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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderma. 6 jul. ’20
‘Black power, Black love’: Video shows heavily armed Black protesters marching through Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park demanding a huge Confederate carving be removed
Dozens of protesters were recorded on video marching on Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, demanding that a giant rock relief depicting Confederate leaders be taken down. Park authorities estimated there were about 100 to 200 protesters. Many…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderzo. 5 jul. ’20
The WHO changed its coronavirus timeline to say it got its first report about the virus on the internet, not from Chinese authorities
The World Health Organization changed its coronavirus timeline to say that its China office first found out about the novel coronavirus from local reports on the “viral pneumonia,” rather than from Chinese officials. The revision, published June 29, …
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- zo. 5 jul. ’20
A vehicle drove through a crowd of protesters on a closed Seattle freeway, leaving one woman dead and another in critical condition
A man drove through a crowd of protesters demonstrating on a closed section of a Seattle, Washington, freeway early Saturday morning. Two women – 24-year-old Summer Taylor and 32-year-old Diaz Love – were hit and rushed to the hospital. Taylor died o…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderzo. 5 jul. ’20
A Kansas newspaper published a cartoon likening the state governor’s compulsory face-mask order to the Holocaust
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly introduced an executive order on Friday, mandating most people in the state to wear face masks to protect against the coronavirus. That same day, local newspaper The Anderson County Review published a cartoon depicting Kelly i…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderza. 27 jun. ’20
China’s new, hardline ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy is supposed to cement its dominance — but it’s also uniting its rivals abroad and dividing people at home
A faction of Chinese diplomats have been stepping up their attacks on China’s critics by issuing hawkish, offensive statements. It’s called “wolf warrior” diplomacy, named after a movie franchise about a Chinese soldier who fights and defeats foreign…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderma. 15 jun. ’20
Russia sentences Paul Whelan, US Marine veteran accused of espionage, to 16 years in prison
Russia sentenced Paul Whelan, a former US Marine, to 16 years in a high-security prison on Monday. Whelan was arrested in Moscow in late December 2018 and accused of being on a “spy mission.” He had been in town to attend a wedding. Moscow said Whela…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insidervr. 12 jun. ’20
Zoom’s crackdown on Chinese dissidents shows the price tech companies pay to operate in authoritarian countries
Zoom on Thursday admitted that it closed user accounts and meetings meant to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre, after being asked by the Chinese government. It announced a new policy, to continue to enforce bans requested by China, but only f…
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- Sarah Al-Arshani, Ashley Collman, Kelly McLaughlin, Brianna Moné, Alexandra Ma, Ellen Cranley, Michelle Mark, Sophia Ankel, Rosie Perper, Sinéad Baker voor Business Insiderdi. 2 jun. ’20
How 7 days of US protests over the death of George Floyd spiraled into chaos and deadly violence
Protests began after George Floyd, a black man, died after Minneapolis police officer Daniel Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes while taking him into custody. Chauvin was fired and later charged with third-degree murder and second-de…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderdi. 19 mei ’20
China outplayed the world on the day it was meant to face a reckoning over its coronavirus response
The World Health Assembly began on Monday, with dozens of countries looking to hold China accountable over the coronavirus outbreak. It would likely have embarrassed China on the world stage, casting its response in an unflattering light. But China e…
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- Alexandra Ma voor Business Insiderza. 9 mei ’20
Trump’s incompetent response to the US coronavirus outbreak is helping China look good
President Donald Trump has overseen a chaotic response to the US coronavirus outbreak, downplaying its severity and repeatedly changing his stance on China. This is undermining US authority to criticize how China handled the initial outbreak, which b…
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