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Woke don't get a joke? Ecuador's Moreno backpedals after suggesting women only report harassment by 'UGLY people' Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has apologized after claiming that women only consider unwanted sexual advances harassment if they come from unattractive men. His theory was not well received on social media. Speaking at a conference in Ecuador's second-largest city, Guayaquil, Moreno told attendees that women have subjective criteria when it comes to reporting alleged harassment. "That is to say, it is 'harassment' when it comes from an ugly person," he said. "But if the person is good looking... they usually do not think it is harassment." He also suggested that men are constantly at risk of being falsely accused of harassment by wom...

China’s Huawei tops list of global 5G smartphone suppliers Demand for 5G smartphones has been growing with shipments of 19 million units last year, the latest report by research firm Strategy Analytics shows. “Fierce vendor competition in China and heavy carrier subsidies across South Korea have been the main drivers of 5G demand,” according to the report. Other regions, like the US and Europe, are lagging behind Asia, but “we expect them to close the gap later this year.” Chinese telecom giant Huawei topped the list of suppliers, shipping 6.9 million 5G smartphones worldwide in 2019. The company captured an impressive 37 percent market share. It was followed by South Korea’s Samsung with 6.7 million 5G smartphones shipped. Two other Chinese compani...

300+ Indians brought home on board another special-purpose Wuhan flight as New Delhi confirms 2nd coronavirus case An Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan touched down in New Delhi on Sunday morning. It's the second time Indian citizens were airlifted from China since the outbreak. “The second flight from #Wuhan has just landed in #Delhi. We wish all those on board good health in the days ahead,” tweeted Vikram Misri, Indian ambassador to China, extending gratitude to Beijing for greenlighting the evacuation. It was the second time an Air India Boeing 747 has flown to the Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly outbreak to rescue stranded Indians, many of whom are medical students at a local ...

Time to juggle the groceries: Looming paper bag shortage shows you can't save the planet by banning plastic ones The plastic bag has become anathema to the effort of saving Mother Nature from humans’ toxic ways. But humans are now being blindsided by a shortage of paper bags – which have proven to be an even worse alternative. With the old-fashioned single-use plastic bags sent to an extinction rebellion fiery hell, we are being told that the only way forward is recycling, and using environmentally-friendly alternatives made of paper, cotton, polyester or other suitable materials. Seventy-four countries have banned single-use plastic bags made from low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic with varying degrees of enforcement, and 37 countries now impo...

India’s gold demand to recover from 3-year low, World Gold Council says India, the second-largest gold consumer globally, is expected to see growing demand for the precious metal this year in the range of 700-800 tons, up from 690 tons in 2019. According to a World Gold Council (WGC) report, growth could come as a result of the Indian government’s attempts to bolster consumer confidence and spending power in order to revive the economy. “We believe reforms that are going to be announced in the budget are likely to put more money in the hands of people. It will drive up consumption,” said Somasundaram PR, the managing director of WGC’s Indian operations. Also on rt.com World’s super-rich are hoarding physical gold ...

Top PM Modi’s party official says ‘entire world’ believes India the ‘only’ power to mediate & resolve US-Iran conflict Chief Minister of northern Uttar Pradesh state and prominent member of India’s PM Narendra Modi party has suggested that the world was waiting for India to step into the row between the US and Iran and reduce the tension. Speaking at the campaign rally in Rohini, to the northwest of New Delhi, on Saturday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath argued that the times when the US acted as a mediator in international disputes have long gone and it’s time for India, which has grown into a major world power, to fill the void. "Earlier, when small nations sparred over various issues, the United States would jump in,” Adityanath said.  "Now t...

Clucking hell! New outbreak of BIRD FLU sees thousands of chickens culled in coronavirus-stricken China As China grapples with the rampant Wuhan coronavirus, another sickness has broken out in the country: the deadly H5N1 bird flu. The outbreak took place at a farm near Shaoyang city, in China’s central Hunan province, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture announced on Saturday. 4,500 of the farm’s 7,850 chickens have died from the illness, and local authorities have culled nearly 20,000 birds to contain its spread. H5N1 is an avian flu virus that causes severe respiratory disease in birds, and is contagious to humans. No human victims have yet been reported, but the World Health Organization (WHO) states that more than 350 people have died from the...