WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL NEWS

WHO DECLARE EBOLA A GLOBAL EMERGENCY-

World health organization should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has now developed to Uganda, specialists said as a WHO advisory panel met on Friday. The WHO said on Thursday, two people had died in Uganda having arrived with the disease from Congo. A panel of 13 independent medical experts on the WHO Emergency Committee was meeting from midday to evaluate the latest evidence and whether the epidemic constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Such a conclusion would lead to boosting funding, public health measures and resources, and could include advice on trade and travel, aid groups and academic experts. In the past decade WHO has declared four emergencies. The DRC'S Ebola epidemic is considered to be the second worst worldwide after the West Africa Ebola outbreak in 2014-16. Experts say while the risk at the international level remains low, declaring the matter an emergency would increase international political support and lead to the release of more resources with which to tackle the outbreak.

US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP BLAMES IRAN FOR ATTACK ON TWO TANKERS-

Trump blamed Iran on Friday attacks on two oil tankers at the arrival to the Gulf despite Tehran's contradiction,  stoking fears of a conflict in the vital oil shipping route. Iran has abandoned earlier US charges that it was behind Thursday attacks that paralyzed two tankers. It has earlier suggested it could choke the Strait of Hormuz, the main route out for Middle Eastern oil if its own exports stood still. Asked how he planned to the inscription  Tehran and prevent any further event. Trump said that we are going to see and any move to close the Strait of Hormuz would not last long. The US military dispatched a video on Thursday which showed about Iran Revolutionary Guards were behind the blasts that bang the Norwegian owned  Front Altair and the Japanese owned Kokuka Courageous in the Gulf of Oman, at the mouth of the Gulf. Iran said the video demonstrate nothing and it was being constructed into a scapegoat. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said that these claims are alarming. 

Iran has blamed the United States and its regional allies such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE of "warmongering" by making the allegations against it. The European Union, China, and others have called for restraint from all sides. In a notable signal that closes the US allies are wary of Washington's position, Germany said the US video was not sufficient to apportion blame for Thursday's attack. Britain said it took the matter"extremely seriously" and if Iran was involved, "it is a deeply unwise escalation.

HONG KONG CONFLICT CONTINUES EXTRADITION BILL-

The opposition of legislation in Hong Kong that would permit criminal suspects to be deported to mainland China are planning more objection and labor strikes in an attempt to occlude the move, which they say put in danger the territory's judicial independence and Western-style freedoms. The government plans to present the amendments to the Hong Kong Legislative Council on Wednesday, notwithstanding a weekend objection that brought hundreds of people into the streets in the territory largest political exhibition in more than a decade. The legislation has to mutate a lightning rod for worry about Beijing increasing control over the erstwhile British colony, which had been sworn it would keep hold of its own legal and social institutions for 50 years after it's come back to Chinese rule in 1997. Jimmy Sham, a deputation of the Civil Human Rights Front that organized Sunday's protest, said his group is constructed to keep fighting to feat the legislation. Chief Executive Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam, has constantly defended the legislation as required to close legal loopholes with other countries and territories. Andrew Leung, the legislature president has scheduled a vote on June 20. Police closed off streets neighboring the legislature and government headquarters among online calls for protesters to assemble and show their opposition. Local media reports said thousands of additional officers were being deployed to keep order. Some businesses declared plans to close Wednesday and there were dispersed reports of students planning to boycott classes. Sunday protest was extended seen as reflecting growing anxiety about relations with the Communist Part ruled mainland, whose leader, Xi Jinping, has said he has zero forbearance for those demanding greater self-rule for  Hong Kong.

INDIAN ORIGIN APPROVED AS BRITISH IN WINDRUSH SCHEME-

Sajid Javid UK Home Secretary has supplied another personal apology for the Windrush scandal, involving migrants being wrongly contradicted their British citizenship rights, as a brand new official update divulged that hundreds more Indians were grabbed up in the row. The Windrush generation refers to citizens of former British colonies who appeared before 1973 when the rights of such Commonwealth citizens to reside and work in Britain were considerably diminished. According to the current update by the UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid on Monday, a total of 737 Indians have been able to attest their condition in the wake of the scandal demanding Commonwealth nationals wrongly contradict their citizenship rights in Britain. A bulk of them had to appear in the UK before 1973 when the immigration rules had changed, while the others either arrived later or were a family member of the so-called Windrush generation. Sajid Javid said I have personally regret to those identified through this review and I will make sure they receive support and entry to the compensation scheme. The UK home office had set up a Windrush Taskforce in April 2018 to deal with a backlog of thousands of such cases, with Javid providing regular updates to the Parliament Home Affairs Select Home Affair Select Committee Chair, Yvette Cooper, on the progress of the scheme.