Berita antarabangsa pilihan sepanjang hari ini

ANTARA pelbagai berita antarabangsa yang disiarkan di Astro AWANI, berikut adalah antara yang paling menjadi tumpuan sepanjang hari ini, Isnin, 19 Oktober 2020.

1) COVID-19: Angka korban global lepasi angka 1.11 juta

ANGKA korban akibat COVID-19 terus meningkat.

Statistik Johns Hopkins University menunjukkan jumlah kumulatif kematian global sudah melebihi 1.11 juta kes.

2) COVID-19: Kes positif global hampiri angka 40 juta

JUMLAH kumulatif kes positif global COVID-19 kini menghampiri angka 40 juta.

Ini berikutan lebih ratusan ribu jangkitan baharu direkodkan dalam tempoh 24 jam.

3) Thailand tidak bercadang perluas kawasan darurat

Thailand tidak bercadang untuk memperluaskan kawasan darurat meskipun protes mega mendesak Perdana Menteri, Paryuth Chan-ocha meletak jawatan sedang berlangsung di seluruh negara.

Polis bagaimanapun sedang berusaha untuk mengawal keadaan dan menyuraikan protes.

4) Polis Thailand siasat empat media berhubung liputan tunjuk perasaan di Bangkok

Polis Thailand mengarahkan agar siasatan dilakukan ke atas empat media berhubung laporan mengenai tunjuk perasaan antikerajaan di Bangkok minggu lepas.

Timbalan jurucakap Polis Kolonel Kissana Phathanacharoen berkata pasukan keselamatan itu telah meminta Suruhanjaya Penyiaran dan Telekomunikasi Kebangsaan (NBTC) serta Kementerian Ekonomi Digital dan Masyarakat Thailand untuk mengeluarkan kandungan empat media dan laman Facebook sebuah kumpulan tunjuk perasaan yang didakwa melanggar perintah darurat.

5) Hungarian restaurant reinvents the wheel for social distancing

Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment.

Costes owner Karoly Gerendai said that turnover at one of his reopened restaurants is down to about a tenth of pre-lockdown levels, forcing him to look for new ways to do business.

6) New Zealand's next parliament is set to be the most diverse ever

New Zealand's next parliament is set to be the most inclusive ever, with several people of colour, members from the rainbow communities and a high number of women.

The ruling Labour Party was handed a resounding mandate in the election over the weekend, as voters rewarded Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her decisive response to COVID-19.

7) Vietnam troops find more bodies after latest deadly landslide

Vietnamese soldiers with heavy machinery and rescue dogs searched on Monday for the last remaining troops buried under a mudslide, after recovering 18 bodies from the latest in a week of deadly landslides caused by unrelenting rains.

Floods and mudslides during October have killed at least 93 people in central Vietnam and left 30 missing, among those four military, which has lost 29 personnel to the adverse weather, in what could be its highest number of peace-time casualties. Four bodies were found on Monday.

8) Singapore's world-first face scan plan sparks privacy fears

Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse.

From next year, millions of people living in the city-state will be able to access government agencies, banking services and other amenities with a quick face scan.