The official death toll in China from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 80, with 3,000 officially confirmed cases. A third case of the disease has appeared in the USA, in Phoenix, Arizona. Three possible instances are being investigated here in Virginia. Health officials are concerned by indications that the coronavirus may be spread via the mucus membranes of the eyes.
Merkel sells out
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what’s the fairest deal of all? Angela Merkel poses with gift from President Erdogan as they discuss EU aid for Turkey in return for migrant crisis help
- German leader Angela Merkel met with Turkish president Erdogan on Friday
- The leaders attended opening ceremony of Turkish-German university campus
- They are expected to discuss the migration deal between Turkey and the EU
- Comes amid fears of possible new refugee influx as thousands flee Syria attacks

Spearheaded by Germany, the EU agreed in 2016 to grant Turkey up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in Syrian refugee aid money and other incentives to persuade the government in Ankara to stop migrants leaving for Greece.
Hungary Sounds Alarm over Soros Plan for Billion-Dollar Global University Network
Three rockets in ‘direct hit on US embassy’ in Baghdad
The US embassy in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified green zone came under attack from rocket fire on Sunday evening.
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One killed, more than 100 wounded
Meanwhile, one protester was killed in Baghdad, police sources told Reuters news agency, and more than 100 demonstrators were hurt in violence in the capital and several other cities after the security forces tried to clear sit-in protest camps.
Israel’s PM says he hopes to ‘make history’ on White House trip for unveiling of Trump’s ‘deal of the century’.
Macron, Testy and Petulant Outside a Church In Jerusalem’
The disturbing story is here.
“Go outside,” French President Emmanuel Macron demanded in English in a melee with Israeli security men on Wednesday, demanding they leave a Jerusalem basilica that he visited before a Holocaust memorial conference.
Here’s what he shouted, in English, to the Israeli security men:
“I don’t like what you did in front of me. Go outside. I’m sorry but you know the rules.
“Nobody has to provoke, Nobody! We keep calm!
Emmanuel Macron was demanding that the Israeli security men who were standing at the entrance to the Church of St. Anne with only one purpose in mind – to make sure that he, President Macron, would be made as safe as possible in visiting the site– should leave, “go outside.” He didn’t think it right for Israeli police and Shin Bet to enter the church, which he considers to be the property of France, akin to an Embassy which, juridically, is a debatable proposition. Does he think that a Saudi-funded mosque in Paris would be off-limits to the French police?
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