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iPhone 12 release date delayed  The release of the iPhone 12 will be delayed Apple has confirmed.  Apple usually reveals the new iPhone in September and then release it a couple of weeks later. But the company has now confirmed they won’t be able to follow the usual schedule, with the iPhone 12 release seemingly being pushed into October.  “Last year we started selling new iPhones in late September, this year we expect supply to be available a few weeks later,” Luca Maestri, Apple’s chief financial officer, told investors in a call following the company’s results. Apple rarely discusses the…

Fiji records its first Covid-19 death but says the virus is not present in Fijian communities On Friday Fiji announced its first coronavirus death, but health officials are telling the people in the Pacific island nation that it was not the precursor to a major outbreak.  Health Minister Ifereimi Waqainabete said the victim was a 66-year-old man who tested positive after returning from India where he had gone to have heart surgery.  “Sadly, despite the best efforts of our health -care professionals, this gentleman passed away yesterday in the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital due to complications from Covid-19,” Waqainabete…

GLOBAL COVID-19 TODAY CORONAVIRUS CASES: 17,481,953 DEATHS: 676,824 RECOVERED: 10,941,906 …………………………………… …………………………………… Visiting people at home banned in Northern England BBC News says separate households have been banned from meeting each other indoors in Greater Manchester, east Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire following a spike in coronavirus cases. The health secretary said the increase in transmission was “largely due” to people not observing social distancing. Labour criticised the government for a lack of clarity over the measures and for announcing them “late at night”. Read the full story on BBC News …………………………………… Companies ready to defy PM’s planned return…

#Muslims face racist backlash for rise in COVID-19 cases in the north of England

Historic $22Bn new trade deal opens up travel corridor between #UAE and #Indonesia

WTX BOOK REVIEW – UNCLE TOM’S CABIN BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WTX Book Review Don’t blame Uncle Tom … he’s already suffered enough By Yvonne Ridley I wonder how many of you have used the term Uncle Tom as an insult – may be aimed at someone who you think is betraying or selling out their political views, class or friends. There are probably many who don’t even realise the origins of the term. But my latest book review is so relevant to today’s amazing movement Black Lives Matter because the focus is on a novel which triggered the beginning of…

Short review of a book written by Andrew F March ‘The Caliphate of Man’ review by the bookworm Yvonne Ridley. So I read the title of this book and thought “Oh no! Not another Islamophobic, pseudo-intellectual squaring up to have yet another go at the Muslims. I was wrong on several counts. Baby-faced author Andrew F March is indeed an intellectual, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts and he does have a proven track record of writings on Islamic matters that are indeed worth reading. He also offers something relatively new and fresh in his…

Northern cities hit by Government lockdown – no Eid gatherings allowed.

Trump wants to delay the 2020 Presidential election  President Trump has suggested delaying the November 2020 presidential election saying increased postal voting could lead to fraud and inaccurate results.  He suggests the election should be delayed until people could “properly, securely and safely” vote.  There is little evidence to support the President’s claims but he has long rallied against mail-in voting which he has said would be susceptible to fraud.  US states want to make postal voting easier due to public health concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. Under the US constitution, Trump does not have the authority to postpone the…

16-year-old among students held in first arrests under new Hong Kong security law Hong Kong police have arrest four people including a 16-year-old, for suspected offences under the city’s new controversial national security law. The arrests are the first detentions outside of street protests since the legislation came into effect a month ago.  A police spokesman said three men and a woman, all students, were suspected of being involved in an online group that pledged to fight for an independent Hong Kong.  “We arrested for … subversions and for the organising and also the inciting [of] secession,” said Li Kwai-wah,…