Month: July 2020

The measles epidemic spreading across the US arrived in Michigan last month after a man travelled from New York to raise money for charity, health “New York man ‘infects 39 people with measles’ after driving across country to Michigan”

Islamic State has released video of the Sri Lankan Easter Sunday suicide bombers swearing allegiance to militant group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Bombers had struck “Isil releases video of Sri Lanka suicide bombers swearing allegiance amid growing evidence of security blunders”

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro declared victory over Tuesday’s attempted uprising, vowing retaliation against those who plotted a "coup" to remove him from office. "This will not “Maduro vows retaliation for coup attempt as he denies attempts to flee to Cuba”

All hostages have been released after a gunman on Tuesday held several people in a bar-tobacco shop in southwestern France. The suspect, armed and wearing a “Hostages released after Toulouse gunman held four women in southern France”

Poland’s Catholic Church says it is expecting a "wave" of reports of child sex abuse by priests as it struggles to cope with the impact “Polish Catholic Church expects ‘wave’ of child sex abuse reports after release of film on paedophilia”

North Korea has condemned plans by the Japanese military to develop a counter-attack computer virus as symptomatic of Tokyo’s “war hysteria”, with an analyst warning “North Korea hits out at Japan as cyber arms race heats up”

Hungarian police have taken the captain of a luxury river cruiser that collided with a tour boat on the River Danube in Budapest into custody, after the “Budapest boat collision: police launch criminal investigation as 7 die on the Danube”

Japan’s labour minister is in hot water with women after declaring during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday that wearing high heels “is necessary and reasonable” “Japan’s labour minister mocked for saying high heels ‘necessary and reasonable’ at work”

This article has an estimated read time of 9 minutes Behind a glass screen Linda Carty wipes away the tears as they fall onto her “Life in prison for the only British citizen on death row in America”

Nearly 100 whales held in an infamous “whale jail” in Russia’s far east have begun to be freed, state television announced during a call-in show “Whales are being released from Russian ‘jail’, says Putin during phone-in show”