Die einen befürworten Schutzmaßnahmen, die anderen protestieren vehement: Rhetoriker Olaf Kramer erklärt, warum die Coronakrise für heftige gesellschaftliche Spannungen sorgt - und wie wir miteinander reden sollten.

COVID-19 has killed at least 19,000 New Yorkers and dealt a body blow with lasting consequences to the city. Two paths lie ahead. If pandemics become common, then not only New York City but all of America’s service-based economy faces a bleak future. If this terrible plague is a unique event, then things will eventually get almost back to normal. To save both the nation’s biggest and most productive metropolis and tens of millions of service jobs across the county, we must invest enormously to prevent future pandemics.

The agency announced approval for the diagnostic method on Saturday. Cheaper and easier to administer than genetic tests for the virus, it could potentially expand to daily testing of millions.

Edwin Cabrera, a father of two, was unlocking his e-bike after dropping off a pizza on Fort George Hill near Fairview Ave. on May 3 when two suspects jumped out of the shadows and attacked him around 9 p.m.

While the city was on lockdown between March 23 and May 4, ACS received 3,855 new allegations of child neglect and abuse — 4,496 fewer cases than the 8,351 taken in by the child welfare agency at the same time last year.

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Các chuyên gia cảnh báo số lượng nhiễm trùng thực sự có thể cao hơn do tỷ lệ xét nghiệm thấp ở nhiều quốc gia.

Two residents of Washington County organize donations from community members to pay Washington County School District 15k+ lunch debt

Nearly a month after the Facebook page for The Official Quarantine Cookbook gained thousands of followers, the book is available to buy.

Former president Barack Obama harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an 'absolute chaotic disaster' during a conversation with ex-members of his administration, according to a recording obtained by Yahoo News.

Estudo da Fiocruz aponta aumento em torno 50% de novos casos nos municípios com até 20 mil habitantes nas duas últimas semanas.

Republicano perdeu seu principal discurso, os bons números econômicos, seis meses antes da eleição. Agora, luta para ser visto como bom gestor da crise.

A first half deficit proved too much to handle for the Boilermakers. Purdue also lost Elijah Sindelar and Rondale Moore to injury in the first half.

Brandon Newman's stock rose considerably in the past six months. The 2019 guard from Valparaiso will play at Montverde (Florida) Academy as a senior.

Dennis Barrett, an east Indianapolis native, died of the coronavirus in March. His wife remembers him as a devoted father and ambitious entrepreneur.

Robbie Amos, 66, "ate, lived and breathed law enforcement," says his wife. He died on April 3 after contracting the novel coronavirus.

Demonstrators describe an arrest and pepper ball use by IMPD during a protest over the death of Dreasjon Reed near 62nd Street and Michigan Road.

Emacs "predates Linux, and was once far more popular," writes LWN.net, while adding that the text editor "has fallen into relative obscurity over the years." Then it reports on a "mega-thread" on the emacs-devel mailing list about how to make Emacs more appealing and attractive to users: The discussion started with a post from "ndame" asking why Emacs is "so square"; the appearance of things like buttons could be improved with rounded corners, they said. Richard Stallman, one of the original authors of Emacs, seemed somewhat dismissive in his reply: "Perhaps we should implement a mode that puts cosmetics on Emacs so it will appeal to those who judge by the surface of things." But Stefan Kangas thought there was more to it than that: I think it's unfortunate if we assume that this is all bells and whistles. Graphical design elements can also improve usability. I also don't know that it's helpful to assume that the rest of the world will take the enlightened stance.... He wondered if there was "any reason not to improve the default look". Stallman said that there are some technical barriers in finding someone interested in and capable of doing the work needed, but there is an overarching problem that needs to be addressed first: The code to interface Emacs to X-based GUIs needs rewriting by an expert, and has needed it for decades. Until it gets that rewrite, changes in it are likely to break something. Stallman did agree that the graphical design could improve usability, "but I have a feeling that the changes that would help are deeper issues than the shape of corners". It was a long and interesting discussion, touching on the popularity of both Vim and Visual Studio Code, while another post questioned whether Emacs should even be prioritizing its menu bar and tool bar. One post suggested "starter kits" to make the text editor more friendly to newcomers, another suggested making Cntrl-C cut-and-paste the default key binding, and one asked whether it was Emacs' terminology and keyboard shortcuts that might be confusing to users coming from Microsoft Word. "You are basically making a commitment to being or becoming a power user..." argued another post. "If you just want to do 'casual' text editing emacs is a very weird choice in 2020."

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The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) is the latest organization to weigh in on the Co-op Refinery labour dispute, saying demonstrations at Co-op facilities could negatively affect farmer’s seeding.

A low-pressure trough pushing into Northern California from the Pacific will bring widespread showers to the part of the state most in need of rain.

The Duke of Sussex sent a special video message to mark what would have been the opening ceremony of the 2020 Invictus Games.

The Vigi Home, located in the Town of Mont-Royal, has logged 64 deaths related to COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

Lockdown words of love and comfort across Ireland and the globe during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the latest MOTD podcast the experts discussed the top 10 Ballon d'Or winners of the Premier League era - and here's how you ranked them.

Laurie Few knew their time with her father Allan was short when he tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday.

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While the weather may have looked like mid-November in Brockville Saturday morning, that didn't stop people from donating to the Brockville community food drive.

How coping with OCD prepared one man for the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.

Prince Charles praises their "dedication, resilience and hard work" in a letter left outside his home.

Barack Obama has described Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as a "chaotic disaster".

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Not only are tourists still coming, but they've been arriving in increasing numbers in recent years, according to government data.

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Members of the Joint Operational Committee in Tshwane is in self-isolation after one member tested positive for Covid-19, spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo has told News24.

While the phased-in reopening of schools in South Africa in the midst of Covid-19 remains provisional and sensitive, the Western Cape Education Department has advised principals and school management teams to wait a few more days before returning.

Messages to mothers and words of support were front and centre as Edmontonians cruised by MacTaggart Place retirement residence on Saturday afternoon.

A Canadian department store chain is calling it quits after more than a century in business.

Manchester United and Everton have been put on alert by the news that Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot is willing to move to the Premier League.

Brighton chief executive Paul Barber has warned a premature return to football action from the coronavirus pandemic could "cost lives".

Former New Zealand head coach and current England defence chief John Mitchell believes some good may come for rugby union from the coronavirus.

After six weeks of negotiating, the UN Security Council was close to agreeing on a resolution for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seems fair, right? Let's agree to stop killing each other for a while, so we can focus on the virus that's killing us instead?

China proposed that the text explicitly mention a commitment by member nations to support the efforts of the World Health Organization — who Donald Trump has blamed (without evidence) for withholding information on the coronavirus outbreak.

So the US looked at the resolution and said "LOL no," despite last minute efforts to reach a compromise. As The Guardian reports:

On Thursday night, French diplomats thought they had engineered a compromise in which the resolution would mention UN “specialized health agencies” (an indirect, if clear, reference to the WHO).

The Russian mission signaled that it wanted a clause calling for the lifting of sanctions that affected the delivery of medical supplies, a reference to US punitive measures imposed on Iran and Venezuela. However, most security council diplomats believed Moscow would withdraw the objection or abstain in a vote rather than risk isolation as the sole veto on the ceasefire resolution.

While everyone else seemed game to go along with these compromises, the US insisted it was one big Chinese trick. As one diplomat told CNN:  "This discussion has been taken hostage by issues that do not have to do with the real issues at stake. Instead it has been transformed into a fight between the US and China. Read the rest

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Canadians working aboard two cruise ships who weren't allowed to come to shore because of concerns about COVID-19 are finally able to return home.

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Now that Michael Caputo, who was previously a target of the Mueller investigation, has been cleared, he has released some pretty damning text messages from the virulently anti-Trump lawmaker from California, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D). The text messages appear to prove that Swalwell, who has spent the last 3 1/2 years calling for Trump’s impeachment, […]

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A crowd descended on the Manitoba Legislature Building Saturday afternoon, demanding an end to the COVID-19 quarantine.

Research Event

Event participants

Trine Flockhart, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Academy
Patrick W Quirk, Fellow, Transatlantic Academy
Chair: Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, SOAS

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Event participants

Ambassador Zhong Jianhua, China’s Special Representative for African Affairs
Chair: Alex Vines OBE, Research Director, Area Studies and International Law; Head, Africa Programme, Chatham House