Portal:Current events/2020 July 16

July 16, 2020 (2020-07-16) (Thursday)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 Pandemic
  • COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia
    • Reuters reports that the occupation of geisha in Tokyo Japan is threatened by the pandemic, with awkward working conditions and the absence of new apprentices. (Reuters).

Law and crime

• Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi says his country is "looking seriously at banning Facebook in the country" after "many people complained how it is used to hurt people", being himself a target of "defamation". (RNZ)
• In the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeals rules that 20-year-old British-born Shamima Begum, who left the country to join ISIL in 2015, can return to the UK to fight for her citizenship after the Home Office had revoked it due to her living in a refugee camp in Syria. The Home Office says the Court decision is "very disappointing" and that it would apply for permission to appeal. (BBC)

Politics and elections

• 2020 North Macedonian parliamentary election
  • The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia is projected to win a plurality of votes in North Macedonia's latest election. The nationalist VMRO-DPMNE would come a close second. (DW)

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