This CV victim is named
Travel agent and industry legend James Kwan died at a Perth hospital on Sunday
His death in the early hours of the morning is Australia's first coronavirus fatality
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8062027/Coronavirus-crisis-deepens-Australian-authorities-scrambling-halt-inevitable-spread.html
Plane lands safely at Ben Gurion Airport after cockpit emergency
An easyJet flight from Berlin with 167 people on board touches down without issue after pilots report smoke in flight deck
By TOI STAFF
Today, 6:55 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/plane-lands-safely-at-ben-gurion-airport-after-cockpit-emergency/
Iran general on Pete Buttigieg: ‘Sad’ that gay man has chance at US presidency
Revolutionary Guards commander says Democrat’s candidacy shows ‘crisis, decadence’ of West
By TOI STAFF
Today, 5:45 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-general-on-pete-buttigieg-sad-that-gay-man-has-chance-at-us-presidency/
Michael Hay, who managed the longest-running law firm in Pyongyang, dies at 58
Lawyer was known for winning disputes in DPRK, despite its opaque legal system
Michael Hay, who founded and managed the longest-running foreign-backed law firm to be based in North Korea, died last Wednesday in South Korea, aged 58.
His death was confirmed by friends and former colleagues to NK News.
Hay – also a friend of this author – was well known among businesses and NGOs as one of the few lawyers to have ever successfully won commercial disputes in North Korea’s opaque legal system.
A dual British-French national and member of the New York bar, he founded Hay, Kalb & Associates in Pyongyang in 2004 after working for over a decade in the South Korean legal system.
His firm operated from the Pyongyang Hotel with a team comprising North Korean partners until 2016, when it suspended service amid growing international sanctions pressure and decreased foreign appetite to explore the DPRK market…..
https://www.nknews.org/2020/03/michael-hay-who-managed-the-longest-running-law-firm-in-pyongyang-dies-at-58/
https://www.nknews.org/2020/03/3920-now-under-quarantine-in-north-koreas-south-phyongan-and-kangwon-provinces/
Joe Biden boasts he can't wait to debate Donald Trump as his campaign is reinvigorated following his 'real comeback' primary win in South Carolina
By Katelyn Caralle, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
17:30, 01 Mar 2020 , updated 17:40, 01 Mar 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8062507/Biden-boasts-wait-debate-Trump-following-real-comeback-primary-win-South-Carolina.html
Slovakian opposition wins power in election overshadowed by murder of journalist
The 'Ordinary People' party ran on an anti-corruption message, ousting the centre-right
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Matthew Day
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1 March 2020 • 5:41pm
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The leader of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLANO) party, Igor Matovic, is a millionaire media mogul
Slovakia's main opposition party has crushed the governing party in a general election overshadowed by the murder of an investigative journalist and his partner in 2018.
Running on an anti-corruption ticket the Ordinary People (OLaNO) party won 25 per cent of the vote with over 99 per cent of the votes counted. Smer-SD, the centre-left governing party, saw its share of the vote fall to 18 per cent.
“We take the result as a request from the people who want us to clean up Slovakia,” said Igor Matovic, the 46-year-old millionaire media mogul who leads the OLaNO.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/01/slovakian-opposition-wins-power-election-overshadowed-murder/
Coronavirus uncertainty rules, but markets functioning OK: BIS
MARC JONES
LONDON
REUTERS
PUBLISHED 54 MINUTES AGO
The Bank for International Settlements said on Sunday that financial markets had functioned resiliently during last week’s coronavirus-sparked sell-off and this was a sign that post-crisis reforms were doing their job.
The BIS, dubbed the central bank to central banks, called the near $6 trillion wipeout in world stocks last week a “rude awakening” for investors, but said there were no signs of it having the potential to turn into a financial crisis.
“For all the turmoil and anxiety, both market functioning and financial intermediation more generally proved resilient,” the head of the BIS’ Monetary and Economic Department, Claudio Borio, said in the umbrella group’s latest quarterly report.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/article-coronavirus-uncertainty-rules-but-markets-functioning-ok-bis/
Coronavirus: South Korea sect leader to face homicide probe over deaths
The leader of a religious sect in South Korea could face a homicide investigation over some of the country's coronavirus deaths.
The city government of the capital Seoul has asked prosecutors to charge Lee Man-hee, the founder of the Shincheonji Church, and 11 others.
They are accused of hiding the names of some members as officials tried to track patients before the virus spread.
South Korea is battling the worst coronavirus outbreak outside China.
The country has reported 3,730 cases and 21 deaths so far. More than half of all infections involve members of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a fringe Christian group.
Authorities say Shincheonji members infected one another in the southern city of Daegu last month, before fanning out around the country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51695649
Pope Francis on brink: How Vatican leader was victim of ‘insulting attacks’ from rivals
POPE FRANCIS has come under increasing pressure in the Catholic Church - so much so that his allies had to defend him from "insulting attacks" after a key Vatican meeting turned hostile.
By CHARLIE BRADLEY
PUBLISHED: 17:27, Sun, Mar 1, 2020
……Featuring at the meeting were statuettes of “fertility goddess” Pachamama, a god worshipped predominantly in the Andes and also known as the ‘Earth Mother’.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1249456/Pope-Francis-news-vatican-leader-victim-insulting-attacks-catholic-church-spt
Mike Bloomberg 'addresses the nation' on the coronavirus crisis in presidential-style speech from a room resembling the Oval Office
By Hannah Skellern For Dailymail.com
00:26 01 Mar 2020, updated 09:16 01 Mar 2020
https://twitter.com/dailymail/status/1234166833395228673?s=21
Hamas, Islamic Jihad delegations to visit Moscow, Cairo
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF MARCH 1, 2020 19:55
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The Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups will be sending delegations to Moscow this week, according to Palestinian reports. A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Sunday to discuss recent clashes and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
https://m.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Hamas-Islamic-Jihad-delegations-to-visit-Moscow-Cairo-619417