News website faces police probe in Singapore for boosting Facebook posts during elections · Global Voices

Groups criticize vaguely worded provisions in the election law A template of an online postcard expressing support to New Naratif. Source: New Naratif The Singapore Elections Department, which is under the Prime Minister’s Office, has filed a police report against independent news website New Naratif for publishing paid advertisements duringContinue Reading

Liverpool’s in-form Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating.© AFP Liverpool’s in-form Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating, the club said Friday. “Sadio Mane has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently self-isolating according to the necessary guidelines,” LiverpoolContinue Reading

Artists from around the world bid farewell to the creator of Mafalda · Global Voices

Mafalda is an iconic Spanish-language comic strip character Quino visits an exhibition for the 50-year anniversary of Mafalda in September 2014. Photo by Argentina’s Ministry of Culture/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) On September 30, 88-year-old award winning Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón passed away. He is better known as Quino, the creatorContinue Reading

A man in hospital on a ventilator

With the US president, Donald Trump, testing positive for coronavirus, speculation has begun regarding possible outcomes. The reality is, it’s impossible to say for certain what will happen to an individual once they’ve contracted COVID. Some people may have no symptoms at all, while others may have far worse outcomes.Continue Reading