AFP, Pyongyang
North Korea has postponed the new school term to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, reports said Thursday, the latest measure as the ill-equipped country ramps up efforts to prevent a devastating outbreak. Pyongyang has not reported a single case of the virus now known as COVID-19, which originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has since spread around the world including South Korea.
6, including gunman dead, after mass shooting at Brewing facility in US
AFP, Washington
A sacked employee opened fire at the Milwaukee campus of a big brewing company Wednesday and President Donald Trump said five people were killed.Trump’s comments, at a press conference on the new coronavirus, were the first official word on the toll in the latest spasm of America’s gun violence epidemic. “A wicked murderer opened fire at a Molson Coors brewing company plant, taking the lives of five people, a number of people wounded, some badly wounded,” Trump said.
Four leaks found in Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant
AFP,
After surviving a massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in 2011, Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is now dealing with four different leaks in its walls.
“Our final analysis is not completed but I can tell you already that we find the (panel) report based on a sound methodology and a systematic approach,” he added, describing the two options proposed as “in line with well-established practices all around the world.”
Mexico President ties shootout dead to drug consumption
AP, Mexico City
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Wednesday without offering evidence that most of those who die in Mexico’s cartel- and gang-fueled firefights are high on drugs or intoxicated, prompting criticism and questions about whether the claim was accurate. Speaking to journalists in his morning news conference, López Obrador said rising drug consumption rates must be reversed if the country is to guarantee peace and security after years of rising, record-setting homicide statistics.
