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world news Diabierna 11 September 2020

US will end current health screening of some travelers

(AP) — The United States health, “has limited effective- ple coming from those coun-
plans to end enhanced health ness” because some infected tries who aren’t U.S. citizens
screening of travelers from people show no symptoms. have been barred entry to the
certain countries next week, The health agency said in- country. The Homeland Se-
and those visitors will no stead it will focus on other curity Department did not
longer be funneled through measures including a stron- immediately respond to a re-
15 large U.S. airports. ger response to reports of quest for comment. A trade
Those requirements were illness at airports, collecting group representing the na-
imposed in February to pre- passenger-contact electroni- tion's largest carriers praised
vent the spread of COV- cally to avoid long lines, and the change.
ID-19. The Centers for Dis- “potential testing to reduce
ease Control and Prevention the risk of travel-related “We continue to support
said the government will re- transmission” of the virus. spending scarce screening
move those edicts beginning resources where they can ing a health issue, agree that reopen international travel.
Monday. The extra health screening best be utilized,” Airlines it no longer makes sense to The groups argue that more
applies to people who have for America said in a state- continue screening at these screening could allow coun-
The CDC said the current been in China, Iran, most ment Thursday, “and, given airports.” Separately, 18 travel tries to lift travel restrictions
screening, which includes countries in continental Eu- the extremely low number and airline groups asked the and quarantines that have
temperature checks and rope, the United Kingdom, of passengers identified by administration to start pre- shut down most travel be-
travelers vouching for their Ireland and Brazil. Most peo- the CDC as potentially hav- flight virus testing as a way to tween the U.S. and Europe.

China says ambassador hacked in 'like' of pornographic tweet

(AP) — The Chinese Em- Twitter account and em- of which are the ambassador's
bassy in the United Kingdom ployed despicable methods own tweets. Like most popu-
has demanded that Twitter to deceive the public. The lar overseas social media plat-
investigate after its ambassa- Embassy has reported this to forms, Twitter is blocked in
dor's official account liked a Twitter company and urged China, while Chinese social
pornographic post on the so- the latter to make thorough media such as Weibo, China's
cial media platform. investigations and handle this version of Twitter, steer well
A human rights advocate on matter seriously." clear of controversial topics
Twitter posted a screenshot Twitter declined to comment to avoid repercussions from
on Wednesday showing that on the incident. The BBC the authorities.
Chinese Ambassador Liu reported Wednesday that the However, Chinese officials,
Xiaoming had liked the post. ambassador's official account particularly in the foreign
had also liked a tweet criti- ministry, have recently taken
The embassy responded cal of Chinese officials and to Twitter and other social
quickly, sharing a statement another critical of the mass media to advocate for China's
Wednesday night saying, detention of China's Uighur official positions, denigrate
“Recently, some anti-China Muslims. critics and counter criticisms
elements viciously attacked But on Thursday the account over human rights, foreign
Ambassador Liu Xiaoming’s only showed two likes -- both policy and other issues.

Asian shares mostly higher as US set to reopen from holiday

(AP) — Asian shares were mostly option-market after-shocks," he said. economy from China, as the presi- to $39.13 a barrel in electronic trad-
higher Tuesday, after European stocks dential campaign heats up. ing on the New York Mercantile Ex-
rallied and U.S. markets were closed Wall Street’s slide on Friday fol- The Asian region depends heavily on change. Brent crude, the internation-
for the Labor Day national holiday. lowed a Labor Department report a healthy Chinese economy, and trade al standard, added 6 cents to $42.07
Investors are focusing on uncertain- that showed U.S. hiring slowed to with the U.S., as well as with China. per barrel.
ties over the coronavirus pandemic 1.4 million last month. That was the The dollar inched down to 106.23
and hopes for a vaccine. Attention is fewest jobs added since the economy “We appear to be short on clarity,” Japanese yen from 106.27 yen. The
now on how Wall Street might pick started bouncing back from the initial said Ogawa. euro fell to $1.1805 from $1.1817.
up after the holiday break, given the shock of the pandemic. The United Benchmark U.S. crude fell 64 cents
decline that came last week after States has recovered about half the 22
months of surging prices. million jobs lost during the crisis. In
Europe, another round of Brexit trade
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 talks is scheduled in London for later
gained 0.6% in morning trading to in the day. On Monday, the European
23,222.31. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 Union warned the British govern-
added 0.7% to 5,986.90. South Ko- ment that any attempt to renege on
rea's Kospi gained 0.8% to 2,403.53. commitments made ahead of its de-
Hong Kong's Hang Seng was little parture from the bloc earlier this year
changed, inching up less than 0.1% could put at risk the hard-won peace
to 24,599.49, while the Shanghai in Northern Ireland. Britain left the
Composite slipped 0.2% to 3,286.01. bloc on Jan. 31, but the two sides are
“Traders and investors alike may in a transition period that ends at the
slowly but surely come around to the end of this year and are negotiating
idea that last week’s market rout was their future trade ties.
tech sector-specific, rather than any
real change in underlying sentiment,” Riki Ogawa at the Asia & Oceania
said Stephen Innes, chief global mar- Treasury Department at Mizuho
kets strategist at AxiCorp. “There was Bank in Singapore warned that plenty
nothing ‘fundamental’ behind last of other uncertainties remained, such
week’s equity sell-off, but it will most as President Donald Trump's com-
certainly take a while to clear all the ments about “decoupling” the U.S.