April 14, 2020

How to End Virus Lockdowns? Technology, Tests, Coordination

BERLIN – Governments battling a virus that has crossed borders with breathtaking swiftness pinned their hopes Tuesday on tests, technology and a coordinated approach to ease the tight social-distancing restrictions that have slowed the pandemic but strangled the global economy.   While the European Union looked into creating a COVID-19

Coronavirus the New Scapegoat for Media Censorship, Rights Groups Say

Governments worldwide are using the COVID-19 pandemic to tighten media regulations and silence independent news media, human rights groups and media watchdogs say.  Examples abound, from China’s arrest of doctor-turned-whistleblower Li Wenliang, to the arrest of reporters and social media users in Iran, Turkey, and Thailand, to the prospect of

Five men arrested for theft of bank cards at ATM

NORTHERN CAPE – Five men aged between 35 and 45 suspected to be stealing bank cards by manner of swapping them at ATM, from unsuspecting bank card holders have been locked behind bars. It is alleged that a man in his early 30’s was busy withdrawing money at the ATM

Police bust two drug peddlers in Kimberley suburbs

NORTHERN CAPE – The Northern Cape Provincial Organised Crime Detectives brought two drug peddlers to a halt when stopped and searched in Kirstenhof Suburb, Kimberley. Yesterday, 13 April 2020 at approximately 11:00, the suspects were spotted driving around in a silver grey Polo with two occupants aged 36 and 39.

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