, mustachioed turret gunner, was frequently spotted on base lifting weights in his fatigues and olive T-shirt with the words "All It Takes Is All You Got" on the back. He needed to keep in shape. Getting in and out of the armored vehicles involved a lot of contortions because of his height.He grew up in Locust Valley, New York, and was beguiled from an early age by the idea of military service. A beloved uncle and grandfather were veterans, and when one of his best friends joined the Marines, he decided to follow, his father said."He came to me in high school in his senior year and asked me to go sign for him," Erik Hendriks said. "I said 'Robbie think about it. You don't know if you want to have a girlfriend, you don't know about your future.'"But his son, stern and straightforward, liked the steady and reliable nature of the military and thought it was a good fit for his orderly personality. "He was a perfectionist," his father recalled. "He knew details. If you gave him a pencil and said 'Here, put this somewhere,' he could find it two years later. If you told Robbie, 'Do this for the next 10 hours, he would do it."After graduating in 2012 from Locust Valley High School, Hendriks joined the Marine Corps Reserves, assigned to the Site Support 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, in Garden City, New York. He was only 17. The next year, his younger brother, Joseph Hendriks, followed suit.Hines, a former football player who was engaged to be married, had always been enthusiastic about physical training, said Lt. Col. Joe Innerst, a retired Marine who started an ROTC program in the Dallastown Area School District in Pennsylvania when Hines was a high school senior.He loved to rewatch "Star Wars" movies, his friends said, and considered the series the ideal representation of good versus evil. He also was notoriously late, operating on what his family and friends jokingly referred to as "Ben Time." He was close friends with the third Marine, Slutman, despite their 12-year age difference. He joined other Marines who jokingly called Slutman "Old Man," friends said.Slutman, who had been a Marine for 14 years by the time he was deployed at Bagram, arrived at the airfield already well-tested and respected after years of fighting fires across New York City. He had received medals for bravery in 2014 after rescuing an unconscious woman from a burning building in the South Bronx. He was constantly challenging other Marines who called him old to try to keep up with him, his friends said. But above all, they said, he adored his three daughters.Attack on Their ConvoyThat October, a car bomb exploded near a Czech convoy outside Bagram, wounding five Czech troops. But Thanksgiving and Christmas came and went uneventfully for the Marines. In February, the new acting defense secretary, Patrick Shanahan, showed up in an all-black outfit, prompting the U.S. media to call him "Dr. Evil."A month later, Hendriks celebrated his 25th birthday.The three Marines and the rest of their unit were going out almost daily. Sleep, eat, patrol. The routine has been repeated many thousands of times by 775,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan for more than 18 years. Sometimes the Marines were on foot, and sometimes they were in convoys as they patrolled the Bagram perimeter.The Marines knew that every time they left the airfield, their chances of getting hit by an improvised roadside explosive or a car bomb went up exponentially. The road between Kabul and Bagram was especially dangerous, which is why visiting American dignitaries took helicopters between the locations.On April 8 -- less than two weeks before the Marines were due to return to the U.S. -- the three set out on another patrol. Slutman, Hendriks and Hines were in the same vehicle.Just before 4 p.m., as the convoy was approaching an intersection near Bagram, a vehicle slammed into the three Marines' personnel carrier and detonated. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility.That night, 7,000 miles away in York, Pennsylvania, two Marines in dress uniform arrived on the doorstep of Fletcher Slutman, Slutman's father. "Would you like to invite your wife in?" one asked him, after they had settled around the kitchen table. Fletcher Slutman shook his head no.But the Marine nodded his head yes.Three nights later, on Thursday, April 11, a military plane landed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware with the remains of the three Marines.Hendriks' brother, Joseph, who had followed his sibling into the Marines and later followed him on a deployment to Afghanistan, accompanied the remains of his brother, who was promoted posthumously to sergeant, back to Dover.Thirteen days after that, on April 24, friends and family of Hines gathered for a memorial service. They talked "Star Wars." Then they played an excerpt from "The Imperial March," the horn-heavy theme made famous as an anthem to Darth Vader.It was beloved by Hines, his friends said.The investigation into the deaths of the three Marines continues. Although Trump has dismissed the suspected Russian payments as "fake news," Congress has begun hearings into the matter. Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that while the government so far lacks proof that any Russian bounties caused specific military casualties, "we are still looking.""We're not done," Milley told a House committee last week. "We're going to run this thing to ground."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:54:22 GMT

Trump tweets in Farsi to condemn 'deplorable' executions of three Iranian protestors
Donald Trump has tweeted in Farsi to condemn Iran‘s planned execution of three men arrested during protests against the Islamic regime.In the tweet appealing to stop the executions, Mr Trump said the death sentences sent a deplorable message to the world, ending the tweet with the trending hashtag DontExecute.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:16:24 GMT

Johnson accuses SNP of attempt to erect UK trade barriers as he rejects 'power grab' claims
Boris Johnson has accused the SNP of attempting to erect trade barriers between England and Scotland as he firmly rejected claims that his government had launched the “biggest power grab” of the devolution era. The UK Government will on Thursday unveil plans it says will ensure seamless trade within the UK after the Brexit transition period ends next year. Under the proposals, which will be put out to consultation, products meeting standards set by legislators in one part of the UK would have to be accepted in the other UK nations. The measure is designed to provide simplicity for businesses and to make it easier for Britain to strike trade deals with other nations. UK ministers fear trade agreements will be harder to negotiate if foreign companies have to meet different regulations or standards in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. The Prime Minister said that under the changes, which relate to policy areas that are nominally devolved but had previously been decided by the EU, devolved administrations would receive a swathe of new powers. Stormont will receive 157 new powers, Holyrood 111 and the Welsh Parliament 70, the UK Government claimed. However, proposals to write the principle of “mutual recognition” - meaning regulations from one part of the UK will be recognised across the country - into law will be strongly resisted by the SNP.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:16:16 GMT

Trump warns Iran against execution of three over protests
US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Wednesday against executing three people allegedly involved in protests in November 2019. "Three individuals were sentenced to death in Iran for participating in protests," he tweeted. Iran's judiciary said Tuesday that a court had upheld the death sentences for criminal actions during protests last November sparked by a hike in petrol prices.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 18:12:12 GMT

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