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Another 393 people have died after contracting coronavirus - taking the UK total to 1,808. The latest increase is a sharp increase from yesterday's rise of 180. The government has said there are now 25,150 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK. In England, a further 367 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died, bringing the total number to 1,651. The patients were aged between 19 and 98 years old and all but 28 of them had underlying health conditions.

 Nationwide - one of the UK's biggest lenders pulled out of new deals. Others are doing the same as the home mortgage market goes into lockdown amid the coronavirus which has brought the economy to a standstill. It rules out first-time borrowers or existing homeowners with little equity in their homes. It will allow it to "focus on supporting existing mortgage members while continuing to process ongoing applications", it said.

Source: BBC News A further 13 people with #coronavirus have died in #Scotland, bringing the total to 60. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said a total of 1,993 people had now tested positive for the virus, up from 1,563 on Monday. Ms Sturgeon said this partially explained the big increase in the number of positive tests. But she stressed that the actual number of cases of Covid-19 in Scotland is likely to be far higher than the figures show. There are currently 135 patients with the virus in hospital intensive care units - an increase of 27 from Monday.

A frontline NHS consultant has died after testing positive for the coronavirus. Amged El-Hawrani was an ear, nose and throat specialist at Queen's Hospital Burton. The 55-year-old died on Saturday night at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. It was understood he had not been in contact with patients in recent weeks. Dr El-Hawrani is the first frontline hospital worker in the UK to die after contracting COVID-19.

The UK may not have all the ventilators it needs by the time #coronavirus cases in the country reach their peak, engineering firms warned. Health officials expect the UK to experience its highest number of infections in around two weeks' time. The UK has just over 8,000 ventilators, significantly fewer than the 30,000 the government estimates are needed to cope with the fallout from the peak. Manufacturers told the BBC they cannot produce enough to meet that deadline.

President Erdogan’s office sent a letter to the heads of religious minorities in Turkey demanding that they sign it and send it back to the President. In that letter, Erdogan falsely claimed that Turkey was alone on the forefront of the fight against international terrorism. Contrary to Erdogan’s claims, there have been dozens of reports in the international media proving that Turkey was in fact on the forefront of those assisting ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq. Ahmet S. Yayla is someone who has first-hand knowledge of the Turkish government’s support for ISIS as he was the chief of counterterrorism and operations in Turkey from 2010 to 2013, and chief of public order and criminal investigations in Sanliurfa, Turkey, from 2013 to 2014. Sanliurfa was the endpoint of the ISIS “jihadi highway.” Yayla wrote an in-depth article on March 6, 2020, in The Investigative Journal, exposing Erdogan’s complicity in terrorism. The article was titled, “Try Erdogan at the International Crimi...

Turkey has been accused of embedding its armed forces among militant positions in an insurgent-held corner of #Syria, They have also been accused of plotting chemical attacks. The Russian Defense Ministry alleged that "#Turkey has allowed its observations posts, established under 2018 #Sochi deal, to virtually merge with #terrorist bases in #Idlib," according to a tweet posted Wednesday by Moscow's embassy in Damascus. "In violation of international law it has deployed a strike force the size of a mechanized division there."

On This Day in 2015 Richard III, the only English monarch without a marked grave, was reinterred at Leicester Cathedral after much wrangling, including High Court action over his final resting place. Richard III's body was buried in the now-demolished Franciscan Friary in Leicester and was discovered in September 2012 under what had become a car park. From 28th March 2015, the area of Richard III's tomb was open to the public.   Read More:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhumation_and_reburial_of_Richard_III_of_England

According to reports within Iran, the country has around 4,000 sex reassignment surgeries every year, in an attempt to purge homosexuality from the Islamic Republic. Life for gay men in Iran continues to be a psychological nightmare. In the Islamic Republic, homosexuality is illegal and punishments usually range anywhere from torture to public executions. The Iranian regime's treatment of transexuals, however, seems on the surface to be a different matter altogether. Transsexuality was legalized in Iran in 1987 and the country has the second-highest number of sex reassignment surgeries (SRSs) per year, second only to Thailand. However, in an interview with the British Sun newspaper, Iranian-born activist Shadi Amin claimed that the reason for this high number of SRSs in the country is not as accepting as it may seem on paper. According to Amin, the Iranian government gives gay men the choice to go through the surgery in place of being tortured or executed. Amin said t...

BREAKING: London City Airport has temporarily suspended all commercial and private flights until the end of April during the #coronavirus outbreak. #CoronavirusOutbreak pic.twitter.com/fjxUK689c2 — English Daily (@EnglishDaily) March 25, 2020

Iran ruled out "foreign" help on the ground to deal with the #coronavirus pandemic after an offer from a France-based medical charity, as the country's death toll from the contagion neared 2,000. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Sunday it planned to send a nine-member team and equipment to set up a 50-bed hospital, stirring opposition from ultra-conservative circles in the Islamic Republic who alleged MSF staff would serve as "spies". MSF said on Tuesday it did not understand a decision by Iranian authorities to cancel a mission it had prearranged to set up a facility to fight coronavirus in Isfahan. #CoronavirusLockdown

French President Emmanuel Macron has accused his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan of breaking his promise to stay out of Libya. Mr Macron said Turkish warships accompanied by Syrian mercenaries had been spotted arriving in Libyan. Turkey supports the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli. Since April 2019, the GNA has fought back against an offensive launched by fighters loyal to Gen Haftar. Mr Macron said the presence of Turkish warships was "a clear violation" of what President Erdogan had pledged in Berlin on 19 January during a conference on Libya with other world leaders. Mr Macron called Turkey's actions "detrimental to the security of all Europeans and Sahelians".

Two thousand Syrian fighters have traveled from Turkey or will arrive imminently to fight on the battlefields of Libya, Syrian sources in all three countries have said, in an unprecedented development that threatens to further complicate the north African state’s intractable civil war. The deployment came after Turkey agreed last month to come to the aid of the Libyan prime minister, Fayez al-Sarraj. An initial deployment of 300 men from the second division of the Syrian National Army (SNA), an umbrella of Syrian rebel groups funded by Turkey, left Syria through the Hawar Kilis military border crossing on 24 December, followed by 350 more on 29 December. They were then flown to Tripoli, the Libyan capital, where they have been posted to frontline positions in the east of the city.

A video has emerged of Turkish police beating and forcing illegal migrants to cross the Greek Evros border at gun point. The video which was taken with a hand held device, shows a police officer telling the illegal migrants (including women & children) to “get off the bus. You are going to the other side.” When they refuse to get off the bus, a military officer takes out his gun and waves it around while threatening them that he will “beat up the ones who don’t” get out and follow their orders.

Source: BBC Boris Johnson has warned "tougher measures" could be introduced if people do not take the government's coronavirus advice seriously. The PM thanked people for making sacrifices but said people must follow social distancing guidance. "If you don't do it responsibly... we will have to bring forward further measures," he said. It comes as the number of UK deaths reached 281, including a person aged 18 with an underlying health condition. Speaking at Downing Street's daily news conference, Mr Johnson told people going to parks they "have to do that responsibly". It comes after pictures showed people across parts of the UK visiting parks and open spaces in large numbers over the weekend.

Greece closed its borders to asylum seekers coming from #Turkey due to the #coronavirus outbreak & they are right to do so, Greece has at least seven cases of coronavirus so far. The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced that the country would not be accepting any new asylum applications for at least one month. He also said the country's national security council had decided "to increase the level of deterrence at our borders to the maximum." The Greek prime minister had announced increased border security against migrants last week, citing coronavirus concerns. "Migration is now taking on a new dimension, as flows to Greece include people from Iran where we have had many cases of coronavirus and many passing through Afghanistan," he said at a ministerial meeting on February 27. "Our islands, therefore, already burdened with public health issues, need to be protected twice."

Iran is the paradigm case of a regime sponsoring terrorism which is known to be getting hit harder than any other countries besides China and Italy. The Islamic Republic is notoriously dishonest about numbers which can hurt its public relations. Most significantly, top Iranian leaders, including an ayatollah, ministers and senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials have been killed and infected by the coronavirus. In that vein, much of Iran’s top leadership, including Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (who incidentally has not been seen during the crisis), are in the more endangered “elderly” category. There are no statistics for how it is impacting ISIS supporters and will be none as the group would never report negative data and has no connections to international groups like the WHO or the civilized world. But ISIS’s stunning recent order to its followers to stay away from Europe means not only that it is afraid of future infection if its agents go there, but...

Iran’s health ministry said on Thursday that a person is dying of coronavirus every ten minutes in #Iran. After weeks of skewed numbers and accusations of downplaying or covering up the coronavirus prevalence in Iran, the Tehran government is finally voicing the horrifying extent of the problem in its borders. “Based on our information, every ten minutes one person dies from the coronavirus and some 50 people become infected with the virus every hour in Iran,” Kianush Jahanpur, the spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, tweeted. The embattled nation’s official death toll this week soared past 1,000, making it the third-highest globally behind Italy and China, where the disease started. However, political opposition groups highlight that the statistics inside the Islamic Republic are even gloomier – indicating that upwards of 7,000 individuals have succumbed to the contagion.

Doctor Güle Çınar was forced to apologize after saying in a secret footage that there are thousands of coronavirus cases in Turkey contrary to the numbers cited by officials. “The number of cases is at thousands. In a footage recorded secretly during a conference given to medical professionals in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine’s İbni Sina Hospital, doctor Güle Çınar is heard saying that there are thousands of coronavirus cases, as she was talking about the precautions need to be taken at hospitals. “The number of cases is at thousands. The numbers are not at hundreds as officials reveal. It’s now in the society and Istanbul is in a terrible condition. It also started terrible in Ankara,” Çınar says in the video that surfaced on social media on March 18. Following the incident, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine forced Çınar to apologize in a written statement, in addition to launching an investigation into the doctor.

Nine migrant labourers working on the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died in 2019, the “supreme committee” organising the event has announced, bringing the number of deaths on World Cup projects to 34, since construction began six years ago. The latest figures, released in its annual report on workers’ welfare, include four workers who died of so-called natural causes and three who were killed in a company bus accident. There were no deaths caused by workplace accidents in 2019. The supreme committee said it investigates each death to identify contributory factors and preventative measures. “Any loss of life on our programme is deeply saddening,” said Hassan Al Thawadi, the head of the supreme committee, in the report. Qatari law and the supreme committee’s worker welfare standards do not require companies to pay compensation for non-work related deaths. However, in October the Guardian revealed that Qatar rarely carries out post-mortems when a migrant...

Three Turkish men were sentenced this week to 125 years in jail for their part in the drowning of a boy whose death in 2015 became a worldwide symbol of the suffering caused by the Syrian war and the European refugee crisis it triggered. The men, who were the organizers of a trafficking ring, were captured by Turkey security forces this week in the southern province of Adana and sentenced on Friday, according to state news agency Andalou. They were on the run after fleeing during their trial. #Turkskillers #Turkey

Food delivery apps & restaurants in the UAE have taken further measures to ensure the public safety during the #coronavirus outbreak by introducing contactless deliveries. The new safe delivery methods means that customers have the option of selecting contactless delivery when they order online, leaving instructions for where want the order to be placed, and selecting pre-payment and pre-tipping options to minimize hand-to-hand contact. A circular issued by the Health and Safety Department of #Dubai Municipality urged food establishments to follow the mandatory requirements. Uber eats has announced that it will allow customer to request contactless delivery. 

NUMBER OF VICTIMS (AS OF MARCH 16, 2020): PROVINCE DEATH TOLL LAST UPDATED Tehran 750 16-Mar-20 Qom >700 14-Mar-20 Gilan 681 16-Mar-20 Isfahan 450 14-Mar-20 Khorassan Razavi 457 16-Mar-20 Mazandaran  494 16-Mar-20 Golestan  343 15-Mar-20 Alborz 230 12-Mar-20 Kurdistan 151 13-Mar-20 Khuzestan 170 15-Mar-20 East Azerbaijan 150 16-Mar-20 Lorestan  138 14-Mar-20 Qazvin 121 14-Mar-20 Ilam 120 16-Mar-20 Kermanshah 110 11-Mar-20 Fars 106 11-Mar-20 Markazi 91 11-Mar-20 Yazd  80 16-Mar-20 Sistan and Baluchestan  48 14-Mar-20 Hamedan 44 15-Mar-20 Ardabil 42 15-Mar-20 Zanjan  32 11-Mar-20 Kerman 32 14-Mar-20 West Azerbaijan 15 12-Mar-20 Semnan 15 12-Mar-20 Hormozgan 10 12-Mar-20 North Khorasan 10 12-Mar-20 Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari 7 12-Mar-20 IRAN, THE NEW SOURCE OF THE PANDEMIC   The current COVID-19 crisis in Iran is not limited to the Iranian people; Iran has become the epicenter of the spre...

Iran has been accused of lying about the number of its coronavirus cases, The mullahs knew that the virus was in Iran but covered it up and did not make any announcements to warn the people. They have been lying about the escalating threat of the coronavirus, COVID-19, which has spread to all 31 of Iran's provinces. The mullahs are claiming that fewer than 50 people have died and only 500 have contracted the disease. In fact, based on reports from inside Iran, resistance units of the main opposition MEK announced Tuesday that the number of deaths due to coronavirus is over 20 times that number, exceeding 1,200. These clumsy attempts at cover-up and deception are aimed at hiding the fact that the mullahs' regime failed to take any effective preventive measures to deal with the spread of the virus, including the quarantine of cities where the virus was raging. Until only a few days ago, it had also refused to halt flights to China. The IRGC's Mahan Air flights continued...

Government-backed loans worth £330bn and a three-month mortgage holiday have been announced by the chancellor as part of "unprecedented" measures to help businesses and families during the #CoronavirusOutbreak. Government-backed loans worth £330bn and a three-month mortgage holiday have been announced by the chancellor as part of "unprecedented" measures to help businesses and families during the #CoronavirusOutbreak . pic.twitter.com/HlvgZcp9RA — English Daily (@EnglishDaily) March 17, 2020

The brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi has been found guilty of murdering 22 people. Hashem Abedi had denied helping to plan the "sudden and lethal" blast which killed or injured "nearly 1,000". Prosecutors said Hashem was "jointly responsible" with his brother for the attack on 22 May 2017. The Manchester-born siblings "stood shoulder to shoulder" in the plot, with younger sibling Hashem "just as guilty of murder" as the bomber himself, the court heard. Hashem, was also found guilty of one count of attempted murder, encompassing the remaining injured, and conspiring to cause explosions. He was not in court for the unanimous verdicts after he dismissed his legal team last week and decided to take no further part in the trial.

Migrant workers, asylum seekers, stateless people, and women in Qatar remained susceptible to abuse in 2019 despite new laws and regulations aimed at better protecting human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020 . Qatar has also turned away asylum seekers, despite a 2018 refugee asylum law, and entire families arbitrarily made stateless starting in 1996 have remained deprived of key human rights with no clear avenues for reclaiming their revoked citizenship. Stateless members of the Ghufran clan, whose Qatari citizenship authorities arbitrarily withdrew more than a decade ago, remained deprived of their rights to work, obtain health care, receive an education, marry, start a family, and own property, as well as their freedom of movement. In 2019, Qatar made no commitments to rectify their status. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/14/qatar-reform-efforts-fail-remedy-rights-abuses

Supermarkets are urging shoppers not to buy more than they need amid concern over coronavirus-linked stockpiling. In a joint letter, UK retailers have reminded customers to be considerate in their shopping, so that others are not left without much-needed items. "There is enough for everyone if we all work together," it adds. "We understand your concerns but buying more than is needed can sometimes mean that others will be left without," the letter reads.

Wayne Rooney has slammed the UK Government over their treatment of the coronavirus pandemic in his Sunday Times column. He claimed Brits have been "treated like guinea pigs" & footballers have been treated appallingly throughout the crisis. He reserved special criticism for Prime Minister who "dodged" important questions, including those regarding sport and school closures. "Our worry was not ourselves — we’re strong enough to get over it — but our families, our friends, everyone we come into contact with. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-shouldnt-have-been-treated-like-guinea-pigs-over-coronavirus-lives-were-at-risk-pbr20znfn

Abdurehim Imin Parach, an ethnic Uighur was arrested by two Turkish plainclothes policemen in a restaurant, the police didn't say why he is been arrested. He landed in Turkey more than five years ago after fleeing his home in China's Xinjiang region. "At the police station they tried to get me to sign a statement saying I was a terrorist. They beat me, but I wouldn't sign it. Then they sent me to a deportation center." It was a cold, dark building hundreds of miles away from Istanbul. Parach says he met at least 20 other Uighurs there, all expecting to be deported. Then, after three months, he was released without explanation. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/800118582/i-thought-it-would-be-safe-uighurs-in-turkey-now-fear-china-s-long-arm

Saudi Arabia has confirmed Iran’s support for terrorist groups in Yemen and Lebanon has deprived its citizens of their right to development and the rights of citizens of those countries to enjoy security and stability. During a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday in Geneva, the third secretary of Saudi Arabia's permanent delegation to the UN Mohammed bin Essam Khashan called on Tehran to comply with the international treaties and covenants to which it has signed up. He also urged it to focus on the development of Iran and providing better lives to its citizens Khashan said Iran needs to halt its interventions that are leading to human rights violations in neighboring countries.

A senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been infected with the coronavirus after he had contacts with many patients in the past few weeks. "Ali Akbar Velayati, who also is the head of Tehran's Masih Daneshvari hospital, had contacts with many coronavirus patients in the past few weeks. He has been infected and is under quarantine now," the semi-official Fars news agency said. Iran is the most infected country in the Middle East with at least 10,000 cases. Iran recorded its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus on Wednesday with 63 confirmed deaths. Senior Iranian officials, including vice presidents, have contracted the virus.

The Premier League and EFL have postponed all fixtures until April 4 and 3 respectively at the earliest due to the threat of the coronavirus. The Football Association has also postponed England's international friendly matches against Italy and Denmark, scheduled for March 27 and 31 respectively, while the FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship fixtures have also been postponed. The measure to postpone Premier League football was agreed at an "emergency club meeting" on Friday and in light of Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta and Chelsea midfielder Callum Hodson-Odoi confirming they had tested positive for the virus. The news was confirmed in a collective statement: "The FA, Premier League, EFL and Barclays FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship have collectively agreed to postpone the professional game in England until 3 April at the earliest. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12040/11956776/coronavirus-premier-leagu...

Turkey decided in January on a resolution to send troops to Libya to support the Government of National Accord, led by Fayez Al Sarraj, in its fight against Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army. Since then, Ankara has sent between 3,000 and 4,000 Syrian proxies to Tripoli. Every week more flights carrying fighters take off from Gaziantep. Adnan, 40, an officer from Al Hamza brigade, left Turkey on January 10 with 30 of his men. He says others joined him later. Mansur continues to send reinforcements. "We were brought to Turkey one evening via the Kilis border crossing," said Adnan, who is from Homs. "Turkish military buses took us to Gaziantep and from there we boarded a commercial flight. There were even flight attendants and meal trays,” he says. MIT allegedly organized several meetings of this type with tribal or military leaders to mobilize an army of mercenaries. The recruitment campaign has met with a mixed reaction among the pro-T...

Syria Militias backed by Turkey are fighting in Libya alongside military trainers dispatched by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey has sent dozens of military training personnel after the two countries signed a series of deals last year. The militias in Libya sponsored by Turkey take home $2,000 a month, they also receive $3,300 for an injury and $10,000 and a house for their family if they are killed. Reportedly, between 20 and 30 Syrian fighters have been killed since December.

Two more people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total to eight. A patient aged in their 70s, who had underlying health conditions, died in Dudley in the West Midlands after contracting COVID-19, the prevalent strain of coronavirus. It comes as the number of people with coronavirus in the UK has risen to 460 after a further 87 tested positive for the disease in the last 24 hours. The figure is the biggest daily increase so far in coronavirus cases in the UK.

A British soldier and two US troops have been killed and 12 coalition personnel injured in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq. Britain has condemned the attack as "cowardly and retrograde". The death marks the first time a British soldier has been killed since the UK launched its operation against ISIS alongside allies in 2014. Boris Johnson expressed his "deep sadness" at the death. The serviceperson's family has been informed. "My thoughts go out to their loved ones at this extremely difficult time," the prime minister said in a statement. "We will continue to stay in close contact with our coalition partners to establish exactly what happened."

The number of reported cases of #coronavirus in Qatar has jumped by 238 in one day, according to the country' health ministry, up from just 24 before. The number of those infected in the small Gulf emirate now stands at 262, the ministry said on Wednesday.

Nine labourers on FIFA World Cup 2022 projects died in the past year, organizers on said Wednesday, none of the deaths were a result of accidents at tournament projects. The checks were done following criticism by human rights groups of #Qatar’s past labour practices. Most of Qatar’s 2.75 million residents, 90 percent of whom are foreigners, are from poor developing countries working on projects linked to the 2022 World Cup. Of that number only around 26,000 are directly employed on SC projects. #Qatar #HumanRightsViolations #HumanRights

A group of men from narrowly escaped freezing to death on the border between Iran and Turkey. The men were rescued by a local taxi driver after being robbed and pushed back to Iran by the Turkish authorities. Kacan a member of the Van Bar Association, which provides free legal aid to asylum seekers and refugees as well as monitoring migrant border crossings in Van and neighboring provinces. Kacan said the men were still being treated in hospital. The doctors had warned that their fingers, black with frostbite, may need to be amputated.

A video has emerged of #Turkish police beating and forcing illegal migrants to cross the Greek border at gunpoint. A police officer was telling the illegal migrants (including women & children) to “get off the bus. You are going to the other side.”

Boris Johnson is facing his first Commons rebellion over Huawei's role in the UK's 5G mobile internet network. A number of senior Conservatives are set to back an amendment that would end the Chinese firm's participation in the project by the start of 2023. Tory critics say Huawei is an arm of the Chinese state and risk to UK security - claims the firm rejects. The USA, which has banned Huawei from its own telecoms networks, has been highly critical of the UK's decision, urging it to rethink its plans.

According to Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, Iran has reported 6,566 COVID-19 cases or about one in every 12,000 people in its population. The first case appeared on February 19. Right now Iran is third behind China (80,695) and South Korea (7,314), and just ahead of Italy (5,883). But the official Iranian number is almost certainly an undercount, probably due to the Iranian government’s attempt to hide a desperate situation for which it is partially responsible. The first sign of dishonesty came on February 28, when Masoumeh Ebtekar, one of the country’s vice presidents, announced that she had the virus, Ebtekar is one of the most famous politicians in the country. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/irans-coronavirus-problem-lot-worse-it-seems/607663/

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei canceled his speech for Persian new year to prevent further infections of coronavirus. Iran’s health ministry on Monday announced a total of 7,161 infections and 237 deaths from coronavirus, one of the highest death rates. "Based on the latest statistics that have been compiled, there have been an additional 835 definite new infections. Unfortunately, we have 11 new deaths," he told state TV. The virus earlier killed lawmaker Hadi Khosroshahi, Iran’s former ambassador to the Vatican. Among other officials who are infected are Vice President Masumeh Ebtekar and Iraj Harirchi, the head of an Iranian government task force on the coronavirus who tried to downplay the virus before falling ill.

A fifth person has died in the UK after contracting coronavirus. The victim was in their 70s and had underlying health conditions. They had tested positive for COVID-19 - the disease caused by coronavirus - and passed away in St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, south London. The number of confirmed infections in the UK has risen by 46 to 319 over the last 24 hours, according to the latest government figures. 

More than 300 complaints that rapper Dave's performance at the Brit Awards was racist against white people have been rejected by the UK media watchdog. Ofcom received 309 complaints about the song Black, which the London musician performed at last month's ceremony. But the watchdog said it was "likely to be within most viewers' expectations of this well-established awards ceremony". The track's lyrics include references to "working twice as hard as the people you know you're better than".

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have made their last public appearance as working members of the Royal Family. Prince Harry and Meghan joined the Queen and other senior royals at the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey on Monday afternoon. The couple have been carrying out a series of public appearances in the UK before stepping back as working royals. From 31 March, they will stop using their HRH titles and receiving public money. The duke and duchess joined the Queen - who is head of the Commonwealth - the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the central London church. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51800196

Libya's parliament voted unanimously against Turkey intervention, days after Turkish legislators approved a troop deployment to Libya. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of GNA, signed the two controversial deals at a meeting in Istanbul. The Tobruk-based House of Representatives also voted unanimously to cut relations with Turkey and refer al-Sarraj for prosecution on a charge of "high treason" because he sought a foreign power's military help, the House's spokesman Abdullah Bleihaq told dpa news agency.

United State Of America President, Donald Trump warns #Turkey against military 'interference' in Libya. Trump had told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a call "that foreign interference is complicating the situation in Libya," White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was booed as he visited a #flood-hit area of Worcestershire, He was called a "traitor". He arrived on the banks of the River Severn in Bewdley on Sunday and was taken to view the still-erected flood defenses by Environment Agency staff. Opposition parties criticized Mr. Johnson for not visiting affected communities early. When he heard homes had been overwhelmed by as much as 2ft of water, the PM said he was "so sorry to hear it".

Leeds Football Club has moved its women's and academy teams to new training facilities due to the "increased threat" posed by #coronavirus. The decision was been taken to reduce any risk of coming into contact with anyone who has contracted the virus. "Following the increased threat posed by COVID-19, we have taken the decision to temporarily move our Women's side, as well as our Academy teams, to new facilities to train at with immediate effect," a club statement said. "We believe the fact that the facility is shared with our first team leaves us with little choice but to take this action, to protect Marcelo Bielsa's squad from any risk of coming into contact with anyone who has contracted the virus.