Across japan there have been more than 2,600 cases excluding 712 from the diamond princess cruise ship. 82 people have died including 11 from the ship. The head of the World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic is set to cross some grim milestones as it takes a growing toll across the globe. The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week. In the next few days, we will reach one million confirmed cases and 50,000 deaths. He says he is concerned about the rapid escalation of infection. There are already more than 800,000 confirmed cases and over 40,500 deaths globally. Hes also calling on governments to ensure Vulnerable People have food and other necessities as more countries issue lockdowns. Meanwhile, china has begun releasing the number of people who have tested positive but show no symptoms. However it has not disclosed how many of these socalled silent carriers have been confirmed since the start of the outbreak. During the news conference, w. H. O. Offici
In 2008, mark served as the visiting senior lecturer of war studies at the Royal Military academy at sandhurst in the united kingdom. He is the author of eight books and he currently has two other books in the works. His presentation today is taken from his most recent work, the seventh West Virginia industry. It is coauthored. [applause] mark thank you. Before i give my presentation, i want to give you a little background about the seventh virginia infantry regiment. That is how it started out. It was recruited in the summer and fall of 1861, primarily from the North Central part of West Virginia. Let me bring up a map. Primarily from northcentral West Virginia, and also Monroe County, ohio and ring county, pennsylvania. Greene county is here, Monroe County is here. The recruiting area is basically this area, plus a little bit of Greene County and Monroe County, ohio. Their initial service was about 50 miles west of winchester, virginia. Most of their Early Service was in the lower pa
Executives from around the country to talk about our shared priorities and how we can best leverage the power of our whole federation. It is our partnership with these organizations that give the neighbor amy the region a neighbor nationwide reach. This meeting comes at an important time for the business in arizona to new york and elsewhere in between. There are growing questions about the strain and direction of our economy. Uncertainty stemming from the u. S. China trade tensions, various international hotspots, the softening Global Economy and warming warning signs are making people nervous, and when people get nervous, they said on their money. A lot of companies are sitting on the cash, resulting in the first decline in Business Investment in three years. Individual investors are doing the same thing. The Business Community is calling on leaders in washington to make smart policy choices that will over store confidence, not just undermine it. Here are three quick things that could
Under a single streamlined currency now over a dozen global firms will invest in and govern the currency including master card vodafone and as group will supposedly wall off control of the currency from facebook itself the new coin will be pegged to a basket of global currencies such as the dollar and the euro with the intent of shielding it from the wild fluctuations that are plagued big and scared off many average investors the big question will it catch on facebook is betting that the scale of its social Network Alone with 2400000000 monthly users will forge a new huge marketplace for streamline purchases and exchanges the social network is also says that libor will help to bridge the socalled banking gap giving the 1700000000 people around the world who do not have a bank account a secure alternative to cash so why a crypto currency heres how facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg 1st publicly frame the idea a few weeks ago. I believe that it should be as easy to send money to someone a
Business im. Lynn welcome thousands of delegates from around the world are end of the german city of vaughan the racing to resolve outstanding issues in implementing the Paris Climate Accord nearly 200 countries signed view agreement back in 2015 committing to limit the centurys global average temperature increase to no more than 2 degrees celsius above preindustrial levels lovemore on the issues in just a moment but 1st heres a look at how countries compare in terms of c o 2 emissions. Well 28 percent of global emissions china is the biggest offender the United States at 16 percent comes in at number 2 germany with just over 2 percent comes in 6th place but its a very different story when you look at per capita emissions here qatar comes out way on top the average person there emits over 30 tons of c o 2 each year thats north of the much as the average person in the u. S. And many times the global average of less than 5 tonnes per head no Carbon Trading the buying and selling credits