Saturday,  Sept.  5th, 2020

Labor Day Weekend

A study shows that the Gam-COVID-Vac, Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine, has produced an antibody response with no serious side effects in a small trial. (Reuters)

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19. (Reuters)

The Big Basin Redwoods State Park is expected to close for a year due to damage caused by the CZU Lightning Complex fires. (USA Today)

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit against his life imprisonment sentence handed down by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in July 2019. Guzmán’s lawyer claims that his maximum-security isolation at the Metropolitan Correctional Center following his extradition to the United States in January 2017 made him heavily unaware about his case and limited his ability to participate in his defense. (AFP via NDTV)

Protests over a fatal police encounter in Rochester, New York began peacefully but ended with authorities using tear gas and pepper balls following incidents of vandalism and violence. It was the third straight night of protests after video was released earlier in the week showing Rochester Police Department officers holding Daniel Prude on the ground with a spit sock on his head in March. Prude stopped breathing and was declared brain dead at a hospital. (CNN)

Malaysian Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof announces that Uyghur refugees in the country will not be extradited back to China, but permitted to use Malaysia as a safe passage to a third country. (Reuters)

 

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