Chinese coronavirus whistle-blower who was punished for sounding the alarm over the outbreak is awarded the title of 'advanced individual' by Beijing after he died of the disease

By Tracy You For Mailonline

13:45 GMT 05 Mar 2020 , updated 13:53 GMT 05 Mar 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8078299/Late-coronavirus-whistle-blower-medic-Li-Wenliang-awarded-China.html

Thousands of Virgin Media and Sky broadband customers are left without internet as massive outage strikes across the UK

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline

12:50 GMT 05 Mar 2020 , updated 13:43 GMT 05 Mar 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8078505/Thousands-Virgin-Media-Sky-broadband-customers-left-without-internet.html

Ukraine’s prime minister ousted as President Zelensky seeks ‘new brains’

Oleksiy Honcharuk, who was recorded saying president knows ‘nothing’ about economy, forced to resign; Denys Shmygal confirmed as his replacement

By AP

Today, 3:58 pm

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraines-prime-minister-ousted-as-president-zelensky-seeks-new-brains/

Kim Jong-un sends 'get well soon' wishes to South Korea

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/kim-jong-un-sends-get-well-soon-wishes-to-south-korea

Mohammad Haj Abolghasemi, an official of the Basij Resistance Force—a paramilitary arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), died on Tuesday in a Tehran hospital from the coronavirus, The Levant reported. State media reported his demise without citing the cause of death, however several users online, including one user who said Abolghasemi was his sister’s brother-in-law, suggested he died due to coronavirus, The Levant reported.

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-east/iran-news/senior-iranian-security-official-succumbs-to-coronavirus-as-rouhani-describes-countrywide-infestation/2020/03/05/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11100557/flybe-flights-cancelled-airline-collapse/

Moldova central bank officials detained over $1 bln fraud

By Alexandar Tanas

ReutersMarch 5, 2020, 2:58 PM GMT+1

By Alexandar Tanas

CHISINAU, March 5 (Reuters) - Moldova has detained two current and two former senior central bank officials on suspicion of involvement in a $1 billion theft in 2014-2015 that shook the nation, authorities said on Thursday.

The disappearance of that money from three banks - Banca de Economii, Banca Sociala and Unibank - plunged the impoverished former Soviet republic into economic and political crisis and was dubbed locally the "theft of the century".

https://news.yahoo.com/moldova-central-bank-officials-detained-135833159.html

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Barr names new chief of staff

Will Levi spent the last two years helping the attorney general navigate several hot-button issues at the center of Trump’s campaign against the “deep state.”

Attorney General William Barr

Attorney General William Barr | Getty Images

By DANIEL LIPPMAN

03/05/2020 05:01 AM EST

Attorney General William Barr has named Will Levi as his new chief of staff, according to two Justice Department officials familiar with the matter.

Levi has spent the last two years as one of Barr’s seven counselors, helping the attorney general navigate several hot-button issues at the center of President Donald Trump’s campaign against the “deep state.” He assisted Barr on efforts to revise the government’s domestic spying powers, and also has worked on other national security, criminal and civil matters at DOJ.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/bill-barr-chief-of-staff-levi-121804