Nigeria news today headlines : Thursday 9th July 2020
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Germany Targets Gender Gap With Quotas For Business, Politics
Germany is pushing to narrow the gender gap with new targets aimed at increasing the role of women in board rooms and in the country’s largest political party. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal that would increase the number of companies required to have at least 30% women on their supervisory boards …
Teenager Died Of Heart Attack After Being Forcibly Restrained
A black teenager held down and restrained by several men for throwing a sandwich at a youth facility in Michigan later died of a heart attack. Detroit attorney Geoffrey Fieger said on Tuesday that 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks had been pushed and pinned down because he threw a sandwich. Surveillance video shared on Tuesday showed at least seven …
COVID-19 Exposes America’s Racial Disparities
Covid-19 rarely assaults children with the force it uses against adults, especially older people. But some kids who have been infected with the coronavirus develop a potentially fatal condition that brings fever, shock and organ failure. For some reason, this rare “multisystem inflammatory syndrome” afflicts Black children at significantly higher rates than White children. The …
Two Dead, Several Injured After Rock Falls In Austria’s Styria
Two people have died and several more have been injured after a rockfall at Bärenschützklamm Gorge in Austria’s Styria on Wednesday. According to Kronen Zeitung, one of the bridges in the gorge was torn away. Police and mountain rescue teams have arrived at the scene, the paper said, adding that canyoning experts were also asked to …
COVID-19: Former Iraq Security Salwart Appointed Anti-Pandemic Supremo
A neurologist-turned-politician has been tasked with leading Iraq’s efforts to contain the coronavirus, as the government contends with spiking death tolls and mounting criticism. Muwaffaq Al Rubaie was appointed this week as secretary of the Higher Health and National Safety Committee to Combat the Novel Coronavirus, the country’s official news agency reported. The committee, which …
China Urges US To Reduce Nuclear Arsenal
Chinese officials said Wednesday that the country would gladly join trilateral nuclear negotiations with Russia and the U.S., provided that the U.S. was willing to reduce its nuclear arsenal to the scale of China’s. Reuters reported that a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry called the U.S. invitation to join nuclear talks with the Trump administration and …
Journalists Across Russia Protest Ivan Safronov’s Arrest On Treason Charges
Journalists in cities across Russia have begun holding single-person demonstrations outside of regional Federal Security Service (FSB) offices, in support of Ivan Safronov — a former Kommersant and Vedomosti defense correspondent, and Roscosmos communications advisor, who was arrested on treason charges on July 7. The investigation accused Safronov of passing classified information to Czech intelligence about Russia’s military cooperation with Middle Eastern and …
Facebook Trump Stance Paves Way to Voter Suppression – Report
An independent civil rights auditor lambasted Facebook Inc.’s handling of President Donald Trump’s posts on elections, arguing the company is opening the door to voter suppression. Civil liberties advocate Laura Murphy, who was hired by Facebook to review discrimination on the platform, said the company failed in May to apply its voter suppression rules to …
Forest Fires Kill Six In Ukraine’s Region
Authorities deployed water-bombing planes, the national armed forces and hundreds of firefighters. High winds and soaring temperatures have helped spread the fires in the Luhansk region, near areas held by Russian-backed separatist forces. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the area and promised compensation for those affected. Temporary accommodation would be arranged for people who had lost …
Teacher Who Married Boy She Raped Dies At 58
Mary Kay Letourneau was convicted of second-degree child rape in 1997 after becoming pregnant by Vili Fualaau when he was 12 or 13 and she was 34. She gave birth to their second daughter in prison in 1998. After serving her prison term the couple married in 2005. They separated after 12 years of marriage. Ms …
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