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Coronavirus: Global flare-ups show need for forced isolation of cases, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

In Australia, where Victoria state has been reporting record deaths, some 3,000 checks last month on people who should have been isolating at home found 800 were out and about. In Japan, where the virus has roared back, people are staying home but are not in isolation: 40 per cent of elderly patients are getting sick from family members in the same apartments.

The failure to effectively manage contagious people with mild or no symptoms is a driving factor behind some of the world’s worst resurgences.

 

Source: Coronavirus: Global flare-ups show need for forced isolation of cases, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

In Pictures: Family in cave home faces Israeli eviction | Palestine | Al Jazeera

Ahmed Amarneh, 30, stands in the kitchen of his cave home. Amarneh, a civil engineer, lives with his family in the northern West Bank village of Farasin, where Israel insists it must approve any new residential construction and can tear down homes built without permits. [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]

Ahmed Amarneh’s home, its wooden door leading into cushion-lined rooms, is not the first Palestinian residence in the occupied West Bank to receive a demolition notice from Israel.

But it may be the first built inside a cave that Israel has threatened to destroy.

 

Source: In Pictures: Family in cave home faces Israeli eviction | Palestine | Al Jazeera

President Trump orders ByteDance to divest from its U.S. TikTok business within 90 days

Beyond the pale – he does not have the power to do this – he may be able to ban it from doing business in US but he can’t order it to sell. Just playing bully-boy to get out of his bunker-boy image.

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that will force China’s ByteDance to sell or spin off its U.S. TikTok business within 90 days.

Epic Games CEO says Apple suit is about ‘basic freedoms,’ calls Apple a middleman

Kind of obvious – you pay to play. If you do not want easy access to Apple customers, you don’t pay to be in their store. If you want that access, you pay. If you are a restaurant that does not want to pay a percentage to a credit card company, you get fewer customers – period! A day after filing private antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said the decision to fight two of tech’s biggest powers is more about freedom than money.

Tim SweeneyEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses App Store policy with CNBC in July. | Source: CNBC

Sweeney made the case for Epic’s legal maneuvering, specifically as it applies to Apple, in a series of tweets on Friday. The executive characterized the fight as one for consumer and developer choice, not simply a play at more lucrative financial deals.

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Trump Encourages Racist Conspiracy Theory About Kamala Harris

President Trump said he heard that Ms. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee born in California, was not eligible for the ticket, repeating a theory that is rampant among his followers. Constitutional scholars quickly called his words false and irresponsible.

President Trump said he heard that Ms. Harris, the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee born in California, was not eligible for the ticket, repeating a theory that is rampant among his followers. Constitutional scholars quickly called his words false and irresponsible.

Mercy Mercy Me — Blogs Notes

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Thousands flood Belarus capital as detained protesters freed | News | DW | 14.08.2020

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Tens of thousands of people have marched in a fresh show of anger over the brutal police crackdown following the contested Belarusian election result. Many of the detained protesters say they were beaten in custody.

Source: Thousands flood Belarus capital as detained protesters freed | News | DW | 14.08.2020

CDC Says Those Infected By COVID-19 Have 3 Month Immunity – Gothamist

Centers of Disease Control and Prevention recently said that people who are infected with COVID-19 are conferred some, albeit perhaps not lasting immunity.

“People who have tested positive for COVID-19 do not need to quarantine or get tested again for up to three months as long as they do not develop symptoms again,” the CDC said in its updated guidance. “People who develop symptoms again within three months of their first bout of Covid-19 may need to be tested again if there is no other cause identified for their symptoms.”

 

Source: CDC Says Those Infected By COVID-19 Have 3 Month Immunity – Gothamist