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Flu vaccine deaths: South Korea scrambles to control panic, says any link is 'coincidental'

Park Chan-kyong
South China Morning Post
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 02:31 UTC
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Flu shot administered in a hospital in Seoul.
Numbers plummet with public concern following a number of deaths.
South Korean officials are scrambling to contain widespread public panic sparked by news reports of deaths thought to be linked to influenza vaccines, with President Moon Jae-in urging calm and saying any link was merely coincidental.

Over the past two weeks, 59 post-vaccination deaths have been reported, mostly involving those in their 60s or older with pre-existing health conditions.

Alarmist news headlines since the first death was reported on October 16 have deterred many people from getting vaccinated, and the Korea Medical Association recommended a temporary suspension of the flu shots.


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Smoking

Wales bans smoking in playgrounds, school grounds and hospitals


BBC
Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:10 UTC
Smoking ban in Wales
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A ban on smoking in playgrounds, school grounds and hospital sites in Wales will begin next March.

Councils will have powers to issue fixed-penalty notices for breaches of the law, the Welsh Government said.

It means smokers at hospital will need to leave the grounds to have a cigarette. Smoking rooms in hotels will also be banned in 2022.

Senedd members backed the measure in a vote on Tuesday night, with 45 politicians voting for the regulations.

The law makes Wales the first country in the UK to ban smoking in playgrounds and school grounds.
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Fire

Anti-cop protesters leave trail of destruction in Downtown Brooklyn

Larry Celona, Joe Marino and Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:11 UTC
vandalized Bank of America Brooklyn anti-cop protest
© Kenneth Bachor/NY Post
A vandalized Bank of America at Court Street and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
Dozens of marching protesters were arrested in Brooklyn on Tuesday night after clashing with NYPD cops and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake in response to the Philadelphia police shooting death of an armed black man.

About 200 protesters met in Fort Greene Park before snaking their way through the streets, vandalizing police vehicles, torching an American flag and igniting at least one rubbish fire during their travels, according to footage posted to social media by video journalist Issa Khari.

"Burn the precinct to the ground, every city, every town!" the group, mainly clad in black, chanted as they marched near Boerum Place and Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn.

Near Willoughby and Jay streets, several protesters chucked rocks and bottles at police officers, sources said. Others in the group wielded pieces of wood.

Nearby, a man in the crowd stole a pumpkin off the steps of a brownstone and hurled it at a car windshield.
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Briefcase

Female prisoner suing UK govt after claiming sexual assault by transgender inmate


RT
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:05 UTC
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A female prisoner is suing the UK government in an effort to ban some trans women from all-female prisons, after claiming she was sexually assaulted by a biologically male inmate who had not undergone gender reassignment surgery.

A judicial review of the lawsuit, launched on Wednesday, will last about two days, and could overturn the government policy allowing biological men to be housed in women's prisons if they have procured a gender recognition certificate.

Before being placed in the Downview women's prison in Surrey, the alleged attacker was previously convicted of rape as a man, according to Keep Prisons Single Sex, a campaigning group supporting the claimant. Despite the past conviction, the trans woman was still placed in an all-female environment.

The legal action will specifically challenge the lawfulness of placing transgender women who have been convicted of sexual and violent offences in women's prisons.
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Eye 2

US sex cult leader Keith Raniere receives 120-year sentence


The Straits Times
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:30 UTC
Keith Raniere court room sketch
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A courtroom sketch shows Nxivm cult leader Keith Raniere during his sentencing hearing at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York, on Oct 27, 2020
A "self-help" guru convicted of running a cult-like organisation of sex slaves who were branded with his initials was sentenced to 120 years in prison by a New York judge Tuesday (Oct 27).

The effective life sentence for Keith Raniere, 60, comes after he was found guilty of coercing women into having sex with him as the charismatic leader of Nxivm, a life-coaching group that attracted a coterie of rich and famous devotees.

Followers signed up for US$5,000, five-day self-help courses, but some were then financially and sexually exploited and forced to follow a restrictive diet, as Raniere - known as "Vanguard" - exerted control, his six-week trial heard.

He established a faction within the group called DOS, a pyramid structure in which the women were "slaves" and "Grand Master" Raniere sat at the top.

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Chart Pie

UK: Nine in ten police forces haven't fined anyone for breaking Covid face mask laws

Patrick Gysin
The Sun, UK
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:13 UTC
UK police face masks
© European Press Agency
Police forces are failing to hand out penalties for not wearing face coverings with 90 per cent not issuing a single one since masks were made compulsory in shops and indoor locations, it has been revealed.

Health secretary Matt Hancock announced plans three months ago to make face coverings mandatory in shops and supermarkets from July 24.

It became mandatory to wear face coverings on public transport from June 15 and he also announced masks would have to be worn at various indoor settings.

The police and Transport for London officers were told they have the powers to enforce fines of £200, which would be reduced if paid within 14 days, for the first offence, with repeat offenders seeing their fine doubled at each offence.
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Syringe

Indian pharmaceutical company set to test Russian Covid-19 vaccine reports cyberattack


Sputnik
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:46 UTC
Covid 19 vaccine
© Sputnik/Vladimir Pesnya
The Dr Reddy's Laboratories pharmaceutical company, which was just given a green light to begin trials of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 in India, said on Wednesday that its IT systems had been attacked by hackers earlier in the month, possibly resulting in a breach of personal data.

"On 22nd October 2020, we experienced an information security incident and consequently isolated the impacted IT services. This incident involved a ransomware attack. We promptly engaged leading outside cybersecurity experts, launched a comprehensive containment and remediation effort and investigation to address the incident," the company said in a report on its latest consolidated financial results.

The company's internal investigation has not yet established if the breach of data due to the cyberattack included any personally identifiable information, according to the report.
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TV

Ingraham: Americans will be 'stripped of any freedom' under Biden presidency, coronavirus lockdowns

Angelica Stabile
Fox News
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:31 UTC
Joe biden mask
© Angela Weiss/AFP
Joe Biden's approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic and the promise of more lockdowns will be detrimental to American free will, "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham argued Tuesday night.

"The looming Biden lockdowns," she began. "He's going to use euphemistic language, a lot of talk about social distancing and so forth, to describe these draconian restrictions. But it's all meant to lull you into complacency and compliance."

Ingraham said under Biden, the U.S. will mimic the "nightmarish" conditions in Europe, where lockdowns are severe and coronavirus cases are exploding. In Italy, she noted, anti-lockdown protesters are being tear-gassed by police.

"So if you have out-of-town relatives or friends who live across the country, and you think Biden's going to win, well, you better see them soon," she said. "Because if Biden's experts are in charge, your traveling days are over."

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Sheriff

US Marshals recover 45 missing children during human trafficking sting

Jack Phillips
The Epoch Times
Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:01 UTC
US Marshals
© Elliott Cowand Jr/Shutterstock
Two U.S. Marshals stand on a building as they look out toward the city in a file photo.
The U.S. Marshals Service said it has recovered 45 more children in an anti-human-trafficking operation in southern West Virginia and southern Ohio during the month of October.

"Operation Autumn Hope" was described as a multi-agency law enforcement operation focused on human trafficking as well as finding missing or endangered children. In all, 45 missing children were rescued, and 169 arrests were made, according to the U.S. Marshals, as reported by WCMH.

In one of the missing child recoveries, a loaded gun was recovered, officials said. A 15-year-old male juvenile who was found had two warrants for his arrest, suspected in homicide and several shootings, officials said.

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Dollars

Bellingcat DID take UK Foreign Office money, open logs show, directly contradicting Eliot Higgins' claims

Kit Klarenberg,
RT
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:35 UTC
Bellingcat Eliot Higgins
© REUTERS/Simon Dawson
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins poses for a portrait after giving a press conference opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, October 9, 2018
Controversial 'open source investigations' website Bellingcat was paid directly by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) at least once, official data shows, debunking its founder and chief's claims to the contrary.

Suggestions that Bellingcat is a tool of Western governments, and funded by them directly, have long-abounded - and consistently been denied by founder and chief Eliot Higgins.

Such allegations reached fever pitch in late 2018, when files related to the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) military intelligence operation Integrity Initiative were leaked by hacktivist collective Anonymous. The papers revealed the secret endeavour, among other things, worked to discredit left-leaning, anti-war figures at home and abroad, and maintained clandestine global networks of journalists, academics, and military and intelligence operatives to spread pro-Western propaganda and encourage more aggressive policies toward Moscow.

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