Day: 4 June 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic is ringing in systemic alterations in the way wherein the branches of Government in Canada operate. The country’s Supreme Court has announced that it will, initially in history, start virtual hearings. That came as the Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, equivalent of the Lok Sabha, said technology is at spot for start remote voting. The Canadian Supreme Court has released a long list of matters that this will hear via video conferencing starting next week. In a statement, Chief Justice Richard Wagner said, “While the Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to seal our building to physical visitors for everyone’s safety and health, it hasn’t stopped us from doing our work. We are excited to invite everyone to our virtual courtroom for the first time.?, even though we...

Former US defence secretary James Mattis joined White House protesters in spirit on Wednesday having a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump’s handling from the protests calling him the only real President in the lifetime “who will not try to unite the American people - fails to even pretend to try”. Mattis is the first former Trump cabinet member into the future out so publicly to criticise the president. Also, he joins an increasing selection of past and present top defence leaders who have either explicitly criticised Trump or distanced themselves from him for utilizing US military personnel against protesters, specially individuals who brutally swept aside demonstrators to create method for the President’s now-infamous photo-op at the church, with a copy in the Bible at hand. “Dona...

George Floyd, the African-American, who died in police custody last month, had tested positive for the coronavirus in April, according to the medical examiner’s report. A written report within the The Big Apple Times (NYT) cited the complete autopsy released from the Hennepin County medical examiner and said that the 46-year-old had tested positive to the coronavirus on April 3. The county’s top medical examiner Andrew Baker claimed that the Minnesota Department of Health had swabbed Floyd’s nose after his death and that he had tested positive to the virus, the NYT report said. The positive result during the time of his death was likely an enduring positive be a consequence of his previous infection, it said. The report added that there is no indication how the virus played...

President Donald Trump confronted his Defense secretary, Mark Esper, after the Pentagon chief publicly opposed the idea of deploying the military to contain protests, according to people familiar with the matter. Separately, the president later asked top advisers if they thought Esper could still be effective in his position, two people familiar with the discussions said on Wednesday night. At a news conference within the afternoon, the president’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, tiptoed around whether Esper’s job was safe, saying only that he remained in their post. Neither the White House nor the Pentagon immediately responded to requests for reply to Wednesday night. Esper met with Trump in the Oval Office after telling reporters with the Pentagon that active-duty mil...

A group of hackers with a history of targeting healthcare organizations executed a prosperous ransomware attack in the week in the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF confirmed it absolutely was the objective of an “illegal intrusion” but declined to spell out which percentage of its IT network may have been compromised. Researchers with the university are among those leading American antibody testing and numerous studies for possible coronavirus treatments, including research on anti-malarial drugs touted by President Donald Trump like a possible remedy, then refuted by scientists. If any, information may have been compromised,” Farley said in a statement, the university has alerted security experts and law enforcement of the attack, which didn’t affect its patient car...

South Korea said Thursday it planned to push new laws to ban activists from flying anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border after North Korea threatened to end an inter-Korean military agreement reached in 2018 to reduce tensions if Seoul fails to prevent the protests. The South’s desperate try to keep alive a faltering diplomacy will more than likely trigger debates over freedom of speech in just one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies. Sending balloons across the border has been a common activist tactic for years, but North Korea considers it an attack on its government. Defectors and other activists in recent weeks have used balloons to fly leaflets criticizing the North’s authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un over his nuclear ambitions and dismal human rights record. While Seoul ...