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Youtuber Jake Paul is facing criticism from a California mayor after footage emerged of the internet star throwing a party at his mansion this weekend.

Calabasas Mayor Alicia Weintraub told FOX 11, external: "It wasn't just myself who was outraged, it was everyone who saw the video."

The mayor said she received a number of complaints from residents who saw the video of the party. The clips on social media show a number of young people partying in the residence, apparently following no social distancing protocols and not wearing masks.

"It's just a big, huge disregard for everything that everybody is trying to do to get things back to functioning," Weintraub said.

The mayor says she will work with the local sheriff to enforce a zero-tolerance policy for such parties.

"Something like this will not happen again."

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India has reported a trade surplus in June, its first in more than 18 years, after the coronavirus pandemic curtailed demand for imports to the country.

Merchandise exports contracted 12.4% while imports dipped 47.6%, resulting in a marginal trade surplus of $790m (£624m), data released by India’s commerce ministry showed on Wednesday.

A trade surplus happens when a country’s export of goods and services is greater than its import over a certain time period.

The last time India posted a trade surplus was in January 2002, when the difference between imports and exports was $10m, data from financial firm Refinitiv showed.

This year's June surplus has been attributed to a steep fall in the import of crude oil, gold and other industrial products to India.

On Tuesday the chief economist for IHS Markit, Rajiv Biswas, told CNBC the April-June period was “likely to show a current account surplus for all the wrong reasons, as the lockdown of the Indian economy resulted in a steep drop in imports”.

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As Americans have stocked up on canned tuna amid the Covid-19 pandemic, producers are saying it's becoming difficult to keep up with the demand.

In the US, where many are facing economic hardship due to the pandemic, it is one of the cheapest proteins available, with cans costing around $1 (£0.79) each.

Bumble Bee Foods reported its tuna sales jumped 100% in March and April, according to the Wall Street Journal, external, and producers say sales have continued to remain high. The Journal reports that average wholesale tuna prices are up 41% compared to last year, though retail prices have stayed around the same.

Suppliers are struggling to keep the cans coming amid supply chain issues due to the pandemic, like border controls.

Most of the world's tuna comes from nations in the Pacific Ocean, and must then be shipped to processing plants and canning plants elsewhere before it ends up in US stores.

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A significant number of children are missing out on life-saving vaccines for the first time in nearly 30 years due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations warns.

The UN identified a "substantial drop" in the immunisation of children against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough in the first four months of 2020.

The suffering and death caused to children contracting these diseases could be far greater than Covid-19 itself, suggests the head of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

He said these vaccines are one of the most powerful tools in the history of public health.

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Failures to address the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on women could cost the global economy $5tn (£4tn) by 2030, Melinda Gates has warned in a paper for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, external.

She writes that estimates indicate women's jobs are 1.8 times more likely than men's to be cut in recessions caused by the pandemic.

At the same time the burden of childcare and supporting other family members is falling largely onto women, she says. School closures around the world risks women leaving work too.

She also advises governments to fix existing issues that cause gender inequality when designing policies to address the fallout from the pandemic.

Could the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer's latest tweet be a cheeky dig at one of his cabinet colleagues?

Earlier this week, senior minister Michael Gove was pictured leaving sandwich shop Pret a Manger without a mask, having earlier called it "basic good manners" to wear one.

Now today, we've got Chancellor Rishi Sunak, also in Pret, with his face well-covered. Coincidence? We may never know...

Downing Street has also alluded to the issue; suggesting that face coverings would not have to be worn when buying takeaway food in England.

The prime minister's official spokesman said his understanding is that you wouldn't need to wear a face covering if you went in, "for example, to a sandwich shop in order to get a takeaway".

"It is mandatory... we are talking about supermarkets and other shops, rather than food shops."

The UK government says people with medical conditions or disabilities that mean they cannot wear a face covering will not have to do so.

We do not yet have the precise wording of the rules for shops. However, face coverings have been compulsory on public transport in England since 15 June and the rules , externalfor that are pretty broad.

Anyone who cannot wear a covering "because of any physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability", or who would experience "severe distress" from doing so, is exempt.

Children under 11 are also exempt in England.

Some disability charities are producing badges or cards for people to carry with them signalling they are exempt. It's thought unlikely the government will produce its own cards, as this didn't happen when coverings became compulsory on public transport.

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Workers at Tesla have expressed concerns over their safety after reports that more than 100 employees at a plant in California have tested positive for Covid-19.

An industry blog reported that some 1,500 employees have possibly been exposed to the virus.

Staff say their concerns have been ignored and that social distancing and hygiene rules are not being followed.

"I feel abandoned, we all feel abandoned," Tesla employee Branton Phillips told CBS News, external. “One day somebody is sick and we know that - next day the three to four guys that worked around him are also gone and we’re not told anything."

Staff say the company told them they could stay home if they felt ill or uncomfortable, but Phillips told CBS that is not a feasible option for many workers.

The Fremont plant employs around 10,000 people. Tesla has not commented on this matter to local media.

The plant was at first forced to shut down amid California's lockdown orders, but Tesla chief Elon Musk fought with county officials to reopen it in May.

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MPs have been sharing their thoughts on the prime minister's announcement a little earlier that an independent inquiry will be held into the coronavirus outbreak "in the future".

Conservative MP Laura Trott said the government has consistently said it wanted to look back and learn but insisted that now was the moment to prepare for a possible second wave, not discuss the inquiry.

Asked about a possible remit and scale, she said a full-scale inquiry needed careful consideration, and would not be drawn further.

Justin Madders, Labour's shadow health minister, said he expected it to involve witnesses taking the oath and facing questions from barristers.

An inquiry was "really important" for those thousands of people in the country who have lost loved ones who will "rightly want to know if those deaths could have been avoided", he said.

Asked whether an inquiry should include some sort of moment of atonement so relatives could feel justice has been done, Kirsten Oswald, deputy leader of the SNP, said relatives were important but the focus has be on how to move forward responsibly and look at how to deal with pandemics in the future.

An exclusive, weeks-long BBC investigation inside filthy hospitals in South Africa has exposed an extraordinary array of systemic failures showing how exhausted doctors and nurses are overwhelmed with Covid-19 patients and a health service near collapse.

With key staff on strike or sick with coronavirus in the Eastern Cape province, nurses are forced to act as cleaners, surgeons are washing their own hospital laundry and there are alarming reports of unborn babies dying in overcrowded and understaffed maternity wards.

As doctors, unions and management fight over scarce resources, one senior doctor described the situation as "an epic failure of a deeply corrupt system", while another spoke of "institutional burn-out… a sense of chronic exploitation, the department of health essentially bankrupt, and a system on its knees with no strategic management".

The revelations come just as South Africa - which held the coronavirus back for months with an early, tough, and economically devastating lockdown - now sees infection rates soar nationwide, prompting President Cyril Ramaphosa to warn that "the storm is upon us".

• Read the full investigation here.

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Seventeen-year-old women are the group most likely to have been put on furlough during the pandemic, according to official data.

About 60% of jobs done by women of this age had wages paid by the state, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said.

Young men of the same age were also more likely than not to have been furloughed, with 58% affected.

Men in their 40s and women aged between 41 and 58 were least likely to have been put on the scheme.

In all, more than nine million workers who are unable to do their job because of the outbreak have had their wages paid by the government.

The scheme was designed to help put people on leave because of the outbreak, and prevent mass redundancies. Firms start paying towards the scheme from August and it will close in October.

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US hospitals have been ordered to report Covid-19 patient data to the federal health agency in Washington instead of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as of 15 July, US media report.

The CDC, a leading public health institute, has traditionally handled the US pandemic response. Health experts have expressed concerns that data will be politicised, become less transparent and possibly affect the work of researchers and modelers.

According to the New York Times, external, which first reported the Trump administration's new instructions, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) database that will now take in this data is not accessible to the public.

HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that the CDC's system was inadequate and had a week lag in reporting data.

"The new, faster and complete data system is what our nation needs to defeat the coronavirus, and the CDC, an operating division of HHS, will certainly participate in this streamlined all-of-government response. They will simply no longer control it."

The change follows rising tensions between the White House and public health experts.

• White House targets US disease chief Dr Anthony Fauci

On Tuesday, four former CDC directors criticised Trump's "tragic indictment" of CDC efforts in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, external, accusing the president of "sowing confusion and mistrust at a time when the American people need leadership, expertise and clarity".

Earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that there will be "an independent inquiry into what happened" during the UK coronavirus pandemic, but that now is not the time.

He was responding to a call from acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who reminded Johnson that back in 2003 he voted for an independent inquiry into the Iraq War "just months" after it started.

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Credit card spending dropped by nearly half at the start of the UK lockdown as people played safe with their finances and shunned big purchases.

A total of £8.7bn was spent on credit cards in the first full month of lockdown in April, half the level of April last year, UK Finance said.

The banking trade body said this was the lowest level of spending seen since the last economic downturn.

The cancellation of holiday plans is one likely reason for the fall.

And many people uncertain about the coronavirus effect on their jobs and finances would have put off buying big household items, UK Finance suggested.

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Spain has been keen to invite holiday-makers back to the hard-hit country where tourism is a key industry.

But the bad behaviour of visitors to popular island Majorca has led to the Balearic Ministry for Tourism ordering bars to close in parts of Magaluf, reports the Majorca Daily Bulletin. , external

The area is popular with British and German tourists in particular.

Videos of drunk visitors flouting coronavirus guidelines were shared over the weekend.

Elsewhere in Spain, the Catalonia region has recorded a jump in coronavirus cases after a strict lockdown was announced on Monday. The health department announced a further 938 infections, but with the caveat that they usually report three days of data at a time, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais., external

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New York City is at risk of losing its boxing legacy forever after coronavirus forced many gyms to close, warn the city's fighters.

Our colleague Ben Wyatt spoke to those affected, including boxer Heather "The Heat" Hardy who spends her time trying to persuade passers-by to sign up for training sessions to supplement her income.

Bruce Silverglade, the former president of amateur boxing in New York and owner of Gleason's for 37 years, argues that at a time of their greatest need, boxing is being discriminated against by politicians choosing to look the other way.

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• US President Donald Trump has again claimed that the wall which has been built on parts of the border with Mexico has helped stem the spread of Covid-19 cases to the United States - even though the number of cases in the US is more than 10 times that in Mexico. The two neighbours have agreed to extend a ban on non-essential travel across the land border for another month after Mexico said it was worried about the fast rise in cases on the US side
• Thousands of people gathered in La Paz in Bolivia on Tuesday in one of the biggest anti-government protests since the pandemic started. Among those protesting in defiance of lockdown rules were teachers' unions demanding that wifi be provided without cost to children so that they can study from home, while others slammed the government's handling of the pandemic. The interim president and at least six ministers have all tested positive for Covid and are currently self-isolating
• A businessman who met with Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro just days before the latter announced he had Covid-19, has now tested positive for coronavirus. Paulo Skaf, who leads the São Paulo Federation of Industries, has been taken to hospital. He developed a fever after having lunch with Bolsonaro on 3 July. Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed the risks posed by the virus, said on Tuesday that he continued to feel fine

It’s been seven days since there have been any deaths after a positive test for coronavirus in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.

No deaths were registered in the last 24 hours meaning total deaths remain at 2,490.

This is lower than the 4,187 deaths confirmed by National Records of Scotland earlier, as that figure includes all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.

Speaking at the Scottish government's coronavirus briefing, the first minister added there have been six days since 26 June when no-one with a confirmed virus case was admitted to hospital.

Captain Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British veteran who stunned the world when he raised £32m ($40m) for National Health Service charities, will receive his knighthood in a personal ceremony with the Queen.

The event will take place on Friday at Windsor Castle.

Sir Tom undertook laps of his garden to raise money during the height of the UK's coronavirus epidemic.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson nominated the captain for knighthood in May.

"I could never have imagined this would happen to me," Captain Moore tweeted about the news.

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been taking questions from MPs on the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Here's a quick roundup of the key points from today's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs):

• The prime minister pledged that his government "will do absolutely everything in our power to prevent a second spike” of coronavirus cases after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asked him what he would like to say to the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Group
• Johnson said there will be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic in the future, but not now, in response to a call from acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Edward Davey
• The PM said the government's track and trace system has been working at an "unprecedented scale". Sir Keir said capacity needed to be "significantly expanded" to cope with an expected winter spike of coronavirus cases and that the proportion of people being contacted by tracers has "gone down" every week
• Sir Keir said the government's failure to provide "sector-specific" support could cost thousands of jobs, and that more targeted actions could have helped prevent jobs losses announced in the aviation sector. The PM replied that No 10 has done a "huge amount" to support the industry