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Gaza Breaks Coronavirus Quarantine to Fire Rockets at Israel
A rocket was fired at Israel from Gaza on Friday evening despite coronavirus restrictions, sending Israelis from the isolation in their homes into crowded bomb shelters. “IDF planes and tanks attacked Hamas military positions and infrastructure used for underground activity in the northern Gaza Strip a short time ago,” the IDF spokesperson stated. “The attacks were carried out in response to the firing of a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel earlier this evening.” The decision to fire rockets at Israel comes right after Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, closed the mosques due to the coronavirus. Hamas also announced that parties and gatherings of mourners would be banned and event halls, restaurants and cafes would be closed.
March 29, 2020
Lebanon protesters defy coronavirus lockdown, take to streets
Dozens of Lebanese people took to the streets Sunday night to protest the government’s measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, which they said would push the country’s most vulnerable communities deeper into poverty. Spontaneous demonstrations erupted in Beirut’s southern suburbs and the northern city of Tripoli as protesters decried the lockdown that has been in force for more than two weeks to curb the COVID-19 outbreak. On Friday night, security forces forcibly removed dozens of tents in Downtown Beirut that had become a permanent fixture of the city since the outbreak of mass protests in October. A handful of protesters were arrested and later released for attempting to prevent the tents’ removal and burning tires across the main road leading to the square. Interior Minister Mohammad Fahmi said in a televised interview the following day that the removal of the encampment was due to “increasing trespassing and attacks on private property.” However, many protesters accused the government of using coronavirus measures as a cover to remove the final remnants of the mass uprising against the ruling class.
March 31, 2020
Saudi-UAE coalition carries out air raids on Yemen’s Sanaa
The Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen carried out more than a dozen air strikes on the capital Sanaa, the first such attacks on the city in months. According to Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, the coalition launched 19 air raids on Monday. No casualties were reported so far. The attacks on Sanaa came after Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles the Houthis said they had launched on Saturday towards Riyadh and southern parts of the kingdom near the Yemeni border. The Houthi attack coincided with the fifth anniversary of Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen’s civil war. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed al-Attab, reporting from Sanaa, said about 25 air strikes hit the capital on Monday, the first such attack on the city in months.
March 30, 2020
Syrian air defenses intercept hostile targets over Homs
Trump, Erdogan speak by phone, ‘stress need’ for ceasefires in Syria & Libya
Syrian air defences have intercepted “hostile targets” over the city of Homs, state news agency SANA reported Tuesday. State television said the air defence system had downed Israeli missiles. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined on Tuesday the need for ceasefires in Syria and Libya during the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said. The two spoke by phone on efforts to “defeat the virus and bolster the global economy,” according to its statement. They “agreed it is more important now than ever for countries in conflict, particularly Syria and Libya, to adhere to ceasefires and work toward resolution,” it said.
March 31, 2020
Iran says ‘terrorist’ attack inside Turkey halts natural gas exports
Iran said on Tuesday its natural gas exports to Turkey have stopped after an attack on a pipeline inside the neighboring country, an Iranian official told state TV. “This morning, terrorists attacked a natural gas pipeline inside Turkey near Iran’s Bazargan border with Turkey …Flow of gas has been halted,” said Mehdi Jamshidi-Dana, an official at Iran’s national Gas Co.
March 31, 2020
EU launches new naval mission to police Libya arms embargo
The European Union announced Tuesday the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the U.N. arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants to Europe’s shores. The new operation, dubbed Irini, the Greek word for “peace,” will start work for a year from Wednesday. The European Council said it will have as “its core task the implementation of the U.N. arms embargo through the use of aerial, satellite and maritime assets.” “In particular the mission will be able to carry out inspections of vessels on the high seas off the coast of Libya suspected to be carrying arms or related material to and from Libya,” a statement said. It will also gather information about illegal fuel and oil smuggling from Libya and help build up the Libyan coast guard, including by training its personnel.
March 31, 2020
Coronavirus job losses could total 47 million, unemployment rate may hit 32%, Fed estimates
Capital One got CFTC waiver after oil price plunge increased swap exposure
Justice Department Investigating Lawmakers for Possible Insider Trading
Trump Calls For $2T Infrastructure Package In Phase 4 Stimulus
Millions of Americans already have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis and the worst of the damage is yet to come, according to a Federal Reserve estimate. Economists at the Fed’s St. Louis district project total employment reductions of 47 million, which would translate to a 32.1% unemployment rate, according to a recent analysis of how bad things could get. The projections are even worse than St. Louis Fed President James Bullard’s much-publicized estimate of 30%. They reflect the high nature of at-risk jobs that ultimately could be lost to a government-induced economic freeze aimed at halting the coronavirus spread. “These are very large numbers by historical standards, but this is a rather unique shock that is unlike any other experienced by the U.S. economy in the last 100 years,” St. Louis Fed economist Miguel Faria-e-Castro wrote in a research paper posted last week.
March 30, 2020
Eurogroup chief warns of euro breakup amid EU feuding
Eurogroup president Mario Centeno warned the euro single currency could break apart if feuding governments don’t bury the hatchet and agree on a rescue plan to help Italy and Spain. The carefully worded warning came as the 19 members of the single currency still cannot agree on a rescue plan to reverse the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the European economy. In a letter sent Monday to European finance ministers and seen by AFP, Centeno said national budgets in Europe faced a “colossal shock” commensurate with the coronavirus outbreak itself. “Inevitably, we will all come out of the crisis with much larger debt levels,” added Centeno, who is also Portuguese finance minister. “But this effect and its lasting consequences should not become a source of fragmentation,” he said. Following an ill-tempered EU leaders summit Thursday, the ministers were tasked by the 27 EU heads of state and government to find a response to the crisis.
March 31, 2020
French Central Bank Puts Out Call for Digital Currency Experiments
France’s central bank wants to experiment with integrating digital currencies.On March 27, the Banque de France published a request for proposals for central bank digital currency “experiment” applications. These projects will help France’s central bank understand the risks and mechanisms of CBDCs and also contribute to the eurozone’s digital cash conversation. The call brings France to the front of that debate. It’s the highest-profile eurozone member to launch a CBDC experiment to date (Sweden, whose Riksbank is also toying with digitizing currency, uses the krona). The Banque de France has advocated for experimental and advanced fintech projects for at least four years, sometimes hinting, through job postings and speeches that it was also eyeing development of a CBDC.
March 30, 2020
Hungary government gets sweeping powers
The Hungarian Parliament has voted by 137 to 53 to accept the government’s request for the power to rule by decree during the coronavirus emergency. The law contains no time limit. Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised to use the extraordinary powers he has been granted “proportionately and rationally”. The leader of the opposition Jobbik party, Peter Jakab, said that the law placed the whole of Hungarian democracy in quarantine. Monday’s vote was controversial – more than 100,000 people had signed a petition against the move. But Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative Fidesz party has a strong majority. The special powers have no time limit and critics say independent journalists could face jail.
March 30, 2020
When will coronavirus Covid-19 trigger the World Bank’s pandemic bond?
The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) today launched specialized bonds aimed at providing financial support to the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a facility created by the World Bank to channel surge funding to developing countries facing the risk of a pandemic. This marks the first time that World Bank bonds are being used to finance efforts against infectious diseases, and the first time that pandemic risk in low-income countries is being transferred to the financial markets. The PEF will provide more than $500 million to cover developing countries against the risk of pandemic outbreaks over the next five years, through a combination of bonds and derivatives priced today, a cash window, and future commitments from donor countries for additional coverage.
March, 2020
NYC mayor to synagogues: Close for coronavirus or be shut down permanently
Pastor of Tampa church that held two large Sunday services arrested, jailed
Christians Arrested for Praying Outside NC Abortion Clinic Deemed ‘Essential.’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the Jewish community that synagogues that continue to defy coronavirus regulations and hold services will be permanently shut down. While the majority of synagogues have closed in accordance with city orders aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus by limiting social gathering, others have stayed open. “We’ve had extraordinary, across the board rabbinical support from all the different elements of the Jewish community and the same is true of other faiths as well,” de Blasio said in his Friday news briefing, according to The Jewish Press. Some synagogues, however, are still holding minyanim, gatherings of 10 worshipers or more, to hold prayer services. “A small number of religious communities, specific churches and specific synagogues, are unfortunately not paying attention to this guidance even though it’s so widespread,” de Blasio said. “I want to say to all those who are preparing for the potential of religious services this weekend: If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church, and attempt to hold services after having been told so often not to, our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services,” he warned, however admitting that he does not “say this with joy.”
March 31, 2020
“And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.” (Luke 21:11) “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places “(Matthew 24:7) “So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death (Thanatos in Greek meaning the death of the body whether natural or violent), and by the beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:8)
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Pentagon Orders Essential Staff To Deep Underground Mountain Bunker As Pandemic Prep Escalates
Pentagon Confirms Over 1,000 COVID-19 Cases Among Military, Orders Bases To Stop Public Reporting
IRS orders office evacuation, affecting most agency employees
The United States Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for donated anti-malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate as doctors say the drugs are showing positive results for coronavirus patients. The FDA issued the authorization to allow doctors to distribute and prescribe the anti-malaria drugs to hospitalized teen and adult patients who have coronavirus, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a press release. Doctors may distribute and prescribe the drugs “as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.” The emergency authorization was issued to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which is working with the National Institute of Health to plan clinical trials of the drugs.
March 30, 2020
84-year-old couple after two weeks in hospital cured of COVD-19
Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’
An 84-year-old couple who picked up COVID-19 while vacationing in Europe have been released from Rambam Hospital in Haifa after a complete recovery. Aharon and Simcha Graziani, when asked how they managed to navigate being in one room together for two weeks, replied: “After sixty-two years of marriage it was easy.”
March 31, 2020
Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus
March 9, 2020- Dead dolphins found on a beach in Namibia. Link
March 9, 2020 – Hundreds of water birds found dead on Waikawa and Kuku beaches in New Zealand. Link
March 10, 2020- Dead bats found, causing panic in Kozhikode, India. Link
March 11, 2020- Thousands of dead fish wash up in a marina in Windsor, Canada. Link
March 16, 2020- Thousands of quail dead due to avian flu in Philippines. Link
March 16, 2020- Massive die off of fish washes up in Algeciras, Spain. Link
March 21, 2020- Dead turtles found washed up on beaches in Alvarado and Boca del Rio, Mexico. Link
March 22, 2020- Thousands of dead fish wash up on a beach in Bireuen, Indonesia. Link
March 23, 2020- Dozens of dead birds found on road in Trois Mares, Reunion. Link
March 23, 2020- Thousands of pigs killed due to swine fever in Western Poland. Link
March 24, 2020- Thousands of dead fish found washed up on a beach in Pariaman, Indonesia. Link
March 27, 2020- Swarms of bats drop dead from sky in Israel. Link
Homes Damaged as Tornadoes Strike Mississippi, Alabama
Large tornado rips through Jonesboro, causing extensive damage, Arkansas
Severe weather moved across the Deep South Tuesday and spawned at least three tornadoes that damaged buildings and knocked down trees and power lines. The mayor of Eufaula, Alabama, told WSFA-TV that about a dozen homes were damaged when a tornado hit around noon CDT. There was one report of a minor injury. Video footage showed the tornado moving through and some of the homes that it hit.Another tornado that earlier moved through Lucedale, Mississippi, about 60 miles southeast of Hattiesburg, destroyed at least one home, WKRG-TV reported. There were also reports of downed trees. High winds caused power outages in Georgia, where at least 56,000 were without power at the peak. About 33,000 remained without power as of 2:15 p.m. EST. An official in Henry County reported that roofs were blown off several hangars at the county’s airport, which is across from Atlanta Motor Speedway.
March 31, 2020
Activity at Stromboli volcano increased from medium to high levels on March 28 into 29, 2020, followed by lava overflow first observed around 23:40 UTC on March 30, 2020. Lava reached the coastline at around 01:40 UTC on March 31, INGV Osservatorio Etneo reported today, adding that this phenomenology is accompanied by seismic signals that can be associated with landsliding and rolling of incandescent rocks along the Sciara del Fuoco. The activity increased from medium to high levels on March 28 into 29, one day after the volcano produced a large, almost-perfect smoke ring. “The volcanic activity was characterized by scoria-rich explosions mainly located at NE crater, reaching very high infrasonic pressure (3.6 bar) and accompanied by overflows from the NE crater rim during the last night (between 17:00 and 23:00 UTC),” Labaratorio Geofisica Sperimentale (LGS) reported on March 29, referring to activity at the volcano in 24-hours to 08:34 UTC on March 29.
March 31, 2020
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