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The Netherlands was hit by a second wave of riots on Monday evening, as protesters again went on the rampage in several cities following the introduction of a coronavirus curfew over the weekend.
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Concern is growing about the potential long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on prisoners in England and Wales, even though jails have avoided the worst predictions about infections.

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Video footage of an adorable baby giant panda clin

Video footage of an adorable baby giant panda clinging desperately to her zookeeper's leg in South Korea has garnered more than four million hits on YouTube.

In the viral clip the zookeeper weighs little Fu Bao on a scale and then places the baby panda on the floor in an enclosure at the Everland Zoo near Seoul.

But it seems the six-month-old cub whose name means "a treasure that gives happiness" does not want to be separated from her keeper.

Fu Bao wraps her front paws around his leg, clinging on even as he tries to walk away.

She is carried across the room until the zookeeper bends down to untangle his leg from Fu Bao's grip.

The persistent cub tries to grab him once again before she gives up and rolls over in retreat.

The near two-minute long video shows the zookeeper placing the baby panda next to a pile of bamboo leaves before walking away.#s63

On Wednesday, Egypt announced it had retrieved aro

On Wednesday, Egypt announced it had retrieved around 5,000 ancient items from the United States, after years of negotiations to return what it said were fraudulently acquired items.

In a statement, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities confirmed the "arrival at Cairo airport of a large number of ancient Egyptian items which had been in the possession of the Museum of the Bible in Washington.”

The items, totalling nearly 5,000, mainly consisted of manuscripts, but also included funeral masks, parts of coffins and the heads of stone statues, said Chaabane Abdeljawad, an official quoted in the statement.

The items, which left Egypt in a fraudulent manner, would be placed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, the statement added.

It was not clear how the items left Egypt illegally or ended up at the museum in Washington, but Egyptian authorities negotiated their return over several years.

Many treasured items were damaged, destroyed or illegally whisked out of the country during the popular uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Thousands of them have ended up on the international market, on internet sites or under the hammer at auctions.#s63

The Netherlands was hit by a second wave of riots

The Netherlands was hit by a second wave of riots on Monday evening, as protesters again went on the rampage in several cities following the introduction of a coronavirus curfew over the weekend.

Riot police clashed with groups of protesters in Amsterdam as well as the port city of Rotterdam, where people smashed shop windows and ransacked their supplies.

Geleen police said in an earlier tweet that they were dealing with "rioting youths who are throwing fireworks.”

In Rotterdam, police used a water cannon after clashing with the protesters, the NOS said.

The city's mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb issued an emergency decree which gave police broader powers of arrest.

"There is an urgent request to all to leave the area," the city council said on Twitter.

Images on social media showed rioters looting a shop in Den Bosch and a press photographer being hit in the head in Haarlem, after an angry mob chased him off and threw a brick at him.

Earlier Prime Minister Mark Rutte had condemned what he called the "criminal violence" of the previous night, which police officials described as the "worst rioting in 40 years".

Police arrested around 250 people after using water cannon and tear gas during demonstrations in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and other towns on Sunday, local media said.#s63

Concern is growing about the potential long-term i

Concern is growing about the potential long-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic on prisoners in England and Wales, even though jails have avoided the worst predictions about infections.

Covid-19 cases and deaths have been kept below the dire forecasts at the start of the crisis by imposing restrictions on prisons.

New arrivals have been quarantined those with symptoms and the most vulnerable isolated, but often at the expense of maintaining only the most basic aspects of the regime.

Food, medication and showers are still provided, alongside minimal daily exercise, with prisoners kept inside their cells almost all the time.

Four justice system inspectorates last week said some inmates were being held "in conditions which effectively amounted to solitary confinement".

It warned of the consequences of "the lack of meaningful human interaction", including face-to-face education and work on rehabilitation.

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor told lawmakers at a hearing there was a "deep malaise" among prisoners, who were "chronically bored and frustrated".

Inmates had reported their mental health is suffering and some are turning to drugs to cope, he added.

"They're feeling helpless and without hope... (and) have frequently described themselves as feeling like caged animals," he said.

Britain has been the hardest hit in Europe from Covid-19, and its prisons have fared little better, with higher case counts and death tolls than European neighbours such as Italy and Spain.

More than a hundred prisoners in England and Wales have died from the virus and nearly 8,000 inmates have been infected since it spread early last year, according to Ministry of Justice statistics.

Among prison staff employed directly or indirectly, there were 21 deaths and almost 3,200 positive cases by the end of October.

"It's been very difficult because obviously we've never faced anything like this," said Mick Pimblett, of the POA, which represents 30,000 prison staff.

He told AFP it is pushing for members to be prioritised for vaccinations, as Britain rolls out its biggest inoculation programme in stages, with some key workers among the first to get jabs.#s63

A spa in Cairo, Egypt is offering snake massages t

A spa in Cairo, Egypt is offering snake massages to its customers, with live snakes made to slither on the backs of people who are after some relaxing therapy.

The massage is something new in Egypt, but it's slowly gaining popularity.

The massage room has extra inhabitants in the form of pythons, which are used in the latest massage therapy, introduced by Safwat Sedki, the owner of the spa called Chill Out.

First, Sedki spreads oil to heat the body because these snakes thrive in relatively high temperatures. The snake's movements are haphazard, as they can be zigzag or circular, with no particular pattern. Every area the snake moves boosts the blood circulation in the body.

The python, which is much larger and heavier squeezes on the body and the forehead to give a relaxing feeling, reducing pain and muscle tightness.

The unorthodox session lasts between 20-40 minutes upon the customer's request.

There are physical and psychological benefits to snake massages.

Physically, it stimulates the blood flow and stimulates cerebral circulation.

Psychologically, it kills fear and tension, boosts hormones related to relaxation and happiness, which in turn strengthens the immune system and self-confidence especially for those who are scared of snakes, said Sedki.

Sedki plans to unveil new types of massages, which are more eccentric than snake massages.#s63

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia will host a two-day Dav

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia will host a two-day Davos-style investment forum with dozens of global policy makers and business tycoons lined up to speak at the partly virtual event amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Around 150 speakers will participate in the fourth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), organisers said, seeking to showcase the insular kingdom as a dynamic investment destination.

Around a hundred speakers will participate virtually from FII hubs in New York, Paris, Beijing and Mumbai and 50 will attend the conference in-person in Riyadh, they added.

The participants include Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon, Stephen Schwarzman, head of private equity firm Blackstone, American asset management company Blackrock's chief executive Larry Fink and former Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, organisers said.

The summit, earlier slated to be held last October, comes amid the pandemic which has battered the global economy.

"There has never been a more important time for leaders, investors and policy makers to come together to work towards re-energising the global economy," Yasir al-Rumayyan, chairman of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, said in a statement.

The summit, dubbed "Davos in the desert", was launched by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017, to woo foreign investors and promote his Vision 2030 diversification plan to wean the economy off its dependence on petro-dollars.

But the following year, the fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder by Saudi agents in Istanbul prompted a wave of business and political leaders to pull out of the glitzy conference at the last minute.

The murder at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul triggered one of the top crude exporter's worst ever diplomatic and public relations crises.

The conference saw a reboot in 2019 as global outrage over the murder subsided.

The forum is billed as an economic coming-out party for the petro-state, seeking to diversify away from oil and authorities are eager to project the kingdom's economic ambitions.#s63

Severe winds and heavy rains wrecked thousands of

Severe winds and heavy rains wrecked thousands of buildings, ruined crops and displaced almost 7,000 people in Mozambique over the weekend.

Tropical cyclone Eloise hit Mozambique's Sofala coastal province on Saturday morning, before weakening and heading inland to dump rain on Zimbabwe, formerly known as Swaziland and South Africa.

Authorities initially said Eloise had only caused minor damage in Mozambique's port city of Beira, but it was too early to gauge the full extent of the damage across the rest of the region.

On Sunday, Mozambique's National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) said, investigations had shown Eloise had injured 12 people and displaced 6,859.

"Families are in urgent need of essential supplies like food, water, blankets and shelter," Marcia Penicela, project manager at ActionAid Mozambique expressed.

Eloise ruined 136,755 hectares of crops, destroyed nine schools and damaged about 17 other schools and 11 hospitals, INGD said in a statement.

Eloise later weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.

Floods had hit the low veld of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, and winds had blown the roofs of houses and knocked down trees, blocking roads, he said.

Heavy rains were recorded in eastern and south eastern parts of Zimbabwe on Saturday, filling most dams and flooding some rivers.#s63

Heavy fighting at a Somali town near the Kenyan bo

Heavy fighting at a Somali town near the Kenyan border killed at least nine people, according to Somali sources, as tensions between the East African neighbours increase.

The fighting started late on Sunday, and continued into the early hours.

Somalia’s information ministry accused Kenya of supporting "rebels" to attack federal forces.

It said Kenyan troops, accompanied by Somali fighters trained by Kenya, entered the town of Bulohawo, in Jubaland territory, to attack Somali federal bases.

Jubaland, a semi-autonomous region in southern Somalia and bordering Kenya, is the subject of regular tensions between the countries.

Somalia severed diplomatic relations with Kenya in December, accusing Nairobi of interference.

Three Somali soldiers were killed, according to Colonel Mohamed Adbulle.

In Bulohawo, "the forces of the Somali national army repelled a raid by Kenyan troops and Somali rebel militias trained by them," Information Minister Osman Abukar Dube told a conference Press.

He accused the attackers of having "bombed places populated by civilians and killed five children and their mother.”

He also said, "Somali forces captured 100 rebels trained by Kenya during the fighting."#s63

Las Vegas schools are planning to reopen within we

Las Vegas schools are planning to reopen within weeks as anger and concerns grow over US student mental health and a possible surge in suicides since they closed due to Covid-19 last March.

Nevada's Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and the fifth-largest school district in the country, has recorded 19 suicides among students since the school closures.

That figure is "more than double the nine the district had the entire previous year," the district's press office told AFP, without directly tying the trend to reopening schools in the western state.

A large number of complex factors contribute to suicides, which can never be explained by a single cause, experts warn.

But studies have shown that the pandemic has particularly impacted more vulnerable parts of society, including among out-of-school youths.

An increase in psychological disorders have coincided with the coronavirus pandemic and associated lockdowns.

Former President Donald Trump repeatedly tried to pressure schools into reopening, while Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ex-director Robert Redfield cited "increases of adolescent suicide" among the costs of children missing school at a briefing last July.

"When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn't just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore," Clark County superintendent Jesus Jara, who has been lobbying for months to reopen schools, told the New York Times.

Adding, "We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They've got to start seeing some movement, some hope."

Alarmed by mental health concerns, the district set up an alert program last summer to identify at-risk students.

The scheme included sifting through iPads given to students to scan for key words related to suicide or mental health concerns, and prompted more than 3,100 alerts between June and October.

This caused the district to introduce 24-hour monitoring in November, according to the New York Times.#s63

Using crutches, Palestinian Mohamed Aliwa leaps fr

Using crutches, Palestinian Mohamed Aliwa leaps from one concrete slab to another, determined that his missing leg won't stop him doing parkour, a sport which brings respite from grim reality in Gaza.

The Palestinian teen's right leg was amputated near the knee in 2018 after he was hit by Israeli army fire during protests along the fortified border separating the Gaza Strip from Israel.

Along with his lower leg, he lost his dream of being a professional parkour athlete, he told AFP.

But watching his friends jumping from obstacle to obstacle, the 18-year-old, who now sometimes makes use of a prosthetic limb, decided that his disability shouldn't bring his moves to an end.

"I asked my friends to help me walk, and little by little I came to move and jump almost like them," he said, talking in a rehabilitation centre which he visits at least once a week.

Parkour, an extreme sport also known as free-running, originated in France in the 1990s.

It involves navigating urban obstacles using a fast-paced mix of jumping, vaulting, running and rolling.

"Sometimes I feel frustrated," says Aliwa. "But I told myself that if I could do that (again), then everything else in my life would be easy."

He says the sport gives him "incredible energy.”

But even the easiest jump carries risks, and that is why Jihad Abu Sultan, 32, opened what he says is the "first parkour academy in the Palestinian territories", with the support of French sporting goods giant Decathlon.

"I started doing parkour in 2005," he said at his club in Al-Shati refugee camp, near Gaza City.

Adding, "At the time, we didn't have a dedicated space, we trained in cemeteries and on the ruins of buildings destroyed by Israel.”

Abu Sultan says that the sport was practised by individuals on an ad hoc basis until two months ago, when he came together with fellow enthusiasts to establish the club, which they call "Wallrunners.”

It teaches the sport "in a safe way, far from the dangers of the street," he told AFP.#s63

The critically endangered Siamese crocodile has be

The critically endangered Siamese crocodile has been spotted for only the second time in a decade at Thailand's largest national park, according to photos released on Saturday.

The freshwater reptile, snapped by camera traps sunning itself at Kaeng Krachan National Park near the Thai border with Myanmar, was once ubiquitous across Southeast Asia, but its numbers have plummeted in the region.

It is currently listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's red list.

National park officials estimate only about 20 remain in the wild because of hunting and habitat loss, but on Saturday, the nature reserve shared a rare spot of good news.

The crocodile was captured by cameras slithering out of the water, before it parked itself on the river bank open-jawed under the sun.

The footage was captured in December and is "proof that Kaeng Krachan National Park is an important area for wildlife conservation," said Manoon Prewsoongnern, a park manager who works with the NGO World Conservation Society.

The crocodile is estimated to be about 3 metres long (9.8 feet), he said, adding that this is only the second sighting of the species in the past decade.

"The Siamese crocodile is a predator, but it is one of the first victims of environmental corrosion, so the sighting... is also evidence that the national park's environment is still pristine," Manoon said.

The endangered crocodile is highly sought after by poachers, who supply eggs and adult reptiles to farms around the region, where their skins are turned into luxury belts, shoes and handbags. #s63

The de facto chief of South Korea's Samsung busine

The de facto chief of South Korea's Samsung business empire will not appeal against his 2.5-year prison sentence for corruption, his lawyer said on Monday, in a move experts noted could pave the way for his early release on parole.

Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement in connection with the scandal which brought down former president Park Geun-hye.

The Seoul Central District Court jailed him after a retrial last week, the latest step in a long-running legal process that has hung over Samsung for years.

"Vice-chairman Lee will humbly accept the ruling and has decided not to appeal," his lawyer Lee In-jae said in a statement.

Prosecutors who had demanded nine years in jail also said they would not appeal, Yonhap news agency reported, essentially finalising the verdict.

As such, with time already served Lee will be eligible for parole as soon as September.

If Samsung had appealed, said Kim Dae-jong, a business professor at Sejong University, it ran the risk of Lee being given a longer sentence, and any parole application would have had to wait until after a Supreme Court ruling.

"Samsung is aiming for a presidential pardon in time for Chuseok," he told AFP, referring to Korea's autumn harvest festival.

Samsung is by far the biggest of the family-controlled conglomerates, or chaebols, which dominate business in the world's 12th-largest economy.

Its overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of the national gross domestic product and it is crucial to South Korea's economic health.

Experts have warned a prolonged leadership vacuum could hamper its decision-making on future large-scale investments of the kind that have been key to its rise.#s63

In a dog training centre built inside a shipping c

In a dog training centre built inside a shipping container located in a Czech mountain village, Renda, Cap and Laky are being put to the test.

They sniff at six vessels, each containing a piece of cloth with scent from patients with Covid-19, negative donors, or fake samples.

"Good boy!" exclaims Lenka Vlachova, a trainer working at Prague's fire brigade, as jagdterrier Renda sits down by one sample, wagging his tail.

The team of dog trainers are working in their own time and report a 95-percent success rate in Covid-19 detection in samples of human scent.

"The study is designed to verify dogs' ability to detect Covid-19 and generate a method enabling the use of trained dogs in combatting the pandemic," project head Gustav Hotovy told AFP.

"The method should also work with other diseases, even more lethal than Covid-19," Hotovy said.

"In the end, we should be able to detect a huge number of people in a very short time with a trained dog," he said, speaking in the snowy village of Kliny near the German border.

The samples used are obtained merely by rubbing a piece of cotton against the patient's skin.

The team then has to ensure the sample is virus-free to prevent the dogs from catching the disease.

Using the same sampling method, a Finnish team has been using dogs for testing at Helsinki airport, reporting its dogs can detect the virus with close to 100 percent accuracy.

Vlachova said the Czechs would like to work together with the Finns or with French and German teams working on similar projects.#s63

Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose

Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for half a century, died yesterday at 87.

King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. No cause of death was given, but CNN reported that King had been hospitalized for more than a week with COVID-19. His son Chance also confirmed King’s death.

A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN, where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.

With his celebrity interviews, political debate and topical discussions, King wasn’t an ordinary on-air personality. He set himself apart in each interview with his zealous curiosity, whether he was questioning the ‘Central Park jogger,’ a well-known assault victim or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential candidacy by announcing his candidacy on King’s show.

In its early years, “Larry King Live” was based in Washington, which gave the show an air of gravitas. King was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show prestige as a place where things happened, where news was made.

King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995, he presided over a Middle East peace summit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He welcomed everyone from the Dalai Lama to Elizabeth Taylor, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Barack Obama, Bill Gates to Lady Gaga.

King boasted about never overpreparing for an interview. His non confrontational style relaxed his guests and made him readily relatable to his audience.

He had many other medical issues in recent decades, including more heart attacks and diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and lung cancer.
Early in 2021, CNN reported that King was hospitalized for more than a week with COVID-19.

Through his setbacks he continued to work into his late 80s, taking on online talk shows and infomercials as his appearances on CNN grew fewer.
“Work,” King once said. “It’s the easiest thing I do.”#s63

New Zealand health officials on Sunday, confirmed

New Zealand health officials on Sunday, confirmed the first case of Covid-19 in the community for more than two months, sparking urgent contract-tracing efforts north of Auckland.

A 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe tested positive 10 days after completing a compulsory two weeks in managed isolation, although she had noticed symptoms several days before getting tested.

Contact tracing was underway after it was revealed the woman and her husband spent several days travelling around the Northland region while she was potentially infectious, visiting about 30 different locations.

Health Minister Chris Hipkins said it was too soon to decide whether a full or partial lockdown would be reintroduced.

"We don't know the origin or the strain of the infection," he told a press conference.

The woman returned to New Zealand on December 30th, after spending four months in Europe mainly in Spain and the Netherlands and was released from an Auckland quarantine hotel on January 13.

New Zealand director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield said she had returned two negative tests while in isolation, and her husband had not shown any symptoms.

It marks the first known case of community transmission in New Zealand since November 18.

Authorities were reviewing closed-circuit television footage to see if the woman contracted the virus while in the managed isolation facility.

More than 600 people who had spent time in the hotel have been asked to self-isolate and be re-tested for Covid-19.

It is the second time a returnee has developed coronavirus symptoms after being cleared to leave an isolation facility in New Zealand.

A man who returned from India in August returned two negative tests in isolation but did not start showing Covid symptoms until five days after his release.

New Zealand has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic, with just 25 deaths from 1,927 confirmed virus cases in a population of five million.#s63

Forensics teams in war-shattered Libya have discov

Forensics teams in war-shattered Libya have discovered ten more bodies in mass graves in a once militia-controlled town outside the capital Tripoli, the Government of National Accord said on Thursday.

"Three bodies were blindfolded and their wrists bound," the GNA's interior ministry said in a Facebook post on the latest grisly find at Tarhuna, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Tripoli.

The United Nations had voiced "horror" when the mass graves were first discovered last June. Since then more than 120 bodies have been exhumed there, including women and children, following the latest finds.

The discovery last June came a day after the withdrawal of forces loyal to eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar from the town.

Haftar had used Tarhuna as the main staging point for an ultimately failed attempt to seize the capital in a military offensive launched in April 2019.

New York-based Human Rights Watch has said more than 300 people had been abducted or reported missing in the past in Tarhuna, which is now back under GNA control.

Residents had reported that the local Al-Kani militia had "often abducted, detained, tortured, killed and disappeared people," said the rights watchdog.

Libya has been wracked by violence since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011.

The conflict pitted the GNA, recognised by the United Nations and backed by Turkey, against the eastern-based administration of Haftar, supported by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.

A ceasefire was signed in October, and the rival camps have since agreed to a UN-sponsored political dialogue, with presidential and legislative elections scheduled for later this year. #s63

Mothers in the Tunisian capital are accusing autho

Mothers in the Tunisian capital are accusing authorities of arbitrarily arresting their children in response to several nights of unrest, with rights groups saying at least thousand people have been detained.

"The policeman shoved the door of my building and arrested my son. My neighbours witnessed it," Meriem Ben Salem said after six nights of trouble on the streets between riot police and disaffected youths.

The 39-year-old mother said her son did not take part in the violence which gripped regions across Tunisia, including her working-class district of Kram-Ouest in Tunis.

"I work hard to earn money to enrol my children in extra-curricular activities to make sure they keep busy and not loiter in the neighbourhood because it's rife with drugs and alcohol," she said.

Her son Seifeddine, 18, was in the stairwell when the police "barged" in and grabbed him, said Ben Salem, who works as a seamstress in a factory for 500 dinars ($185) a month.

Seifeddine, a second-year student at a technical school with no criminal record, has been accused of taking part in acts of violence and is expected to stand trial on January 29.

"If my son had done something wrong, I would not defend him. He would have to assume responsibility for his actions," said Ben Salam.

On Wednesday, Ben Salam and other mothers rallied outside a Tunis courthouse to denounce the arrests.

Some said their children were taken into custody for having violated a night-time curfew imposed to stem the spread of coronavirus.

The protests erupted on January 14, before easing on Wednesday night, as the Covid-19 pandemic rattles an already embattled economy, 10 years after an uprising that toppled dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

At least 1,000 people, including many minors, have been arrested, human rights and other non-government groups told a news conference on Thursday.#s63

This morning, Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Herita

This morning, Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Heritage and Culture, Ambassador Amina Mohamed flagged off Kiligrit who were embarking on the “Seniors for Seniors Campaign.”

Summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, Kiligrit will be hiking for a noble cause raising $50,000 for a seniors feeding program conducted by a registered NGO in Kenya and Canada called Mama Ibado Charity. These funds will succor in alleviating hunger among the needy elderly in Kenya and consequently restore dignity to their lives.

Kiligrit’s campaign is the first of several fundraising events that will run throughout this year in celebration of Mama Ibado Charity’s ten-year-anniversary. These events aim to raise a total of $250,000. This amount will be used to increase the organization’s beneficiary base under the seniors feeding program from 650 individuals to 1,000.#s63

The number of people taking their own lives in Jap

The number of people taking their own lives in Japan rose for the first time in over a decade last year, as the pandemic reversed years of progress combatting a stubbornly high suicide rate.

Japan's health and welfare ministry on Friday said, 20,919 people died by suicide in 2020 according to preliminary data, up 3.7 percent from the previous year. Which compares with 3,460 deaths from coronavirus in the same period.

It marks the first year-on-year rise in suicides in more than a decade, with women and children in particular taking their lives at higher rates.

Japan has long had the highest suicide rate among the Group of Seven advanced countries -- though regionally South Korea registers higher figures. But the government has worked in recent years to better support people with mental health needs.

Japan has seen a smaller coronavirus outbreak than some countries, avoiding the harsh lockdown measures put in place elsewhere, and a fall in suicides during the first half of 2020 raised hopes that the pandemic's impact might be limited.

But the figures began to rise in July after a first state of emergency was lifted in May, a pattern experts say tracks with data showing suicides often drop in the first phase of crises such as conflicts and natural disasters, before rising sharply.

"For suicide in Japan, the rise was a major event and I think it was a big turning point," said Michiko Ueda, an associate professor of political science at Waseda University in Tokyo who studies suicide in Japan.

"The coronavirus is definitely a major factor," she told AFP, warning "we cannot deny the possibility that figures will rise again this year.”

Mental health experts around the world have warned that suicides could rise during the pandemic, driven by diverse factors including economic hardship, stress and family abuse.#s63

A large explosion killed at least three people and

A large explosion killed at least three people and destroyed most of a building in the Spanish capital Madrid on Wednesday.

Posts on social media showed a multi-level residential building with serious damage and debris littered over the street.

Smoke could be seen rising from the scene, across the city.

A witness said that "everything shook like a bomb" and that "much of the facade has fallen."

Local resident Leire Reparaz, 24, told AFP that she heard a loud explosion: "We didn't know where the sound came from. We all thought it was from the school. We went up the stairs to the top of our building and we could see the structure of the building and lots of grey smoke."

Firefighters, police and specialized emergency workers were at the scene and the surrounding area was evacuated. However, firefighters were reportedly unable to enter the building due to the ongoing fire.

At least three people died and eleven were injured in the blast. The city mayor said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a gas leak.

The blast happened just before 3 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) in Calle de Toledo, a main thoroughfare just south of the city center. The building, reportedly owned by the archdiocese, is located near a school, a church and a nursing home. It reportedly housed priests in training.

Local eatery Cafe Pavon offered shelter to the affected residents and acted as a liaison for concerned relatives.#s63

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