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Don't Get Carried Away With Falling Covid Cases, Says UK PM Boris Johnson

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London:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that people should not get carried away by six days of better COVID-19 infection data, while one of the country's top epidemiologists said the end of the pandemic could be just months away.
Johnson has lifted restrictions in England and is betting he can get one of Europe's largest economies firing again because so many people are now vaccinated, a decision which marks a new chapter in the response to the novel coronavirus.
The number of new daily COVID-19 cases has fallen each day for the last six days, though Johnson stressed the pandemic is not over.
"I've noticed obviously that we're six days into some better figures, but it is very, very important that we don't allow ourselves to run away with premature conclusions about this," Johnson told broadcasters, noting it would take a while for the lifting of restrictions in England to feed through to the data.
"People have got to remain very cautious and that remains the approach of the government."
Imperial College epidemiologist Neil Ferguson said the end of Britain's pandemic could be just months away as vaccines have so dramatically reduced the risk of hospitalisation and death.
"We're not completely out of the woods but the equation has fundamentally changed," Ferguson, whose modelling of the virus's likely spread at the outset of the pandemic in early 2020 alarmed governments across the world, told the BBC.
Johnson lifted COVID-19 restrictions in England on July 19. New daily cases in the current wave peaked two days earlier at 54,674 and have since fallen dramatically, to 24,950 new cases on Monday.
The closure of schools for the summer holidays, the end of the Euro 2020 soccer championships and warmer weather are among factors epidemiologists say might have reduced social mixing indoors and therefore cases, even as England's economy has fully reopened.
While the number of COVID-19 patients in British hospitals has risen to 5,238, a spike in infections earlier in July has so far not led to a vast increase in deaths, which fell to 14 on Monday.
Britain has one of the highest official death tolls from COVID-19 in the world, with 129,460 deaths, but vaccinations and lockdown measures have greatly slowed the rate of deaths since March.
Ferguson said the impact of vaccines on reducing the risk of hospitalisation from COVID-19 had been huge, adding: "I'm positive that by late September, October time we will be looking back at most of the pandemic."
Case numbers have been falling for longer in Scotland, where the recent peak in cases was on July 1, than in England, corresponding to an earlier elimination from the Euros.
"From a sporting perspective ... Scotland went out far too early, but epidemiologically that probably did us some favours," Scotland's National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said.
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Six Dead in Landslide, Flooding At Rohingya Camps In Bangladesh

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Dhaka:
At least six Rohingya Muslims, including children, were killed and several injured on Tuesday after heavy monsoon rains triggered a landslide in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, officials said.
"So far we have information of five people who died in the landslides in camps and one child swept away by flooding," Mohammad Shamsud Douza, a senior Bangladesh government official in charge of the refugees, said.
He said there were also children among the landslide victims.
Another government official said heavy monsoon rains over the last two days flooded most of the refugee camps.
Nearly one million Rohingya are living in squalid camps in the border district of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee settlement, since fleeing a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state nearly four years ago.
Bangladesh weather office said it expected heavy rains to continue for the next few days.
Rohingya refugees mostly live in shacks made of bamboo and plastic sheets that cling to steep, bare hills, and flooding has further worsened their living conditions.
"Monsoons and landslides are making our situation even more precarious," Rohingya refugee, Mohammad Ismail, told Reuters.
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Committed To Stable, Constructive Relationship With China: US Defence Chief

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"We will not flinch when our interests are threatened," U.S. Defense Chief Lloyd Austin said. (File)
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Singapore:
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday he was committed to having a constructive relationship with China and working on common challenges as he laid out his vision for ties with Beijing, which have sunk to their lowest point in decades.
The United States has put countering China at the heart of its national security policy for years and President Joe Biden's administration has called rivalry with Beijing "the biggest geopolitical test" of this century.
While Austin's speech in Singapore touched on the usual list of behavior Washington describes as destabilizing, from Taiwan to the South China Sea, his comments about seeking a stable relationship could provide an opening for the two countries to start to reduce tension.
"We will not flinch when our interests are threatened. Yet we do not seek confrontation," Austin said in Singapore.
"I am committed to pursuing a constructive, stable relationship with China, including stronger crisis communications with the People's Liberation Army."
Austin has been unable to speak with any senior Chinese official despite repeated attempts since starting as defense secretary in January.
Even with the tension and heated rhetoric, U.S. military officials have long sought to keep open lines of communication with their Chinese counterparts, to be able to mitigate potential flare-ups or tackle any accidents.
A top Chinese diplomat, in rare high-level talks with the United States, on Monday accused Washington of creating an "imaginary enemy" to divert attention from domestic problems and suppress China.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat, had arrived on Sunday for the face-to-face meetings in China's northern city of Tianjin.
"Big powers need to model transparency and communication," Austin said.
NOT A BINARY CHOICE
The speech by Austin, who is set to visit Vietnam and the Philippines later this week to emphasize the importance of alliances, is being closely watched by states in the region worried about Beijing's increasingly assertive behavior but heavily reliant on access to China's large markets.
"We are not asking countries in the region to choose between the United States and China. In fact, many of our partnerships in the region are older than the People's Republic of China itself," Austin said.
Biden has ramped up sanctions on China over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and targeted more Chinese official last week.
In a shift from Trump, Biden has broadly sought to rally allies and partners to help counter what the White House says is China's increasingly coercive economic and foreign policies.
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Beijing's South China Sea Claim Has "No Basis In International Law": US

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Singapore:
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that Beijing's expansive claims in the South China Sea have "no basis in international law", taking aim at China's growing assertiveness in the hotly contested waters.
"That assertion treads on the sovereignty of the states in the region," he said at the start of a trip to Southeast Asia, where several countries have competing claims with China in the sea.
"We continue to support the region's coastal states in upholding their rights under international law."
Speaking in Singapore, he said the US "will not flinch when our interests are threatened, yet we do not seek confrontation" with China.
"I am committed to pursuing a constructive, stable relationship with China, including stronger crisis communications with the People's Liberation Army."
China claims almost the entire resource-rich sea, through which trillions of dollars in shipping trade passes annually, with overlapping claims from Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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Big Tech Companies Agree To Work Together In Internet Freedom Crackdown

A new initiative launched by cybersecurity experts encourages companies to create a system that makes it easier for people to be reported to their employers for “online abuse.”
The new program is called Respect in Security and was created by Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson and Red Goat Cyber Security’s Lisa Forte.
According to Forte, the current system, which is largely based on a combination of AI and human reviewers working for social media companies, is a “no man’s land” and not very effective.
“The best solution we have, if the culprit is identifiable, is to approach their employer,” she argues.
According to Ferguson, companies currently only deal with “abuse” that happens internally and are ill-equipped to monitor what their staff are saying online.
Companies who sign up for the initiative are required to agree to seven principles and create a public reporting system that encourages employees to keep tabs on each other’s behavior.
“If you know your organization has made that commitment, it may make you think twice about doing it,” Ferguson said. “We need to take action.”
The pair appear to have failed to take into account that the primary means by which someone gets fired from their job over online behavior is via social media mobs who directly contact employers themselves.
They routinely do so not because a person has engaged in actual “online abuse,” but because they have expressed a political opinion deemed to contradict woke orthodoxy.
Of course, the term “online abuse” is completely vague and arbitrary and routinely abused by leftists who claim that words which they disagree with are “violence” and that them making themselves upset and playing the victim constitutes proof of “abuse.”
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan Completely Ignores Speaker’s Corner Stabbing of Woman Wearing Charlie Hebdo T-Shirt

A shocking incident where a woman at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London, wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt was stabbed in the face in broad daylight by an assailant who still hasn’t been caught was completely ignored by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The attack, which happened at around 3:30pm on Sunday, targeted 39-year-old Hatun Tash, who fled Turkey after renouncing Islam for Christianity. She now preaches on behalf of Defend Christ Critique Islam Ministries and is a regular fixture at Speaker’s Corner.
Footage shared on social media shows an individual dressed in black approach the woman and slash her across the face. He flees the scene as some bystanders take chase while others attempt to come to the aid of the injured woman.
Tash subsequently collapses to the ground and is seen bleeding from the head.
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A Christian preacher has been stabbed at Speakers Corner by an Islamic extremist.
We were supposed to be there today and we thank Hashem we cancelled at the last minute.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Hatun Tash.
We are praying for her speedy recovery.
Video: <a href="https://twitter.com/el_soco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@el_soco</a> <a href="https://t.co/HJYAvhWzCu">pic.twitter.com/HJYAvhWzCu</a>
— Israel Advocacy Movement (@israel_advocacy) <a href="https://twitter.com/israel_advocacy/status/1419349192699486210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2021</a>
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Police asked people to “not to speculate on the motive for the attack” (despite it being blindingly obvious) and belittled her as suffering only a “minor slash injury to her head.”
Despite a knife being found and there being multiple witnesses to the attack, Metropolitan Police have not yet caught the culprit.
“As evidenced by the sirens blaring nearby the scene in the video, police appeared to be nearby, so it’s unclear as to why they weren’t able to arrest the attacker, who fled on foot. One video showed a police car giving chase,” reports <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/christian-street-preacher-wearing-charlie-hebdo-t-shirt-stabbed-london-park">Zero Hedge</a>.
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Woman wearing a Charlie Hebdo T-shirt has been stabbed at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park
So we've got a teacher in hiding fearing for his life and people being stabbed on the streets <a href="https://t.co/noj9mMKVf4">pic.twitter.com/noj9mMKVf4</a>
— Jamie Rightly 🇬🇧 (@JamieRightly) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamieRightly/status/1419399696578224138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2021</a>
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After the incident, media reports centered on the fact that the woman was wearing the Charlie Hebdo shirt and not the obvious motive of the attacker, with some <a href="https://www.rt.com/uk/530298-hyde-park-preacher-charlie-hebdo-stabbed/">suggesting</a> the implication that the victim had deserved it.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has failed to acknowledge the incident at all, something that undoubtedly wouldn’t be the case had the roles had been reversed.
Despite Khan branding a speech by an anti-vaxxer nurse at a protest on Saturday “disgusting” and calling for the police to investigate her, Khan has remained completely silent on the stabbing attack, which apparently isn’t as “disgusting” as some offensive words.
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This is disgusting. Our NHS staff have given everything to help Londoners during the pandemic —they are heroes. I’ve spoken to <a href="https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MetPoliceUK</a> about this incident and they have my full support to investigate it.
— Mayor of London (@MayorofLondon) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofLondon/status/1419695654436225033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2021</a>
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Maybe this is just “part and parcel of living in a big city,” as Khan once said about the threat of terror attacks.
Tash was previously detained by police for 20 hours and has routinely faced “intimidation, threats, sexual assaults and physical assaults” for preaching at Speaker’s Corner, including an incident in October 2020, where she was assaulted and knocked unconscious.
The location has become notorious in recent years for being physically dominated by Muslim men who form large mobs to try to intimidate Christians and other Muslims from different sects, with police being largely ineffective at keeping the peace.
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revolution summit London Mayor Sadiq Khan Completely Ignores Speaker’s Corner Stabbing of Woman Wearing Charlie Hebdo T-Shirt

A shocking incident where a woman at Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London, wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt was stabbed in the face in broad...