World News Hits on Saturday

SEENews reviews the most dominating headlines of the daily world news.

White House aides pided over Trump coronavirus visibility

White House officials are split over what role President Donald Trump should have in responding to the record-breaking numbers of new coronavirus cases, with some advisers urging him to stay on the sidelines while others warn he does so at his own political peril.(NBC News)

As lockdown loosens, more black men are stabbed in London. But Black Lives Matter has nothing to say

Despite a huge public profile and ongoing media attention, BLM fails to identify a role for itself in combating the appalling number of deaths of young black males in London from incidents of knife crime. What’s its purpose then? (Russia Today)

Four million people in Catalonia asked to 'stay at home' amid coronavirus surge

Catalonia’s regional government has asked millions of people to “stay at home” as the area experienced a resurgence in coronavirus cases. (Euronews)

Civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis dead at 80

John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80. (CNN News)

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson statement fact-checked

Boris Johnson: "We have substantially increased the pipeline of personal protective equipment [PPE] for the NHS and social care constituting over 30 billion items of PPE over the course of the pandemic". (BBC News)

Firemen battle blaze at Nantes cathedral in western France

Firemen were battling a fire that broke out early on Saturday morning inside the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, the local fire service said on Twitter. (Reuters)

U.S. State Department releases cable that launched claims that coronavirus escaped from Chinese lab

The full cable does not strengthen the claim that an accident at the lab allowed the virus to escape, nor does it exclude the possibility. However, skepticism of the accident theory has increased in the scientific community. (The Washington Post)

U.S. Virus Cases Hit Another Daily Record as State GOP Officials Target Mask Orders

Officials in some states prepared for more remote instruction in the coming school year as coronavirus infections continue to rise. Measures aimed at slowing the pandemic are facing political resistance. (The Wall Street Journal)