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• Venezuela oil minister El Aissami tests positive for COVID-19
• "It's going to happen again," says former New Zealand PM Clark tasked with WHO COVID-19 review
• Coronavirus updates: Nevada to close some bars again; Big Ten schools to play conference-only games; CDC won't rewrite school rules
• In first, US punishes senior Chinese officials over Uighur rights

Venezuela oil minister El Aissami tests positive for COVID-19 Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:13 PM PDT Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami has tested positive for COVID-19, he said on Twitter on Friday, a day after the leader of the socialist party, Diosdado Cabello, tested positive for the virus as well. Omar Prieto, governor of western Zulia state, has also tested positive for the virus. Venezuela has reported 8,010 cases of the novel coronavirus so far, far fewer than other Latin American neighbors like Brazil, but its cases have risen at a brisker pace in recent weeks. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

"It's going to happen again," says former New Zealand PM Clark tasked with WHO COVID-19 review Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:03 AM PDT New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained "flat-footed" in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response. The COVID-19 outbreak originated in China in late 2019 and has infected a reported 12.16 million people globally and 550,242​ have died, according to a Reuters tally. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Coronavirus updates: Nevada to close some bars again; Big Ten schools to play conference-only games; CDC won't rewrite school rules Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:05 PM PDT The Big Ten will limit its fall schedule to only conference games. the CDC pushed back on changes to its school guidelines. Latest COVID-19 news. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

In first, US punishes senior Chinese officials over Uighur rights Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:07 PM PDT The United States on Thursday took its first major action to stop "horrific" abuses against China's Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims, slapping sanctions on several senior officials. Three officials will be refused US visas and see any US-based assets frozen including Chen Quanguo, the Chinese Communist Party chief for the Xinjiang region and architect of Beijing's hardline policies against restive minorities. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States was acting against "horrific and systematic abuses" in the western region including forced labor, mass detention and involuntary population control. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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