Atlanta United star forward Josef Martinez has a torn ACL in his right knee and will have surgery, the team announced Sunday evening. Read More
via Atlanta United star Martinez has torn ACL — National Post
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The Kremlin’s walls
Russia
There, but only once
Enthralled, but not deeply enough
Captivated, but incompletely
Awed, but insufficiently
To you, Russia, I someday must return
For now, memories sustain me
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MOSCOW — Turkish police on Sunday detained the editor-in-chief of Russia’s Sputnik Turkiye news agency in Istanbul, the global head of the state-run agency said, but he was released after a phone call between the foreign ministers of the two countries. Read More
via Turkish police briefly detain Russia’s Sputnik Turkiye editor-in-chief — National Post
(Thankfully, the editor was not treated like Anna Politkovskaya was, when those “thugs” attacked a few hours earlier)
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Flag of India, Wikipedia
The Guardian report is not an easy read.
The violence raged across the north-east of India’s capital for four days as mosques were set alight, Muslims were burned alive in their homes or dragged out into the streets and lynched. Muslim businesses and property were also set alight. In streets where Hindus and Muslims had lived peacefully side by side, bodies lay bloodied alongside discarded and burned-out cars, bikes, shattered glass and smouldering shopfronts. The police have been accused of enabling, encouraging or even joining in with Hindu mobs.
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According to the Guardian, epidemiologist Jonathan Quick says,
The worst-case scenario is looking increasingly likely. We’ve now seen cases on six continents, apparently “silent” – that is, at least partly asymptomatic – chains of human-to-human transmission both inside and outside China, with additional countries reporting cases within the last week – bringing the total to 47 – and new, accelerating outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea. If it becomes a pandemic, the questions are, how bad will it get and how long will it last? The case fatality rate – the proportion of cases that are fatal – has been just over 2%, much less than it was for Sars, but 20 times that of seasonal flu.
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