Month: July 2020

Навернулся «буревестник»! Операция “зачистка”: жителей нёнокса эвакуируют из-за «опасных» работ…

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Навернулся «буревестник»! Операция “зачистка”: жителей нёнокса эвакуируют из-за «опасных» работ…

Очень даже может быть, что упала установка пресловутого «буревестника», который в начале июня своеобразно и заблаговременно поздравил опущенного карлика пукина с обнулением сроков…
 

 
 
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Стихийный митинг: опущенный карлик пукин идёт на уступки

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Стихийный митинг: опущенный карлик пукин идёт на уступки.

Конституцию нам значит обнулили, а вот прав у граждан как не было так и нет. Ведь Светлану Прокопьеву признали виновной, назначив штраф в полмиллиона. А вот в москве вышли люди на красную площадь и прорвали оцепление. Свободная страна, свободные люди, ведь власти продолжают запрещать митинги, это же не парад и обнулением, правда?
 

 
 
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Fauci Warns US Not to Give Into ‘False Complacency’ as COVID-19 Death Rate Falls

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As the United States approaches 3 million total coronavirus cases, the nation’s top infectious disease expert warned Americans on Tuesday not to fall into a “false complacency” about the nation’s falling death rate from the coronavirus pandemic.Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made the remarks during a question-and-answer session with U.S. Senator Doug Jones on Facebook.“It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” Fauci said. “There’s so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus, don’t get yourself into false complacency.The U.S. has recorded 131,457 deaths from COVID-19 as of Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. President Donald Trump boasted late Tuesday night on Twitter that the “Death Rate from Coronavirus is down tenfold!”Death Rate from Coronavirus is down tenfold!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2020But Fauci warned earlier this week that the United States is “still knee-deep in the first wave” of the pandemic.Fauci’s latest warning on the state of coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. came on the same day the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations it is withdrawing from the World Health Organization, despite the surging number of COVID-19 cases in the country.Trump has accused the WHO of having a pro-China bias in its handling of the coronavirus outbreak and has demanded the agency impose reforms.  Trump froze U.S. funding for the WHO in April and a month later announced his intentions to drop out.It will be a full year before the U.S. officially exits the WHO under the organization’s rules. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has said he will rejoin world health body if he is elected in November.Meanwhile, the WHO acknowledged on Tuesday that airborne transmission plays a role in the spread of the coronavirus and planned to release a new set of recommendations about how to avoid infection.A group of 239 scientists from 32 countries released an open letter on Monday calling on the agency to review its guidance on how the disease passes between people.The scientists say the coronavirus is airborne, meaning virus particles can hover in the air in indoor spaces and infect people when the particles are inhaled.The WHO has said the virus is spread through larger respiratory droplets from an infected person’s coughs and sneezes but which drop out of the air quickly because of their size. 
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Massive Machines Search for Smallest Pieces of Universe

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Antimatter.It’s not just the stuff of science fiction.  The physicists working at CERN – officially the European Organization for Nuclear Research – create it almost every day as part of their efforts to find out what the universe is made of and how it works. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CERN is a consortium of 23 countries and includes scientists and workers from many more.Their research lab is a ring-shaped underground tunnel, 27 kilometers around, that crisscrosses the border between Switzerland and France. In the tunnel lies the Large Hadron Collider, where protons – one of the building blocks of atoms – are made to crash into one another with incredible force, creating, among other elements, antimatter. But just because physicists can make antimatter doesn’t mean they understand everything about it yet. Antimatter is as old as the universe, part of its original creation, in an event often referred to as the “Big Bang.” Ludivine Ceard, physicist with the CMS Collaboration, gestures at the Compace Muon Solinoid – one of the experiments at CERN, in Geneva, looking for the tiniest particles of matter. (Courtesy Robert Gumm.)Ludivine Ceard, a physicist with CERN, discussed one of the theories behind the research.“We have this theory that says that right after the Big Bang, there was creation in equal amount between matter and antimatter,” she said.“In principle, if the difference between the two is only the charge, they should have just recombined and left nothing but radiation; however, we are here. I’m talking with you right now. So it means that at some point, matter took over the antimatter, and this must be because there are some differences between matter and antimatter that we don’t know about,” Ceard said.Searching for those differences is one of the tasks for the people at the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS, one of four main experiment sites around the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.  A muon is one of the so-called elementary particles, one with no smaller components. It is similar to an electron, but heavier. And while it is very, very tiny, the machine built to study it is large. A CMS staff member walking near the structure when VOA visited was dwarfed by the apparatus designed to study the muon.A cutaway illustration of the tube carrying the proton beams around the Large Hadron collider. The tube has been removed for maintenance. (Courtesy Robert Gumm)To create muons and antimatter, packets of protons race around a circular track in the LHC in two beams, one traveling clockwise and one counterclockwise near the speed of light. When the physicists are ready, the beams are focused and made to collide at just the right spot. Rende Steerenberg heads the group in charge of seeing those collisions happen. “On either end of the experiments we will switch on focusing magnets so that the beam squeezes into a small dimension and therefore the probability of collision increases,” he said.Even so, with 100 billion protons in a packet moving in one direction, and another 100 billion protons moving the other way, only 50 protons are likely to collide.Right now, the probability of a collision is zero – because the collider and the experiments around it are in the midst of a two-year shutdown for maintenance and upgrades – which happens every three years. You might think that would leave the scientists feeling frustrated, but you would be wrong. Patricia McBride, physicist with Fermilab, and deputy spokesperson of the CMS Collaboration in Geneva. (Courtesy Robert Gumm)The deputy spokesperson of the CMS Collaboration, Patricia McBride from Fermilab in the U.S., says what we might think of as down time is anything but.“I would say that for us it’s an opportunity. It’s also one of the busiest times for us because not only are we looking at the data that we’ve collected from the LHC from the last two rounds, but we’re looking at ways of making the detector better, repairing things, putting in new detectors, and preparing for the future runs which the experiment will be running until we hope till 2035,” she said.The collider was built in 10 years. Shortly after going into operation, it immediately made its predecessor, the Tevatron, a circular collider at the United States’ Fermilab in Illinois, obsolete. The Tevatron shut down in September 2011, not long after the LHC created its first particle collisions. But the researchers at Fermilab weren’t devastated by their eclipse. In fact, they helped build the new collider, and when it opened, they presented the new team with a baton – like those used in relay races – to symbolize the continuation of their research efforts. The CMS collaboration includes some 4,000 Scientists from more than 50 countries from across Europe, India, China, South Korea, Egypt, other parts of the Middle East and Russia.The discoveries and developments made at CERN are already helping to transform fields as diverse as nuclear waste disposal, medical testing, detection of art forgeries and efforts to disrupt financial markets. Technologies developed for CERN are also finding uses in optimizing farm irrigation, in creating sensors that detect water pollution, and in speeding up machine learning, to create better software for self-driving vehicles. And while the scientists love when the experiments confirm their predictions, they also love it when things don’t turn out as expected – because that might be saying something very fundamental about antimatter – and how the universe is put together. 
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US Chief Justice Roberts Spent June Night in Hospital After Fall

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The U.S. Supreme Court said late Tuesday that Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night at a hospital last month for precautionary reasons after injuring his head in a fall.A spokesperson said Roberts was walking and fell as a result of what was likely light-headedness caused by dehydration.The statement said doctors had ruled out a seizure in the June 21 incident. The 65-year-old Roberts had seizures in 1993 and 2007.”The chief justice was treated at a local hospital on June 21 for an injury to his forehead sustained in a fall while walking for exercise near his home,” the statement said. “The injury required sutures, and out of an abundance of caution, he stayed in the hospital overnight and was discharged the next morning.”The Washington Post reported Roberts fell at a country club just outside of Washington, D.C. 
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Mexican President Visits US With Focus on Trade

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in Washington for meetings Wednesday with U.S. President Donald Trump days after a new trade deal among the two countries and Canada went into effect.Speaking to reporters in Mexico City before his departure Tuesday, López Obrador repeatedly said in response to questions about raising other issues such as immigration policy that his focus in the talks would be on the trade deal.“It is always important that there be cooperation for development, but now in a circumstance of global economic crisis this treaty is going to help us a lot, it is very timely,” López Obrador said.He noted the economic challenges facing Mexico, like many other countries, during the coronavirus pandemic and stressed the need for Mexico to have good relations with its neighbor.The Mexican leaders noted the agenda for bilateral talks does include other topics, and on those his delegation, which includes Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon and Economic Secretary Graciela Márquez Colín, will not take a confrontational approach, but rather try to have a dialogue of understanding with their U.S. counterparts.Trump, in brief comments ahead of the López Obrador’s visit, said the two will have “quite a meeting.”“He’s a good man. He’s a friend of mine. And we have a great relationship with Mexico,” Trump said.The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement updated the 1990s North American Trade Agreement and was a major policy push of Trump, who cast the former trade deal as harmful to U.S. businesses and workers.The pact includes new laws related to intellectual property protection, the internet, currencies, investment and state-owned enterprises. The new legislation includes more stringent rules on auto manufacturing, e-commerce and labor provisions, but leaves largely unchanged the trade flows among the North American countries valued at $1.2 trillion a year.In addition to private talks between Trump and López Obrador and wider meetings with their advisers, the two leaders will also take part in a dinner Wednesday night with business leaders from both countries.The Mexican foreign ministry said before going to the White House, López Obrador will make visits to the Lincoln Memorial and a statue of former Mexican President Benito Juárez in Washington. 
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Trump Says He’d Meet with Kim Jong Un Again

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U.S. President Donald Trump says he is open to another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even as Pyongyang signals it is uninterested in resuming stalled nuclear talks.Trump made the comments Tuesday in an interview with Gray Television’s Greta Van Susteren.”I understand they want to meet and we would certainly do that,” Trump said, later adding: “I would do it if I thought it was going to be helpful.”When Van Susteren, also a VOA contributor, asked if Trump thought such a meeting would be helpful, Trump replied: “Probably. I have a very good relationship with him, [so it] probably would be.”North Korea has twice in the past week said it is not interested in more talks with the U.S., insisting another summit would only benefit Trump’s domestic political situation.“Explicitly speaking once again, we have no intention to sit face to face with the U.S.,” said Kwon Jong Gun, a North Korean foreign ministry official, in an article in the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) Tuesday.On Saturday, senior North Korean diplomat Choe Son Hui said the U.S. “is mistaken if it thinks things like negotiations would still work on us.””We do not feel any need to sit face to face with the U.S., as it does not consider the DPRK-U.S. dialogue as nothing more than a tool for grappling its political crisis,” Choe said.Earlier this month, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said he would like to see Trump and Kim hold another meeting before the U.S. presidential election in November.The issue is likely to come up Wednesday when U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Steve Biegun meets in Seoul with South Korean leaders on how to advance the stalled nuclear talks.Biegun, the top U.S. negotiator on North Korea, last month said an in-person summit before the election is unlikely, in part because of coronavirus concerns.Some analysts have questioned whether Trump has other priorities; with just four months to go until the election, Trump is badly trailing Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in the polls. North Korea is not seen as a major issue in the U.S. election.However, if Trump could revive the North Korea talks, it could help highlight what White House officials had once heralded as a signature Trump foreign policy achievement.Stalled talksTrump and Kim met for the first time in June 2018 in Singapore, where they signed a short statement vowing to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”Though the statement was less substantive than some past U.S.-North Korea agreements, many analysts and officials hoped that Trump and Kim’s unique “top-down” approach to the talks would pave the way for later progress in working-level negotiations.Hopes were high in February 2019, when Trump and Kim met for a second time in Hanoi, Vietnam. But that summit ended abruptly after the two men failed to agree on how to pair sanctions relief with steps to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear program.In June 2019, Trump and Kim met briefly at the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. In October, the two sides also engaged in working-level talks that quickly broke down. North Korea has since boycotted the discussions.North Korea is angry at the U.S. refusal to relax sanctions and provide security guarantees as part of a step-by-step denuclearization process. The Trump administration wants Pyongyang to first agree to give up its entire nuclear weapons program.Relationship strongTrump has repeatedly insisted his relationship with Kim remains strong and has portrayed his outreach to Kim as a success, even as North Korea resumed frequent short-range missile tests and other provocations.”Just so you understand, [it’s been] almost four years we’re not in a war. Almost anybody else would have been in a war. I get along, we talk, and let’s see what happens. But we’ve done a great job and haven’t been given the credit we deserve,” Trump told Van Susteren.Since Trump and Kim began talking, North Korea has refrained from nuclear and long-range missile tests but continues developing nuclear weapons. According to some estimates, North Korea now has enough material for about 40 nuclear bombs.Asked about North Korea’s continued nuclear weapons activity, Trump replied:“Well, we’ll have to see. There’s no delivery, et cetera, et cetera, as you know. Not yet. And at some point there might be. And we’ll have to have very serious discussions and thought about that, because there could be some time when something’s going to happen.”The complete interview will air Sunday on Gray TV’s Full Court Press program, but VOA obtained a transcript of Trump’s North Korea comments ahead of time.  
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Central Mali Seeks Protection Following Deadly Attacks

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Local officials in central Mali are calling on the government to deploy additional troops to the restive region following several attacks that targeted civilians last week. The simultaneous attacks, which killed at least 30 civilians, took place in four villages of the Bankass region last Wednesday, local officials said.   While no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, local officials have blamed jihadists for carrying out the deadly assaults. “These attacks were conducted by the jihadists,” said Allaye Guindo, mayor of Bankass. “They came from Baye, a village on the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, to carry out these attacks in the Bankass municipality.” Guindo told VOA that 33 villagers, including women and children, were killed in the attacks. The victims were all from the Dogon ethnic group, he said. The mayor added that the attacks have forced hundreds of villagers to leave their homes, fearing that armed groups could launch new attacks.    Increased violence Deadly clashes between the ethnic Fulani and Dogon communities have increased in recent months. The United Nations said in a report last month that violence in central Mali has killed about 600 civilians this year. The conflict in Mali began in 2012 when a separatist uprising in the north was largely taken over by al-Qaida affiliates. Since then, thousands of civilians and military personnel have been killed. Violence reached central Mali in 2015 when Islamist militant groups moved from north to central Mali. The U.N. has a peacekeeping mission in the country, while France maintains an ongoing military campaign against the insurgents. The U.N. Security Council last week renewed the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, for one more year. MINUSMA currently has about 15,000 personnel in Mali. Troops ambushed Guindo called on the central government in Bamako and its international partners to act quickly to bring an end to the growing violence in the central part of the West African country. Malian authorities said they have responded to last week’s attacks by sending a military unit to the region. One day after the attacks, Malian soldiers were deployed to Gouari, one of the targeted villages, after receiving information about a new attack, a military spokesman said. “When (they) arrived at around 8 p.m., the village seemed deserted. There were practically no signs of life,” army spokesman Col. Diarran Kone told the Agence France-Presse news agency last week. “Just at the entrance, the FAMA (Malian Armed Forces) walked into an ambush,” he said, adding that “nine (soldiers) died and two were injured, and equipment was also destroyed.” ‘Multidimensional’ conflict Bakary Sambe, a security expert at the Timbuktu Institute in Dakar, Senegal, calls the crisis in central Mali “multidimensional.” “It would be simplistic to interpret it only through the prism of jihadist-motivated violence,” he told VOA. “It would also be simplistic to see it as a simple ethnic issue, since Fulani and Dogon have lived together for centuries.” Sambe said the real problem is the failure of the security governance system that took the risk of countering the insurgency by creating local ethnic-based militias. Experts believe that deep-rooted conflicts over resources in northern and central Mali have been exploited by extremist and criminal groups to exacerbate the violence. “The Malian state should first cut off terrorist networks from their local incubators and undertake an inclusive dialogue based on local conflict resolution mechanisms,” Sambe asserted. In an effort to end the conflict, the government of Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced in February it had been in talks with the main jihadist groups in Mali. The Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), an alliance of several extremist factions, is the main group that is active in parts of Mali. The group has pledged allegiance to al-Qaida. The talks, however, seem to have reached a stalemate since jihadists insist that France pull out its troops from Mali as a condition to continue the negotiations. Sambe said a genuine stabilization policy in Mali is needed with the help of the international community. “It will be necessary to go beyond mere repression and even explore the paths of transitional justice, knowing that the future of this region cannot be built on revenge and reprimands,” he said. Kadiatou Traore of VOA’s Bambara service contributed to this story from Washington. 
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Amid Pandemic, Trump Pushes for Schools to Reopen

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Amid a surge of COVID-19 infections, especially among younger people, the White House is pressuring schools across the United States to reopen.  “We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools, to get them open. It’s very important,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday at a White House event, where he heard from a chorus of invited voices echoing his sentiment. Trump, the previous day, tweeted: “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!”  SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) First lady Melania Trump listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a “National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America’s Schools” event in the East Room of the White House, July 7, 2020.A significant unknown is whether young children, who are efficient transmitters of the influenza virus, will spread this coronavirus to older teachers and staff, and take the novel coronavirus home to their family members and elderly relatives.  “We don’t know that yet about the COVID virus. Does it really infect the children and they can transmit it or is it very difficult for this virus to infect children? Those studies are still under way,” Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told VOA.   The FILE – Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies on Capitol Hill, June 23, 2020.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “never recommended school closures,” Director Robert Redfield told reporters on a conference call prior to the president’s event.  ”We didn’t feel that was really an effective public health strategy that needed to be operationalized.” Conflicting messages from the administration, public health officials and others is certain to create tension in the weeks ahead.   “I think what we’re going to find is a clashing between parent groups, teacher groups, school administrator groups, all trying to wrestle with what safety and well-being looks like as the schools reopen this fall,” John Bailey, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told VOA.  Education groups want at least $200 billion in federal funding to safely reopen at a time state coffers have been depleted due to the economic recession caused by the pandemic. Only $13.5 billion has been appropriated.  DeVos: ‘School must reopen’Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told governors during a conference call Tuesday that she opposes plans by some local school districts to limit classroom instruction to only a few days per week.  U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos attends an event on reopening schools amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the East Room at the White House in Washington, July 7, 2020.”Ultimately, it’s not a matter of if schools need to open, it’s a matter of how,” DeVos said on the call. “School must reopen, they must be fully operational and how that happens is best left to education and community leaders.”  The education secretary singled out for criticism Fairfax County, Virginia — one of the country’s biggest school districts — which wants families to choose between fully remote instruction or two days per week in the classroom.  “A choice of two days per week in the classroom is not a choice at all,” DeVos said, calling the school district’s distance-learning program earlier this year a “disaster.”Fairfax County Public Schools, in a statement to VOA, acknowledged problems, stating, “We would all prefer to have our school year, this fall, as a ‘normal’ in-person school year. However, the health and safety of our staff, our students and our community must outweigh all other factors. We are following the guidance of local, state and federal health officials in developing our return-to-school plan.” The school district is working hard to ensure that all of its “students will receive meaningful instruction — both virtually and in-person — along with the opportunity to engage with students and staff this fall,” the statement added.  Reaction to possible reopeningThe 3 million-member National Education Association is blasting Trump and DeVos.  “They have zero credibility for how to best support students, and how to reopen classrooms safely,” NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia, a sixth-grade teacher, said in a statement issued while the White House event was underway. “The country must listen to the health experts on when to reopen schools and to educators on how to return to in-person instruction.”  FILE – California Gov. Gavin Newsom gestures during a news conference at the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova, Calif., April 14, 2020.California Governor Gavin Newsom said he expects schools to hold in-person instruction “to the greatest extent possible” when the new instruction year begins, but physical classes remain uncertain in the country’s most populous state.  School districts in the second-largest state, Texas, are still attempting to figure out what to do when classes are to begin next month.  Florida Department of Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday, requiring all “brick-and-mortar schools” to open next month “at least five days per week for all students.” Florida is the third-biggest U.S. state in terms of population.  In the state of New York, the fourth most populous, Governor Andrew Cuomo is reasserting he is the sole authority to determine when schools will reopen.  “There has been no decision yet as to whether we are reopening schools,” Cuomo said Monday. “We want kids back in school for a number of reasons, but we’re not going to say children should go back to school until we know it’s safe.” College classesTrump, at the conclusion of Tuesday’s event, called it “ridiculous” that Harvard University and other institutions have decided it is too risky to hold classes on campus during the upcoming semester.  “They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” he said. “That’s called the easy way out.”For such colleges and universities, the Trump administration is applying pressure another way by forcing campuses to reopen to in-person classes if they want to keep their international students enrolled.  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday the State Department will not issue visas to students in online-only programs and Customs and Border Protection will not allow such students to enter the country.  VOA’s Patsy Widakuswara contributed to this report.
 
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Britain Sanctions Russian, Saudi Officials; Is China Next Target?

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There are growing calls for Britain to also enact sanctions against human rights abusers in China, after the first such measures were imposed against dozens of individuals from Russia and Saudi Arabia. The first so-called ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions were announced Monday following years of campaigning by friends and family of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer killed in 2009. As Henry Ridgwell reports from London, the British capital is a center for global finance and travel – so campaigners hope the sanctions will have a substantial impact.Camera: Henry Ridgwell   
 
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Hong Kong Protester Calculates Personal Toll After a Year of Activism

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The lives of many Hong Kong protesters have changed radically over the past year, as China pushed new national security laws eroding Hong Kong’s freedoms.  One protester, a 24-year-old woman who asked to be identified as “K,” told VOA how the political controversy has been a deeply personal struggle.  A year ago, she lived comfortably with her parents and elder sister. Among three siblings, she was closest to her parents. But everything changed on Father’s Day last year. On June 16, 2019, 2 million people in Hong Kong took part in a march opposing China’s new Anti-Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, which was widely believed to expose Hong Kong citizens to political prosecutions from mainland China.  K was among them. After the march, she went home and was criticized by her mother. “Growing up, I was the most filial one at home. But it was unfair to me that my mother accused me of not being a good daughter because I marched,” K said. Her sister sided with her parents, who thought the demonstrators undermined the stability of society. As the protests continued over subsequent weeks, the news became a source of endless arguments in the family. K began avoiding family dinners, dining out after work and returning home after everyone else was already asleep. She did not stop defending her political beliefs. She recalled telling her family, “You want me to be arrested and continue to support the police beating the public, and maybe the next victim is your daughter. Sooner or later you’ll see me in the papers, or in a funeral house.” Breaking point On July 21, the protest movement in Hong Kong took a turn when organized vigilantes wearing white and brandishing weapons attacked protesters. K’s family called the demonstrators “cockroaches” who should have been killed. She said that was a breaking point for her. “Now, it’s about right and wrong, black and white. You will inevitably get angry when a stranger says such harsh words. But when it’s your family who are so cold-blooded, it’s hard to accept that those who have taken care of you for years have lost their soul,” she said. K decided to move out. After finding a place to live, she returned home, packed her clothes and left quietly, without mentioning it to her family.  One day while lying in bed, she suddenly wondered how she had ended up there alone. “My life had been very smooth. I was planning to work to a certain age, save enough money to buy a house with a boyfriend and get married. But now as I live alone, it’s not a problem to feed myself, but it’s impossible to save money for a house.” Still, she does not regret her decision. She even blocked her parents’ mobile phone numbers.  This year, she was alone for the first time for the New Year’s holiday. Her mother collected traditional red envelopes filled with money for her and passed them to her through relatives. A handwritten note with blessings from her mother was inside an envelope. K burst into tears.  “I wanted to be closer to my parents over the years because I knew they wouldn’t have a lot of time left to spend with us. My mother’s health also began to deteriorate. I hope there will be more opportunities to care for them. It was just earlier last year when I invited my mother to travel in Japan. I didn’t expect to cut off contact with my parents to take part in this social movement.” China’s National People’s Congress announced the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law last month. The sudden announcement prompted K to take to the streets again. “We often say that the dawn is coming, and we are liberating Hong Kong. It’s always darkest before dawn. We often say we are willing to perish together, and we expect such a dark day. We can only be reborn after perishing together.” It was the movement that showed K that Hong Kongers can be united. Sacrifice for freedom K said she was willing to give up her own future in exchange for Hong Kong’s, like many other Hong Kongers. “The sacrifice I’m making now is just a way to get freedom in the future, and I think it’s worth it. I can go on with the simple life I used to live, but I will lose my freedom. I wouldn’t be able to use Facebook. I wouldn’t be able to talk about politics. And there are more people who have sacrificed even their own lives and their own future.” K once believed that Hong Kong had an independent judicial system. But she now realizes that the entire Hong Kong government — the judiciary, executive and legislative branches — is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.  “The only thing we should fight for now is Hong Kong’s independence.” She said she is working with a group of determined people who have not given up.“At least we have tried. No matter whether Hong Kong will finally be independent, in my mind, Hong Kong has become independent.” K has been trying to forgive her parents. She secretly asked neighbors to take care of her parents while she was away. She said while she would regret anything happening to her parents, there is little she can do to repair their relationship while the political struggle is so intense. Adrianna Zhang contributed to this report.
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US General Skeptical That Bounties Led to Troops’ Deaths

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The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths.  General Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command, said in a telephone interview with a small group of reporters that the U.S. did not increase force protection measures in Afghanistan as a result of the information, although he asked his intelligence staff to dig into the matter more.  “I found it very worrisome. I didn’t find that there was a causative link there,” said McKenzie, who is the first Pentagon official to speak publicly at length about the issue. He warned, however, that Russia has long been a threat in Afghanistan, where there have been many reports that it has backed Taliban fighters over the years with resources and weapons.  According to U.S. intelligence officials, information that Russia offered bounties to Taliban militants for killing American troops was included in an intelligence brief for President Donald Trump in late February. The White House, however, has denied Trump was briefed at that time, arguing that the intelligence was not credible enough to bring to his attention. McKenzie said that while he could draw no direct link between any potential payments and U.S. casualties, it’s common that intelligence is not definitive. “We should always remember, the Russians are not our friends,” said McKenzie, who is traveling in the Middle East. “They are not our friends in Afghanistan. And they do not wish us well, and we just need to remember that at all times when we evaluate that intelligence.” He said there was no need to beef up security for troops there because the U.S. already takes “extreme force protections measures” in Afghanistan. “Whether the Russians are paying the Taliban or not, over the past several years, the Taliban have done their level best to carry out operations against us.”  Just days after the February intelligence briefing, the U.S. signed an agreement with the Taliban, mapping out the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan by May 2021. That date would be nearly 20 years after American forces invaded the country after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. by al-Qaida militants.  Trump had repeatedly said he wants to have all U.S. forces out of Afghanistan. His call in May for a quick exit fueled speculation that he wants troops out by the November election, as part of his vow to end U.S. involvement in what he calls “endless wars.” The U.S. pulled several thousand troops out this year, and now has about 8,600 there. Additional troop withdrawal is contingent on the Taliban’s commitment that extremist groups, such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, not be able to use the country as a base to carry out attacks on the U.S. Asked about the potential for pulling more U.S. troops out, McKenzie said he still does not believe the conditions allow for a significant reduction yet. 
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South Sudan Diplomat Urinates During Live Panel Discussion

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A South Sudanese diplomat in the United States sparked an online uproar when he was seen urinating during a live Facebook political discussion. Panelists were discussing the appointment of a governor for Upper Nile state on Friday when Gordon Buay, South Sudan’s deputy ambassador to the U.S., was seen walking to the bathroom wearing only a shirt and relieving himself, in full view of all other panelists. The video went viral, with many social media users calling on Buay to step down.   Some commentators accused Buay of being intoxicated during the panel discussion, noting that he was shouting at other panelists.   While some of the panelists appeared shocked to see Buay relieve himself, a few smiled and laughed.  The video was removed from Youtube on Saturday afternoon but a clip was shared widely on social media minutes after organizers removed the original video. Buay posted a message on his Facebook page urging people not to believe what he called a “fake video.” Buay did not respond to numerous attempts by VOA’s South Sudan in Focus to reach him for comment. South Sudanese government officials have also declined to comment. Buay’s behavior tarnished the image of South Sudan and immediate disciplinary action should be taken against the top diplomat, said political analyst James Okuk of the Center for Strategic Studies in Juba. “Such kind of behavior in line with diplomatic ethics has not happened anywhere in the history of international relations. So it is really shameful and is tainting the image of South Sudan and it should not be taken lightly in Juba,” Okuk told South Sudan in Focus. Okuk, a former diplomat to Khartoum and Brazil, said diplomats should always be sensitive about how they present themselves to the public. “Pretending to defend the government while naked and also trying to talk in a chaotic manner when he is drunk and then going to the toilet to pee without switching off the camera of the phone and coming back to defend saying there was nothing wrong.  Something just really must be done,” Okuk said. Okuk said Buay should be recalled and investigated. Shortly after Buay urinated, moderator Peter Keny ended the discussion, following a heated argument between Buay and other panelists.  “Thank you so much, brother, I really appreciate the time and I thank you, ambassador. South Sudanese that is your ambassador Gordon Buay, let us end the show, thank you so much, God bless you,” said the moderator.  Ambassador Buay was among 43 diplomats who were recalled and returned to Juba in February. In March, South Sudan’s Ambassador to the U.S. Mayen Dut Wol wrote a letter canceling Buay’s recall. 
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Любовний трикутник шарія, медведчука та унітазів + нові докази співпраці пропагандиста із окупантами

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Любовний трикутник шарія, медведчука та унітазів + нові докази співпраці пропагандиста із окупантами.

Останнім часом придурок шарій не вилазить з каналів дегенерата медведчука, сам кум опущеного карлика пукіна називає його своїм союзником, а деякі депутати з опзж обіцяють йому навіть силову підтримку.

Все це вказує на співпрацю пропагандиста з придурком медведчуком та перетворює партію дегенерата шарія на своєрідне молодіжне крило опзж.

Про це та про нове кримінальне провадження щодо соратниці дегенерата шарія, а також про його туалетні подвиги дивіться у випуску.

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Вот и всё: опущенный карлик пукин отобрал у холопов морковку

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Вот и всё: опущенный карлик пукин отобрал у холопов морковку
 

 
 
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Не пили сук: обнуление сливных бачков

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Не пили сук: обнуление сливных бачков
 

 
 
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Працівник ДБР схопив її за клістрона! Люті новини

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Працівник ДБР схопив її за клістрона! Люті новини
 

 
 
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Как служит опущенному карликовому фюреру «либеральное радио» путляндского рейха

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Как служит опущенному карликовому фюреру «либеральное радио» путляндского рейха.

О том, зачем опущенному карлику пукину эта имитация «либерального СМИ» и как это на самом деле работает
 

 
 
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China, Afghanistan, Pakistan Seek ‘Orderly’ Foreign Troop Exit

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China, Afghanistan and Pakistan are calling for a “responsible” withdrawal of U.S.-led international forces from Afghanistan to prevent what they say is “potential terrorist resurgence” in the conflict-torn nation.Top Chinese, Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministry officials issued the statement Tuesday at the end of the latest round of trilateral “strategic dialogue” the neighboring countries held via video link.“The three sides urged for an orderly, responsible and condition-based withdraw of the foreign troops from Afghanistan to avoid potential terrorist resurgence,” said a joint post-meeting statement.The discussions came as the United States presses the Afghan government and the Taliban insurgency to quickly conclude a contentious prisoner swap to allow the start of the long-awaited negotiations between Afghan parties to the deadly conflict.An eventual peace deal would enable U.S. and allied forces to withdraw from the country by July 2021 under a February 29 landmark agreement between Washington and the Taliban to end nearly two decades of Afghan war, America’s longest. FILE – U.S. military advisers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade walk at an Afghan National Army base in Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan, August 6, 2018.The U.S. military has pulled out several thousand personnel from Afghanistan since signing the pact, bringing the troop level to around 8,600. Washington, however, has stated that the drawdown of remaining troops will be “conditions-based,” and linked to whether the Taliban lives up to its counterterrorism pledges.The proposed intra-Afghan dialogue was originally scheduled for March, but controversies plaguing the prisoner exchange and increased Taliban attacks against Afghan security forces have been blamed for the prolonged delay.Afghan officials have freed about 4,000 insurgent prisoners but have linked the release of the remaining 1,000 to a reduction in Taliban violence and initiation of peace talks.The Taliban says it has set free 737 out of the promised 1,000 Afghan security personnel from its custody. The group maintains it is working to release the remaining Kabul detainees but will not engage in peace talks until all 5,000 Taliban prisoners are released. In Tuesday’s joint statement, China and Pakistan called for a reduction in violence and a humanitarian cease-fire, with both countries vowing to enhance cooperation with the Afghan government in support of “the peace reconciliation process, [and] the launch of intra-Afghan negotiations at an early date.”Beijing is credited with establishing the trilateral dialogue process to help Kabul and Islamabad ease bilateral tensions and enhance economic as well as security cooperation. “China will continue to play a constructive role in improving Afghanistan-Pakistan relations,” the statement said.“The three sides agreed to continue to strengthen counter-terrorism and security cooperation, combat the “East Turkistan Islamic Movement”, and all other terrorist forces and networks posing threats to our common security,” it noted while referring to an anti-China terrorist group.Leaders in Kabul and U.S. military commanders have long alleged the Afghan Taliban directs insurgent activities from sanctuaries on Pakistani soil, charges Islamabad rejects. The Trump administration, however, has hailed Pakistan for facilitating Washington’s talks with the Taliban and the eventual peace-building pact between the two adversaries.Pakistani officials insist insurgent fighters use communities hosting several million Afghan refugees in the country as hiding places. Islamabad repeatedly has called on the international community to help repatriate the refugee community to Afghanistan. The issue also came under discussions in Tuesday’s trilateral conference.“The three sides agreed that the return of Afghan refugees should be part of peace and reconciliation process and underlined the role of international community for a time-bound and well-resourced roadmap for the return of Afghan refugees to their homeland with dignity and honor,” said the statement. 
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Dutch Police Arrest 6 Men After Discovery of ‘Torture Chambers’

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Dutch police announced Tuesday they arrested six men after discovering shipping containers that had been converted into a makeshift prison and sound-proofed “torture chamber.”  In their statement, officials said they discovered seven converted sea shipping containers in a warehouse in Wouwse Plantage, a small village in the southwestern part of the Netherlands, close to the border with Belgium.  Law enforcement authorities released video Tuesday showing a special police unit opening the shipping containers to reveal a specially rigged dentists’ chair, along with tools that included pliers, scalpels and handcuffs.  Police say the discoveries were originally made last month after investigating leads generated by data from encrypted telephones used by criminals that were cracked recently by French police. Detectives in Britain and the Netherlands have already arrested hundreds of suspects based on the encrypted messages.The police said they were tipped off by messages from an EncroChat phone that included photos of the container and dentist’s chair with belts attached to the arm and foot supports. They arrested six men June 22, on suspicion of crimes including planning kidnappings and serious assault.  The messages called the warehouse the “treatment room” and the “ebi,” a reference to a top security Dutch prison. Police said the messages also revealed identities of potential victims, who were warned and went into hiding.Dutch authorities said last week that their investigation, codenamed 26Lemont, based on millions of messages from the EncroChat phones, had led to the arrest of more than 100 suspects and the seizure of more than 8,000 kilograms of cocaine and 1,200 kilograms of crystal meth, as well as the dismantling of 19 synthetic drug labs and the seizure of dozens of firearms.
 
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Former African Slave Trade Center Renamed in Memory of George Floyd

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A small island off the coast of Africa known for its role in the slave trade has changed the name of its main square in response to the death of George Floyd and the global Black Lives Matter movement.  The island of Goree, a few kilometers off Senegal’s coast, announced Tuesday that Europe Square will now be known as Freedom and Human Dignity Square based on a decision by the municipal council.  Its original name was given in 1998 after European funding paid for renovations at the UNESCO World Heritage site.  “The name Europe Square was, in a way, a symbol of friendship between peoples,” said Doudou Dia, president of the island’s tourism commission. “But we also said to ourselves … that in another sense it is celebrating the persecutor,” he added. “What happened to George Floyd was the final straw.” Floyd, an African American, died May 25 in police custody in the U.S. city of Minneapolis. A white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd said he couldn’t breathe and cried out for his mother. Floyd’s death set off protests led by the Black Lives Matter activist group. Goree was the site of the largest holding area for enslaved people from 1536 to 1848. The island was valued for its small size and strategic location and was fought over by the Portuguese, Dutch, French and British during its 312-year history, according to the BBC.  The historic House of Slaves was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978 as a symbolic reminder of “human exploitation,” the agency said.  Today, the island is popular with tourists, although several prominent world leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II and former U.S. president Barack Obama, have visited the site.  
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USAGM CEO Appoints James Miles as Acting Director of Open Technology Fund

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The U.S. Agency for Global Media announced Tuesday the appointment of James M. Miles to serve as acting chief executive officer of the Open Technology Fund, a grantee organization of the agency.
 
The OTF “funds internet freedom, technologies and initiatives,” according to a USAGM press release.
 
In the statement, USAGM CEO Michael Pack said Miles will bring “a wealth of knowledge” and expertise to OTF.
 
“Bolstering firewall circumvention is a top priority of my three-year term at the agency, and Jim will bring much-needed new leadership to OTF, which has a critical role to play in advancing global freedom of expression and the American national interest.”
 
The USAGM statement said Miles was secretary of state of South Carolina from 1991 to 2003 and a founding partner at a South Carolina law firm that specializes in labor relations law.  
 
Miles’s appointment was announced after U.S. House Democrats published an open letter Friday expressing concern about the recent firings of heads of several news agencies under the USAGM, urging more transparency in its strategy and suggesting lawmakers should “consider fencing portions of USAGM funding.”
 
Eleven representatives sent the letter to the heads of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, declaring they were “deeply concerned about the firings of qualified leadership” and “reports that USAGM has frozen funds and grants” for programs aimed at evading censorship and providing tools for internet freedom in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
 
Signed by Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and other top Democrats, the letter expressed alarm about changes made by Pack, whom the Senate confirmed last month to lead the USAGM.  
 
Beyond personnel and budgetary matters, the lawmakers expressed concern that the agency’s “truth-based reporting and programming” would be jeopardized if its editorial independence was eroded.
 
The letter was sent ahead of Monday’s scheduled congressional hearing on oversight of the agency by the subcommittee that helps set funding for America’s outreach to the world.
 
Earlier in the week, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Pack last week saying they planned to review USAGM’s funding in light of recent developments. The senators said they were “deeply concerned” by Pack’s decision to fire the chiefs of Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, as well as the Open Technology Fund, which supports the free flow of information to countries that restrict press freedom.
 
“These actions, which came without any consultation with Congress, let alone notification, raise serious questions about the future of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) under your leadership,” the senators wrote.
 
Neither Pack, nor USAGM have responded to questions from VOA about the lawmakers’ letters.
 
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Can Europeans Handle a Spike in COVID-19 Cases?

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The United States is not the only country watching anxiously as coronavirus cases spike.Britain is poised to shutter individual towns in the event of a rise in confirmed cases. And the government has already locked down the English town of Leicester, where textile factories may be behind an alarming jump in infections, just as the rest of the country celebrated the easing of restrictions.Serbia reimposed a lockdown Friday as cases began to mount. Last month, neighboring Croatia reinstituted mandatory two-week self-isolation for travelers arriving from other Balkan countries. Bulgaria extended its state of emergency until July 15 and has made mask-wearing mandatory inside stores and public buildings.Deputy Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos, right, greets the 25 unaccompanied refugee children as they prepare to board a plane to Lisbon, Portugal at Athens International Airport, July 7, 2020.Following new outbreaks, Portugal renewed coronavirus restrictions on the capital, Lisbon, and the Spanish government has moved quickly with restrictions on parts of northeast Spain to try to tamp down local spikes.Some government officials say the biggest problem is persuading the public to observe social distancing rules and wearing masks. The easing of lockdowns and the reopening of economies do not mean caution should be jettisoned, they say.  Underlining their appeals for people to remain cautious and vigilant is an exasperation with egregious recklessness, prompting officials in some countries to question whether their citizens have the discipline or sense of civic responsibility to be trusted.In Britain, police expressed their frustration with maskless crowds converging outside bars and restaurants in some towns, including in central London. Last Saturday, the first day that bars reopened in England after the coronavirus shutdown, police described the close-quarters drinking and shoulder-to-shoulder socializing as “absolute madness.”“A predictably busy night confirmed what we knew, alcohol and social distancing is not a good combination,” tweeted John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales.Sgt. Richard Cooke of the West Midlands police tweeted, “Just got home after a long shift, late shift peppered with pub fights, domestic violence & drunken, drugged up fools. If today was anything to go by the second wave won’t be long in the making!”People sit and drink, outside a pub on the south bank of river Thames, as the capital is set to reopen after the lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in London, July 4, 2020.Rafal Liszewski, a store manager in the London district of Soho, told reporters that on Saturday, “Everything got out of control. And by 8 to 9 p.m., it was a proper street party, with people dancing and drinking. Barely anyone was wearing masks, and nobody respected social distancing,” he said. Liszewski added, “To be honest, with that many people on one street, it was physically impossible” (to social distance).Beaches have also seen swarms of people. In the English coastal town of Bournemouth, Mayor Vikki Slade said recently she was “absolutely appalled at the scenes witnessed on our beaches.”Britain has not been alone in seeing months of lockdown giving way to impromptu parties, illicit raves and illegal parties, hastily organized on social media and held in parks and industrial estates. In Portugal, a ban in Lisbon on gatherings of more than five people was instituted amid reports of illicit parties attracting thousands of young revelers. Portugal had been hailed as one of Europe’s coronavirus success stories. The government’s swift response was credited with keeping the country’s death toll to well under 2,000. But in recent weeks, cases have soared. Parties have proven fertile for the virus — 76 new cases were linked to a birthday celebration in The Algarve.“After doing everything right, we’re not going to ruin it now,” Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa said, as he banned drinking in public places and prohibited restaurants from serving alcohol after 8 p.m. Germany, France and Spain have all been worried about block parties and raves.Visitors watch oil on canvas of 1807 entitled Le Sacre de Napoleon by Jacques Louis David, at the Louvre Museum, in Paris, July 6, 2020.The World Health Organization warned that around 30 European countries have reported new case surges in the past two weeks, and epidemiologists said the trajectory is alarming in 11 countries.Spanish officials, who recently fined Belgium’s Prince Joachim $11,700 after he broke the country’s quarantine rules to attend a party in southern Spain, fear that people will not be able to resist the allure of the country’s ingrained culture of summer fiestas — as hundreds did recently in a spontaneous gathering in the Menorcan city of Ciutadella to mark the day of local Saint Joan.Along with officials, infectious disease experts blame signs of a resurgence on the negligence of the public, with too many people ignoring orders to wear masks and keep their distance. But critics in several European countries fault officials, saying governments have been giving mixed signals in their eagerness to restart economies and end lockdowns, and have issued at times contradictory and confused instructions. They say governments seem to be positioning themselves to blame the public for a coronavirus resurgence.David King, a former chief scientific adviser to the British government, has criticized the lockdown easing as over-hasty. “We need to look at the fastest route out of COVID-19, and that is not the current route,” he said. 
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Australian Man Fights Off Poisonous Snake While Driving

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Police in Australia report a truck driver in Queensland Tuesday managed to fend off a venomous snake he encountered in the front seat of his vehicle as he drove along the highway at more than 100 kilometers per hour.In their report, police say the 27-year-old driver – known only as Jimmy – was driving 123 kilometers per hour when they encountered him on the highway. He told the officers he used a seat belt and a knife to fight off the angry brown snake while he brought his vehicle to a halt.  
 
He said in a statement that as he moved, the snake began wrapping itself around his leg and was striking at the driver’s seat between his legs. Jimmy told police he thought he had been bitten and was trying to reach the nearest hospital when they pulled him over.
 
The police called paramedics to the scene to check the driver, and they determined he had not been bitten but was suffering from shock.
 
Police found the snake dead in the back of the truck and confirmed it was an eastern brown, highly venomous and one of the deadliest snakes in the world.
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