A man paints a mural by U. S. President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump after being positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) on a street in Mumbai, India, on October 2, 2020.
Francis Mascarenhas / Reuters
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While U. S. President Donald Trump and first girl Melania Trump announced Friday morning that they had tested positive for coronavirus, after minimizing the pandemic for months, reactions from world leaders ranged from “you said so” to “healing soon. “Uncommon, many of Trump’s critics have criticized America’s commander-in-chief for his lack of leadership in COVID-19.
Polls-based Trump faces an increasingly complicated war to win the November 3 election, rejects accusations that his mistakes at the helm have contributed to 20% of U. S. deaths worldwide. , faces a non-public medical crisis with a disease that affects the elderly, obese and very strong males.
“This shows that the virus forgives no one, coupled with those who have shown skepticism,” said Gabriel Attal, a spokesman for the French government. “I wish you a prompt recovery. ” European Council President Charles Michel added: “COVID-19 is a war we all continue to wage. Every day. It doesn’t matter where we live.
Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times newspaper, tweeted: “President Trump and the First Lady have paid the value of their bet to downplay COVID-19. “Taiwan’s comments were kinder. ” Taiwan’s government and others are supporting the United States in this trial period,” Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Quick recovery. “
Trump has joined other presidents and prime ministers in the small organization of world leaders who have become inflamed with the coronavirus. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a complicated war with the disease, ending up in the intensive care unit, and Prince Charles tested positive but showed only mild symptoms. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hit the virus in July; Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Prince Albert II of Monaco COVID-19, in addition to the leaders of Guatemala, Bolivia and the Dominican Republic. In India, Iran, Israel, South Sudan, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau were also ignite.
Also on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a new law opposing devout “separatism” with the aim of freeing Islam in France from “radical” foreign influences. Local officials will have more legal powers to combat extremism, as well as new investments in education aimed at Islamic and social culture for the poor. “Our challenge is to fight those who derail in the call of religion,” Macron said.
People participate in a demonstration through the Armenian Youth Federation that opposes what they call Azerbaijan’s aggression against Armenia and the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, outdoors at the Azerbaijani Consulate General in Los Angeles, California, on September 30, 2020.
Mike Blake / Reuters
With Turkey’s backing to Azerbaijan and Armenians calling on Iran and Russia, the gunpowder barrel of the south caucasus could ignite in a larger conflagration. Simon Saradzhyan, director of the Russia Importa Project at Harvard Kennedy School, explains why the two sides are arguing.
“They are fighting for what is the most valuable thing in the world: the earth,” Saradzhyan said. “I would say that this is the worst fight since the ceasefire, and that it has the greatest chance of becoming a regional war. “because of Turkey’s involvement. (. . . ) influence, interfere and convince both sides that it is time to lay down arms and negotiate. “
Three Deepwater Wind wind turbines are being retained on Block Island, Rhode Island, on August 15, 2016. A U. S. developer department has not been able to do so. But it’s not the first time Denmark-based Offshore Wind opened a center on March 2 in Providence, Rhode Island, which its executives hope to boost industry takeoff in the United States.
Michael Dwyer / AP
For more than 10 years, one of Denmark’s largest power companies, Ersted, has changed its business style from a concentration of fossil fuels to renewable energy. Their good luck is partly due to the country’s progressive policies that have paved the way for a boom. in wind innovation.
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President Donald Trump raises his thumb as he heads to Marine One from the White House in Washington on Thursday, October 1, 2020.
Carolyn Kaster / AP
Pandemic lies are bouncing around the world at an alarming rate. A new study from Cornell University shows that President Donald Trump is the largest of the dissemination of misinformation. what few other power companies in the world have been able to do: they have gone from relying almost entirely on oil, fuel and coal to being the largest manufacturer of offshore wind power in the world. In addition, the Irish Supreme Court has ruled that bread used through the Subway fast food chain contains too much sugar to be legally labelled bread.
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