Anxiety over Supreme Court arguments pervades Coming Out Day
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-13 14:16:11Z
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China reports new African swine fever outbreak in northwest province
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-13 15:55:46Z
The virus, fatal to pigs but not contagious to human beings, has significantly slashed pig output in the world's largest herd since the deadly disease was first detected in August last year. China has reported such outbreaks in all its provinces on the mainland, as well as in Hong Kong and Hainan island in the south.
Multiple arrests in Hong Kong as "flashmob" protests hit pro-Bejing targets
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-13 14:31:46Z
Riot police clashed with anti-government protesters across Hong Kong Sunday as masked activists vandalised businesses deemed sympathetic to Beijing in another weekend of chaos in the financial hub. Local television networks also broadcast footage of a man beaten bloody by protesters after they found a baton in his bag and suspected him of being an undercover officer. During cat-and-mouse encounters on Sunday officers made dozens of arrests, but there were fewer protesters than have taken to the streets more recently during the four-month long protest movement.
Anxiety over Supreme Court arguments pervades Coming Out Day
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-13 14:16:11Z
National Coming Out Day festivities were tempered this year by anxiety that some LGBT folk may have to go back into the closet so they can make a living, depending on what the Supreme Court decides about workplace discrimination law. "I want all members of our community to feel supported by the government, and often for a lot of us and a lot of friends of mine, it's the first time that they feel represented," said Jessica Goldberg, a bisexual senior at the University of Colorado Denver. This year that includes Philadelphia's OutFest on Sunday, billed as the largest National Coming Out Day event, many LGBT people said.
At least 24 dead, over 170 injured after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in Japan
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-12 22:40:23Z
The day before Hagibis made landfall in Japan, residents of Tokyo were scraping for the last supermarkets had to sell across the city as they prepared for what the Japan Times reported Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike had called "a typhoon of unprecedented scale."Hagibis rapidly strengthened in the West Pacific to become the third super typhoon of the season last week. The storm went from a tropical depression with sustained winds of 48 km/h (30 mph) to a super typhoon producing winds of 241 km/h (150 mph) only 48 hours later.At a peak strength of 257 km/h (160 mph), the typhoon tied with Wutip from February as the most powerful tropical cyclone in the West Pacific Basin this year....
Deadly clashes break out again in Iraq, 11 killed in capital
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-05 08:15:29Z
Clashes between police and protesters killed 11 people in Baghdad on Saturday in a new flare-up of anti-government unrest, as security forces deployed in their hundreds to keep demonstrations away from central squares in the Iraqi capital. Police and medical sources reported the casualties after days of violence around anti-government protests, bringing the toll in Baghdad and other cities this week to at least 88. One square where protesters had gathered in their hundreds in previous days was packed with hundreds of policemen and other security personnel.
Eric Trump: Media would be camping outside my home if I did what Hunter Biden did
- Health/Medications/Drugs
- 2019-10-03 02:45:06Z
Eric Trump weighs in on media hypocrisy over Hunter Biden's ties to China and Ukraine.
