BBC News - Zambia on brink of defaulting on foreign debt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54928836
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54928836
BBC News
Zambia on brink of defaulting on foreign debt
Coronavirus has aggravated pre-existing financial pressures, including a $12bn external debt load.
BBC News - Covid: Romania hospital blaze kills at least 10 infected patients
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54947530
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54947530
BBC News
Covid: Romania hospital blaze kills at least 10 infected patients
At least 10 die as oxygen used to treat the patients helps spread the fire in Piatra Neamt.
BBC News - Australian 'war crimes': Elite troops killed Afghan civilians, report finds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-54996581
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-54996581
BBC News
Australian 'war crimes': Elite troops killed Afghan civilians, report finds
A misconduct inquiry uncovers a "shameful record" of a "warrior culture" among some soldiers.
BBC News - Biden’s inner circle get key cabinet posts as John Kerry named climate tsar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55046714
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55046714
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Biden cabinet: John Kerry named climate envoy as inner circle get key posts
Joe Biden is nominating one of the leading architects of the Paris climate agreement as his climate envoy.
The World View
https://twitter.com/RojavaNetwork/status/1331196671280209922?s=19
"This is all, certainly very clever stuff. What, as they say, could possibly go wrong?
The first thing to say is that, with something this new, we don’t really know. It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe. We are told that none of the mRNA can get into the nucleus of the cell, where it could become incorporated into the DNA. I hope so. Could it trigger an immune cascade? I hope not.
I know that the researchers will be looking very, very, closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge. If they are not, they damned well should be. However, the timelines here are very short. It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines. Here is it happening in, effectively, weeks."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507587-covid19-vaccine-safe-coronavirus/
The first thing to say is that, with something this new, we don’t really know. It could be that it is absolutely 100 percent safe. We are told that none of the mRNA can get into the nucleus of the cell, where it could become incorporated into the DNA. I hope so. Could it trigger an immune cascade? I hope not.
I know that the researchers will be looking very, very, closely at the novel safety issues that could emerge. If they are not, they damned well should be. However, the timelines here are very short. It normally takes many years to create safe and effective vaccines. Here is it happening in, effectively, weeks."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507587-covid19-vaccine-safe-coronavirus/
RT
As a doctor, people ask me if it’s safe to take a new Covid vaccine. Given that criticism is risky, here’s my very careful answer
The type of vaccine being developed against the virus has never – outside of Ebola – been used before. The trials have been extremely rushed & involved testing only small numbers. What could possibly go wrong?
BBC News - Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated near Tehran
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55105934
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55105934
BBC News
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran
Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror".
BBC News - China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55192692
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55192692
BBC News
China becomes second nation to plant flag on the Moon
It becomes the second nation to unfurl its banner on the lunar surface, more than 50 years after the US.