Let's Do The News! (May 15, 2021)

 

Your daily round-up of today's news:

- An Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Gaza has killed at least seven people, including a woman and four children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

- China successfully putting a spacecraft safely on Mars as the Tianwen 1 touched the planet's surface down by parachute.

- A Venezuelan court has seized the headquarters of the newspaper "El Nacional" after it failed to pay a 13 million dollar defamation reward to the Vice President of the ruling Socialist Party.

- A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has ruled that the former health minister does not have to answer questions that could incriminate him. He appears before the Senate inquiry on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

- Two US cybersecurity firms said that the Russian-based group of cyber extortionists known as Darkside appeared to suffer their own hack. Darkside claimed responsibility for the cyberattack of US oil pipelines last week that caused petrol shortages.

- Japan adds Hokkaido, Okayama, and Hiroshima to their extended COVID-19 state of emergency. The three additional prefectures will be placed this Sunday.

- The 2021 NTT IndyCar Series removes the Honda Indy Toronto event from its schedule due to COVID-19.

- The Formula 1 2021 season removes the Turkish Grand Prix from its schedule while the French Grand Prix advanced to June 20 and Austria will have two races such as June 27's Styrian Grand Prix and July 4's Austrian Grand Prix.

TTFN.