World News Briefs For Monday, 3 February 2020
Hello Australia!! - Cops in South London kill a man wearing a fake bomb device - Australians are finally leaving China as the Wuhan virus death toll grows - Bridget McKenzie is out - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
More than a hundred Australians are leaving Wuhan, China, epicenter of the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 300 people and infected around 14,000 people around the world. The Qantas 747 with its all-volunteer crew is the first of two flights to ferry Aussies from China to two weeks of quarantine on Christmas Island where a medical assistance team with a mobile hospital is already in place to receive them. A second flight is expected to evacuate more Australians from China in the coming days.
China has completed the first hospital constructed in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, taking just ten days to finish the 1,000 bed facility. Another 1,600 bed hospital will follow it in a few days.
The first coronavirus fatality outside China has occurred in the Philippines. The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says the 44-year old man from Wuhan City had apparently been infected before he left to visit the Philippines. The man is thought to have had other pre-existing health conditions. A 38-year old woman travelling with him also was infected.
UK Police shot and killed a man after he attacked people with a knife or machete on the high road in Streatham, South London. Authorities say that 20-year old Sudesh Amman had just been released from prison a week ago after serving half of a three-year sentence for terrorism-related offenses. Reports say that Amman and entered a store and began stabbing people, and that armed plainclothes and uniformed police were there within minutes to confront him. After shooting Amman, police said they found a hoax device meant to resemble a suicide vest strapped to his chest.
Thousands of Israelis protested against the Trump Administration's Middle East Peace Plan, which critics say gives Israel's right-wing government all of its wishes and has little to nothing for Palestinians. "Annexation is a disaster, no peace, no security," protesters chanted, while holding both Israeli and Palesstinian flags as well as signs decrying Israel's 52-year occupation of the West Bank. The plan - which Trump calls the "Deal of the Century", and already thoroughly rejected by the Palestinian Authority and the Arab League - grants Israel control over Jerusalem as its "undivided" capital, puts West Bank settlements coming under full Israeli sovereignty, and delays an independent Palestinian state for four years - and only if certain conditions are met.
And, another protest against the Trump-Netanyahu plan took place in Beirut, Lebanon.
Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie of the Nationals resigned from federal cabinet over the weekend because of her role in the "sports rorts" saga which has engulfed the Morrison government. Former Nats leader Barnaby Joyce says that if there is a spill, he'll be in the running to replace her.