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By Isabella Kwai
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We see a respected Bollywood actor who tested positive for coronavirus, a Polish election too close to the call and demonstrations in the Russian Far East.
On a day when India reported more than 28,000 new coronavirus infections, the case of a specific man caught the country’s attention: Amitabh Bachchan, a Bollywood star and one of India’s most respected personalities.
Bachchan told his 43 million Twitter fans Saturday that he had tested the virus and suggested to his recent contacts that they get tested. His son, Abhishek, and daughter-in-law, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, both actors, and daughter were also evaluated.
India, which closed early and reopened to save its weak economy, now accumulates around 30,000 new infections reported every day, more than any other country, the United States and Brazil. And with 850,000 instances across the country, it’s temporarily reaching Brazil.
Elsewhere: Under Scotland’s measured leader Nicola Sturgeon, the country is emerging from a blockade more cautiously than neighbouring England, and it turns out it’s working. Scotland may eliminate coronavirus until autumn, according to public fitness experts, but the pandemic has revived old grievances opposing Britain.
In news:
A day after President Trump gave the impression that he was publicly dressed in a mask for the first time, officials suggested to the public that he should too. And Florida has announced more than 15,000 new cases, a general one-day record for a U.S. state.
Saudi Arabia and other primary oil-producing countries are expected to increase production in August as locks decline and require resumption. But the spread of the virus can prevent those plans.
Thousands of others piled up in Tel Aviv about the government’s reaction to coronavirus, it’s not easy for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to provide financial assistance.
Here are the updates and maps of where the virus has spread.
Poland’s presidential election did not produce a transparent winner on Sunday, recent polls showed that President Andrzej Duda led the challenger, Rafal Trzaskowski, narrowly.
The election, which pits Duda, a conservative nationalist, opposed to Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal mayor, is widely regarded as the maxim since the end of communist rule in 1989. Participation appears to have been the highest since the first. in Poland, with partially free elections held that year.
What this means: Duda’s re-election would mean that the ruling law and justice party could continue to reshape Poland, where critics say the rule of law is eroding. The government has assembled independent courts and Duda has stoked fears about homosexuals and a relaxed press.
What happens next: Duda leads 51% against Trzaskowski’s 49%, polls are not official effects and the government has until Tuesday night to claim a winner. None of the candidates relented, paving the way for a prolonged fight for the first presidential election since the coronavirus swept Europe.
Tens of thousands more demonstrated in Russia’s Far East on Saturday, calling for the release of a popular regional governor who was arrested last week on suspicion of several murders.
Protesters in Khabarovsk, a border town with China, and several other cities chanted “Putin resigns,” a rare opposition demonstration that opposes President Vladimir Putin in the vast interior of the country. The protests rivaled last summer’s protests in Moscow, the Kremlin’s main opposition hub.
Details: Sergei Furgal, one of the few Russian provincial leaders affiliated with Kremlin-controlled political forces, had long been accused of criminality. But critics said his alleged crimes, once ignored, are now used to charge an elected governor.
What this means: Unlike street protests in Moscow, which the government can easily discredit like the paintings of a privileged metropolitan elite lost in the West, this explosion, in a region 4000 kilometers east of the capital, presents a potentially more problematic challenge. This suggests, along with other growls about the economic difficulties that are unfolding, that Putin has lost his invincible leader.
Often hailed as heroes, fitness personnel around the world face increasing pressure from the pandemic. Dr. Lorna Breen, above, was known to be an unwavering presence in her emergency room in Manhattan, up to the coronavirus. He collapsed because his hospital was hit during the crisis and killed in April.
Dozens of people who enjoyed Dr. Breen shared memories of her with our reporters and said she was devastated that she could not help many of her patients. His circle of relatives said his death revealed a stigma of intellectual fitness that persists in the medical community.
“I had something a little different,” recalls her colleague, Dr. Barbara Lock, “and that optimism that her persistent efforts would save lives.”
MH17: The Dutch government is suing Russia at the European Court of Human Rights following the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on eastern Ukraine in 2014. The Netherlands is taking action for individual cases brought through relatives of victims.
France: Mohamed Amghar, a retired software sales manager in France, filed a discrimination complaint against his former employer, claiming that the company had made him use the more classic French call Antoine.
China: Xu Zhangrun, a Beijing law professor known for criticizing the Communist Party, was allowed to return home after being arrested a week ago, others close to him said.
Snapshot: Upstairs, Hagia Sophia on Friday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree on Friday ordering the opening of the UNESCO World Heritage site, loved by Christians and Muslims, to Muslim prayers.
In memoriam: Jack Charlton, a star who helped England win the World Cup in 1966 and led the Irish national team, died Friday at the age of 85.
What we read: This Article from the South China Morning Post about academics who have been derailed through U.S. visa restrictions. “Tensions between the United States and China are manifested not only on the world stage, but also in schools such as the University of Rochester, where 19% of academics are Chinese,” writes Jennifer Jett, Hong Kong’s editor-in-chief. “But it’s not as undeniable as one opposite aspect of the other.”
Cooking: David Tanis’ vegetarian burger doesn’t mimic the texture or appearance of floor meat, but it doesn’t. Looks like more fancy fried beans, with an egg on it.
What to do: You can turn your copy of the Times (or any other newspaper) into decorative beads, with a little glue and our patterns.
Reopenings and reactivations seem to be everywhere. For those who minimize their exposure, At Home has our entire collection of concepts on what to read, cook, watch and do.
Paul B. Brown, a freelance writer, entered the pandemic believing he had good monetary health, but lost the maximum of his source of income overnight. Now, he says, he’s got a lot more to do. He shared some of the classes he learned.
Keep even more in your hand.
The popular recommendation in non-public finances is to have at least 3 months of life expenses hidden in anything liquid and ultra-safe. I’ll check to bring that number to a year’s supply. The purpose is more to create peace in the brain than to increase my net worth. I’ll never have to worry about expenses again.
Handle your most aggressively.
I paid the full balance of my credit card in a month and both, so I have never had a credit card debt. But I have three mortgages. I paid more than I had in a month on both mortgages, because I thought of early payment as a kind of forced savings. Mortgages have other interest rates. From now on, I will place all the additional tickets on which I have the highest interest rate.
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He never buys insurance because he hopes to file a claim someday. You do it to protect yourself from a time when something terrible can happen. I have the idea of saving cash in the same way.
But the pandemic made me realize that I’m not sure what I’m going to want to skip to protect my circle of relatives and keep our popular middle class intact to live, now and in the future.
That’s all about this report. Good start to the week.
– Isabelle
Thanks to Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for the news. You can enroll in the team in [email protected].
PS – We pay attention to “The Daily”. Our most recent episode is true to the new news animated through the moment – and “El Decameron” through Giovanni Boccaccio. Here’s today’s mini-crossword puzzle and a track: Spanish appetizers (five letters). You can locate all of our riddles here: “The Prince of the Jungle of Delhi,” a Times investigation and a podcast about the mysterious royal circle of oudh relatives written through Ellen Barry, is adapting for an Amazon series through director Mira Nair.
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