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May
07
2021
By The African Mirror
COVID-19 spreads to rural India, villages ill-equipped to fight it

COVID-19 spreads to rural India, villages ill-equipped to fight it

WORLD
SHILPA JAMKHANDIKAR and TANVI MEHTA HOPES that India's rampaging second wave of COVID-19 is peaking were set back on Thursday as record daily infections and deaths were reported and as the virus spread from cities to villages that were poorly equipped to cope. Government modelling had forecast a peak by Wednesday in infections that have overwhelmed the healthcare system, with hospitals running out of beds and medical oxygen. A record 412,262 new cases and 3,980 deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, taking total infections past 21 million and the overall death toll to 230,168, Health Ministry data showed.…
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May
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Israel’s odd couple: rivals who could topple Netanyahu together

Israel’s odd couple: rivals who could topple Netanyahu together

WORLD
MAAYAN LUBELL ONE is a centre-left avowed secularist who says the Palestinians should get a state. The other is a firebrand of the religious hard right who wants to annex most of the occupied West Bank. Meet the men from Israel's opposite political poles who could topple Benjamin Netanyahu. If Israel's longest serving prime minister is brought down after four inconclusive elections in two years, it will not be because his opponents rallied the nation behind a new political programme. It will be because two men who agree on little else have decided to make a deal. After Netanyahu failed…
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Jun
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Hardline judge Raisi leads in Iranian presidential election, says official

Hardline judge Raisi leads in Iranian presidential election, says official

WORLD
HARDLINE judge Ebrahim Raisi leads Iran's presidential election, an interior ministry official said today, a day after millions of Iranians voted in a contest that critics boycotted over economic woes and political restrictions. Raisi had so far won 17.8 million votes, the official said in televised news conference. More than 28 million Iranians out of 59 million eligible voters cast ballots, the official said. Raisi, a 60-year-old Shi'ite cleric who is subject to U.S. sanctions for alleged human rights abuses, had been widely expected to win the contest, thanks to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's support. Raisi's only moderate rival…
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Jun
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Chinese, Indian workers among 11 killed in Nepal floods, 25 missing

Chinese, Indian workers among 11 killed in Nepal floods, 25 missing

WORLD
GOPAL SHARMA LANDSLIDES and flash floods triggered by heavy rain across Nepal this week killed 11 people including one Indian and two Chinese workers at a development project, while 25 people were missing elsewhere, officials have said. The bodies of the three workers were recovered near the town of Melamchi in Sindhupalchowk district, northeast of Kathmandu, which was hit by flash floods on Wednesday that also forced many people from their homes, district administrators said in a statement. "The foreign nationals were working for a Chinese company that is building a drinking water project," district official Baburam Khanal told Reuters.…
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Jun
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Ukraine’s inseparable couple ditches the handcuffs and parts ways

Ukraine’s inseparable couple ditches the handcuffs and parts ways

WORLD
MARGARYTA CHORNOKONDRATENKO AFTER 123 days handcuffed together to save their on-again-off-again relationship, Ukrainians Alexandr Kudlay and Viktoria Pustovitova have split up, shedding their bonds on national TV and saying the experiment had brought home uncomfortable truths. The young couple from the eastern city of Kharkiv decided to handcuff themselves together on Valentine's Day, in a last-ditch attempt to break the cycle of breaking up and making up. Throughout the experiment, which they documented to a growing social media following, they did everything together, from grocery shopping to cigarette breaks. They took turns to use the bathroom and take showers. Pustovitova,…
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Jun
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Israeli policeman charged with manslaughter of autistic Palestinian

Israeli policeman charged with manslaughter of autistic Palestinian

WORLD
MAAYAN LUBELL and RAMI AYYUB AN Israeli policeman has been charged with manslaughter in the killing of an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem a year ago, the Justice Ministry said yesterday in an incident that sparked protests and widespread condemnation. Iyad al-Halaq, 32, was on his way to volunteer at a special needs school on May 30, 2020, when police chased and killed him. The officer, who was not named in the published indictment, faces a jail sentence of up to 12 years if convicted. At the time of his death, Halaq was "holding nothing in his hands and doing…
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May
06
2021
By The African Mirror
In COVID-hit India, a 26-year-old doctor decides who lives and who dies

In COVID-hit India, a 26-year-old doctor decides who lives and who dies

WORLD
ALASDAIR PAL ROHAN Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn't even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. As India's healthcare system teeters on the verge of collapse during a brutal second wave of the novel coronavirus, Aggarwal makes those decisions during a 27-hour workday that includes a grim overnight shift in charge of the emergency room at his New Delhi hospital.…
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Jun
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Inside Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, China’s besieged liberal media icon

Inside Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, China’s besieged liberal media icon

WORLD
JAMES POMFRET and JESSIE PANG JOURNALISTS at Apple Daily, a feisty Hong Kong newspaper, had been bracing for some kind of a crackdown. The splashy Chinese-language tabloid - which mixes celebrity gossip, investigations of the powerful and pro-democracy editorials - has increasingly been under the scrutiny of the authorities since the arrest last August of owner Jimmy Lai, who remains in jail for joining unauthorised rallies. Still, Thursday's early-morning raid by 500 police officers was a shock, not only to Apple Daily staffers but to journalists throughout China's freest city and, more broadly, people concerned about eroding press freedom in…
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May
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Some 200 rights groups push for U.N. arms embargo on Myanmar

Some 200 rights groups push for U.N. arms embargo on Myanmar

WORLD
MICHELLE NICHOLS MORE than 200 civil society groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have called on the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar to help protect civilians peacefully protesting a military coup. Since the military seized power on February 1 and ousted an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar has seen daily protests and a surge of violence with security forces killing hundreds of civilians. "Imposing a global arms embargo on Myanmar is the minimum necessary step the Security Council should take in response to the military's escalating violence,"…
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Jun
18
2021
By The African Mirror
Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking U.S. slavery’s end

Biden signs Juneteenth bill, creating holiday marking U.S. slavery’s end

WORLD
TREVOR HUNNICUTT and NANDITA BOSE U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris signed a bill into law on Thursday afternoon to make June 19 a federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans. The bill, which was passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after a unanimous vote in the Senate, marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War. "Juneteenth marks both a…
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