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Bollywood lost yet another actor as Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide at his residence in Mumbai. While the industry is still reeling with the passing away of Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor, Bollywood has to now deal with yet another loss. Sushant was a young aspiring actor, at 34 years old and people remarkably loved him for his performances on the small screen as well as in movies. Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide at his Bandra residence by hanging himself on Sunday, Additional Commissioner of Police Dr Manoj Sharma confirmed. We await more details. https://twitter.com/TheFarahKhan/status/1272136262053322754 “Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide, Mumbai Police is…

Top Mexican beach getaway reopens Foreign visitors have begun to trickle back to the white sands and warm waters of the Caribbean coast of Mexico as its popular beaches gradually reopen to tourism with new sanitary measures in place to prevent the spread of the  CORONAVIRUS. “I’ve been stuck in New York City in my apartment for three months, so I decided that on the beach somewhere open was probably a good call,” said web designer Sam Leon, 31, after arriving Saturday at the airport of famed resort town Cancun. He said he planned to head to the trendy beach…

Britain will urgently review its two-metre social distancing rule as it tries to help the economy recover from a 25% CORONAVIRUS crisis collapse, finance minister Rishi Sunak said. Progress in tackling the coronavirus meant Britain was able to take a “fresh look” at the rule, which many employers have said will make it harder for them to get back up to speed, Sunak said on Sunday. “The prime minister has put in place a comprehensive review of the two-metre rule. That review will involve the scientists, economists and others,” he said, adding that all of this would not put safety…

Australia’s two largest states will further ease public coronavirus restrictions at libraries, community centres and nightclubs, officials said on Sunday, despite recording increases in new infections. New South Wales (NSW), the most populous state, said that from July 1, a 50 person limit on indoor venues such as restaurants and churches would be scrapped, so long as the venues observed a one person per four square metre rule. Nightclubs and music festivals would operate from August if new cases remain low, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. The state on Saturday reported the first locally transmitted COVID-19 case in weeks, and…

Friday June 12 coronavirus updates BRIEF – ME! – DAILY NEWS BRIEFINGFriday 12 June 2020 News Briefing – Today’s headlines are dominated by the global Coronavirus Pandemic. As of 6:30 am (GMT), these are the global active numbers.Global COVID-19 UPDATECoronavirus Cases: 7,600,265Deaths: 432,901Recovered: 3,843,996 England may join West Indies in protest says AndersonUK economy shrinks by 20.4%Netflix drops the Mighty Boosh Previous Next Headlines: What the papers say? UK economy shrinks by record 20.4% in April lockdown.BAME review: call to publish COVID protection advice.India’s coronavirus caseload ranks fourth in the world as infections near 300,000.Indonesia’s suspected child coronavirus deaths highlight danger.US coronavirus:…

Australian officials warned Black Lives Matter supporters they could arrest them if they breach CORONAVIRUS restrictions to take part in public protests, as debate erupted over the country’s own indigenous history. Prime Minister Scott Morrison drew strong criticism on Thursday after he said “there was no slavery in Australia” during a discussion of the early days of British settlement, which he acknowledged was “pretty brutal.” Shock and agitation expressed, Australia’s history of slavery Historians, Aboriginal activists and some lawmakers expressed shock and dismay at the comments. However, Australia does have a history of forced labour and stolen wages of Aboriginal…

Bar Refaeli tax evasion case The long-standing Bar Refaeli tax evasion case has reached a conclusion. The Israeli supermodel will be doing nine months of community service. And her mother is set to be jailed after signing a plea bargain agreement to settle the case. The deal over the case is built around the supermodel’s worldwide income and alleged attempts to downplay her ties to Israel. Her mother, Zipi, who acted as her agent, will be sent to prison for 16 months. In addition, they have been ordered to pay a £790,000 fine on top of millions of back taxes. …

Thursday 11 June coronavirus updates BRIEF – ME! – DAILY NEWS BRIEFINGThursday 11 June 2020 News Briefing – Today’s headlines are dominated by the global Coronavirus Pandemic. As of 6:30 am (GMT), these are the global active numbers.Global COVID-19 UPDATECoronavirus Cases: 7,460,415Deaths: 419,049Recovered: 3,779,035 JK Rowlinglocal authorities could go bust unless govt takes immediate actionAJ and Fury to fight Previous Next Headlines: What the papers say? Trump is getting his reopening as the virus takes another swipe.UK: Growing calls for the government to cut the 2-metre rule.Crisis means local authorities could go bust.Experts warn of second-wave in Egypt.Palestinians stranded by Covid-19 seek…

PALESTINE will declare statehood over all of the West Bank and Gaza, with Jerusalem as its capital, and push for global recognition if ISRAEL goes ahead with plans to annex land it occupies, the Palestinian prime minister has said. Speaking from his office in Ramallah to an audience of foreign media organisations, Mohammad Shtayyeh said that the Palestinian Authority would unilaterally declare an independent state along with the 1967 partitions, with Jerusalem as its capital. Mohammad Shtayyeh described the possible step pledged by the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, as an “existential threat” to a decades-long international effort for Israelis and…

The State Department informed Congress it intends to reopen the US consulate in Wuhan later this month aiming to be reopened around June 22, 2020. The State Department noted that “at the current time, conditions in China generally, and Hubei province specifically, have improved to such a degree that resuming operations in Wuhan is appropriate.” The US consulate was shut down when the  U.S. State Department withdrew staff and their families in late January after the Chinese government put the city under lockdown to curb the spread of the CORONAVIRUS. https://twitter.com/aadilbrar/status/1270402739219161089 The rhetoric between Washington and Beijing has been heated throughout…