world news 200619

BEIJING, Jun 20 – Former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei pleaded guilty at a trial in China on Thursday to accepting $2.1 million in bribes — a remarkable fall from grace for the former vice minister of public security. The Tianjin No.1 Intermediate Court said Meng “showed repentance” during …...

On Thursday, 20 June 2019, Naspers Foundry announced its first deal, with a $2.4 million investment in South African tech startup, SweepSouth. The startup is an online cleaning services platform that connects clients to trusted and reliable domestic cleaners.... Read more via IT News Africa...

The woman, Denali Brehmer, even took Snapchat photos and videos of the homicide as proof, according to court documents filed Friday. Duped by a man she met on the internet who lived nearly 4,000 miles away, an 18-year-old Alaska woman lured her best friend to a … Read more via Pulse Nigeria...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s next prime minister will be a man in his 50s who went to Oxford University — either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, the two finalists selected Thursday in a race to lead the governing Conservative Party. Johnson, a flamboyant former foreign secretary and ex-mayor …...

Ebola has claimed around 1400 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo while there are reports that two people have lost their lives in western Uganda. The Conversation Africa’s Ozayr Patel asked Janusz Paweska about how the disease has spread and what can be done. How is … Read more via...

Last week the Business Roundtable, an organization of large company leaders, released its quarterly CEO Economic Outlook Index. The index tracks what executives expect for sales, capital spending, and hiring over the next six months... Read more via Forbes – http://bit.ly/2L4eBcX Get more...

After a Chinese woman complained about stomach pains for more than 10 years, doctors performed surgery and found the cause of her pain was a foot-long parasitic worm inside of her intestines, Fox News reported. Before her surgery, the 41-year-old woman had gone to multiple doctors for her...

GENEVA (AP) — The gathering on the second floor of the Saudi consulate featured an unlikely collection: a forensic doctor, intelligence and security officers, agents of the crown prince’s office. As they waited for their target to arrive, one asked how they would carry out the body. Not …...

At least 12 Americans have died in the Dominican Republic over the past year in suspicious circumstances, prompting international focus on the country as investigators try to find any links between the deaths as well as the causes. Autopsies for some of the victims have indicated heart attacks...

After Iran shot down a U.S. drone, President Donald Trump speculated that "it could have been someone loose and stupid" behind the surface-to-air missile strike. The president spoke about the issue Thursday, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House national security adviser John...

Facebook usage has plummeted over the last year, even as the company continues to insist that its use has stayed stable or even grown in the same period, according to data seen by the Guardian. Since April 2018, the first full month after the news of the Cambridge … Read more via the...

Campaigners have won a legal challenge over the UK government's decision to allow arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which is engaged in the war in Yemen. Campaign Against Arms Trade argued the decision to continue to license military equipment for export to the Gulf state was unlawful..... Read...

The top line out of the new United Nations report released Wednesday on the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is that there is “credible evidence” that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and other high-level officials are personally liable for the grisly murder. But the 101-page...

A smartphone app that matches people with their nearest abortion provider launches across Canada on Wednesday. The web-based app was developed by Waterloo region's Shore Centre, a sexual health resource centre.... Read more via “sexual health” – Google News – http://bit.ly/2x6Suum Get more...

Two years after their child "comes out" as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB), many parents still say that it is moderately or very hard for them to adjust to the news, according to a study published today. Those responses are the same, on average Read more via “sexual health” – Google News –...

A study of people prescribed PrEP over a four-year period at a large centre in Los Angeles has found that HIV incidence in people taking PrEP was more than 95% lower than among service users who discontinued PrEP, and at least 92% lower than among the clinic population in general.... Read...

The comment section on YouTube is notorious for its generally low-quality and otherwise awful content. Users get into fights with strangers, the occasional scammer peddles their garbage, desperate creators beg for viewers, and trolls stir up drama with incendiary comments.... Many users avoid...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, faced an onslaught of 14 independent shareholder proposals during its annual meeting on Wednesday, most criticizing the concentration of power in the hands of a few executives and all demanding some kind of structural change to make the company more...

(Bloomberg) — Former Vice President Joe Biden told affluent donors Tuesday that he wanted their support and — perhaps unlike some other Democratic presidential candidates — wouldn’t be making them political targets because of their wealth. “Remember, I got in trouble with some of … Read more...

Parents brawled at a children’s baseball game in Lakewood, Colorado, in a wild free-for-all captured on video, authorities said. Four people were cited for disorderly conduct and fighting in public after Saturday’s melee on the field at Westgate Elementary School, and police are asking for …...