Thursday Threads

Rev. George Hargreaves, an Oxford-educated minister in Great Britain, was being repeatedly shunned at work for his biblical beliefs on sexuality. Now an appeals tribunal has taken his side.

Today is the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This year, the Chinese government is repressing the annual vigil in Hong Kong.

A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China on Thursday morning, state media reported. The motive remains unknown. 

The British medical journal The Lancet announced Thursday it has retracted a study that claimed that COVID-19 patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a higher mortality rate and increased heart problems compared with those who did not take it, stating that the authors were “unable to complete an independent audit of the data underpinning their analysis.”

Over the weekend, a top medical official in Italy said the novel coronavirus — the illness that locked down much of the U.S. for three months — is losing its potency and is no longer nearly as lethal as it once was.

Germany’s eRockit puts its pedal-controlled electric motorcycle to the test on the famed highway with Sebastian “Satu” Kopke.

Unless you’re happy to upgrade your lounge room as often as you upgrade your smartphone, you need to make peace with home theatre ‘fear of missing out’.

The state of Ohio, the city of Cleveland, San Bernardino County in California, and other jurisdictions in the country are all at some stage of formally declaring racism a public health issue in their regions. The motion may not pass everywhere, but it is a sign of a change in how we view racism that may lead to positive change.

Musk’s post came in response to a tweet from a writer who said his book about COVID-19 was being removed from Amazon for violating unspecified guidelines

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A Chinese group known as Hurricane Panda targeted Trump campaign staffers while an Iranian outfit known as Charming Kitten had attempted to breach accounts of Biden campaign workers. Such phishing attempts typically involve forged emails with links designed to harvest passwords or infect devices with malware, Google said.

While China reaps advantages from US markets, the Chinese government has consistently prevented Chinese companies and companies with significant operations in China from abiding by the investor protections that apply to all companies listing on US stock exchanges, Trump alleged.

​​The data has been released after a strongly-worded directive from Central Information Commission (CIC) following a complaint by Right to Information (RTI) activist Venkatesh Nayak. ​​The chief labour commissioner had initiated this enumeration exercise during Lockdown 1.0 with lakhs of labourers trying to get back to their native villages.

“The government is trying to justify the privatisation of PSUs as it needs money to run the government machinery,” the BMS said. “It has no moral right or authority to sell national assets created by its predecessors,” the trade union added.

From questioning the accused to filing chargesheets to opposing bail pleas of high-profile accused to ensuring that they remain lodged in jail, agencies have focussed on pursuing investigations into the high-profile cases notwithstanding the constraints of lockdown.