Deutsche Bank AG agreed Tuesday to pay a $150 million penalty to settle “significant compliance failures” in its dealings with convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The New York State Department of Financial Services said the bank did not properly monitor Epstein’s transactions, despite widespread public knowledge about his sexual misconduct. FILE – Financier Jeffrey Epstein looks on during a bail hearing in his sex trafficking case, in this court sketch in New York, July 15, 2019.It said Deutsche Bank’s failure led to its processing of hundreds of Epstein’s transactions that should have been more closely scrutinized, including payments to victims and law firms representing him and his accomplices.
The state regulator said Deutsche Bank also failed in its relationships with Danske Bank Estonia and FBME Bank by not properly monitoring their correspondent and clearing operations.
The regulator said the penalty is the first regulatory enforcement action against Epstein, who committed suicide in jail last August after being arrested a month earlier on sex trafficking charges.
Epstein, who socialized with President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, previously served more than a year in a Florida jail after pleading guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from a minor. Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell, in New York, July 2, 2020.Epstein’s longtime confidante, Ghislaine Maxwell, was transferred Monday to a New York City jail that is experiencing coronavirus and other problems as she is facing charges she recruited girls for Epstein to sexually abuse.
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Month: July 2020
Police Fire Tear Gas as Nairobians Protest Lack of Services, Rights Violations
Hundreds of demonstrators, mostly from poor parts of Nairobi, marched through the streets Tuesday of the Kenyan capital to protest against violent policing and the lack of basic services in their areas. Police used tear gas and arrests to block the protesters as they tried to reach the president’s office to deliver a petition.Saba Saba is a Swahili phrase that means “Seven Seven” in English, denoting the date, the 7th of July.It’s remembered in Kenya as the day in 1990 when opposition parties attempted to hold a series of nationwide rallies to protest the then-one party state and call for political reforms.Hundreds were arrested and dozens killed as security forces squashed the protests.On July 7, 2020 – the 30th anniversary of those protests – hundreds of people marched through the streets of Nairobi to demonstrate against what they describe as social and economic injustices.Most are residents of Mathare, Kiamaiko and Dandora, some of the poorest parts of Nairobi.Many protesters said the government is depriving them of basic needs, including the right to life.32-year-old George Muhia, a community organizer from Kiamaiko, a poor neighborhood in Nairobi, was among those hoping to deliver a petition to the president.Muhia said, “What the petition contains is some of the violations that we have documented as social justice centers and the enforced disappearances that have been happening even before Covid. Some of the disappearances happened in January when we lost three of our colleagues from Dandora, after three months three of our colleagues from Kiamaiko and up to date we can count at least 15 cases of enforced disappearances.”Since January to date, Missing Voices, a coalition of at least a dozen rights groups in Kenya, has documented 100 cases of police killings.Some of these victims, Muhia says, were people known to him. Muhia says the economic situation in Kenya does not allow poor people to access basic things like a good education and job opportunities.Aileen Wanjiku is the research campaigner at Missing Voices.
“This year, the big amend for the march is just implementation of the 2010 constitution, because what people are seeing is that when it comes to the implementation of article 43, this is the right to water, right to housing, these rights are actually not being respected or implemented by the government, and then there is the big one which is the right to life,” said Wanjiku. “So, we are also seeing that – this one is being disrespected in different ways, we have violent policing, we have a lot of people dying at the hands of police officers.”Police used tear gas to break up the march Tuesday, and they arrested more than 50 people.The protesters were unable to reach the president’s office to deliver their petition.
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France’s New Government Takes Office at Tough Time
France’s newly appointed government gets down to work this week facing big challenges, including coronavirus and the economic crisis — not to mention general elections in less than two years.
The new government takes office just over a week after President Emmanuel Macron’s Republic on the Move party fared poorly in the second round of local elections. France’s new prime minister Jean Castex arrives at the Elysee Palace for the weekly cabinet meeting, in Paris, July 7, 2020.Heading it is Prime Minister Jean Castex, a little known former mayor from the Pyrenees. He earned the title of “Mr. Deconfinement” after managing France’s emergence from the coronavirus lockdown. He replaces the popular Edouard Philippe, a possible challenger to Macron in the next election. “President Macron has one goal: to fight the recession, to transform the country, to be in a better shape than now for the next presidential election,” said Ulysse Gosset, a political commentator for France’s BFMTV.“The job of the new prime minister is to execute the orders from Macron,” added Gosset. “He has to deal with the crisis. And no more. Macron doesn’t want a prime minister who could be a competitor like former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was.”
Making more waves is the new interior minister, Gerard Darmanin. At 35, he’s the youngest interior minister of France’s Fifth Republic. He takes over at a time when the police force is demoralized and faces allegations of racism and brutality. Newly appointed French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin arrives to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 7, 2020.Darmanin himself faces a preliminary investigation into a rape accusation, which Macron’s office says didn’t pose an obstacle to his appointment. Police unions have offered a muted reaction to their new boss. But some feminists protested in front of the Elysee presidential palace. New Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti is also controversial. He’s earned a reputation as a pugnacious lawyer defending Corsican nationalists, African politicians and Wikileaks founder Julien Assange. One judges union leader slammed his appointment as a “declaration of war” against the judiciary. Macron’s reshuffled government faces heavy pressure to take environmental action after the Greens Party surged in municipal elections.Barbara Pompili, newly appointed French Minister for the Ecological Transition, arrives to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 7, 2020.The new minister for ecological transition, Barbara Pompili, co-founded an environmental party, and was a former secretary of state for biodiversity. But she isn’t a big name, and she’ll face close scrutiny in how she handles emissions reduction and other green goals.
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Russian Court Fines Coronavirus-Denying Rebel Monk
A Russian court on Tuesday fined a coronavirus-denying monk who has challenged Kremlin lockdown orders for spreading false information about the pandemic.The court in the Ural Mountains region ordered Father Sergiy to pay 90,000 rubles ($1,250). The 65-year-old monk, who has attracted nationwide attention by urging followers to disobey church leadership and ignore church closures during the pandemic, didn’t attend the court hearing.On Friday, a Russian Orthodox Church panel in Yekaterinburg ruled to defrock Father Sergiy for breaking monastic rules. He didn’t show up at the session and dismissed the verdict, urging his backers to come to defend the Sredneuralsk women’s monastery where he has holed up since last month.In Friday’s video posted by his supporters, Father Sergiy denounced President Vladimir Putin as a “traitor to the Motherland” serving a Satanic “world government” and dismissed Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill and other top clerics as “heretics” who must be “thrown out.”Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin wasn’t following developments regarding the rebel monk. When contagion engulfed Russia, Father Sergiy declared the coronavirus non-existent and denounced government efforts to stem the outbreak as “Satan’s electronic camp.” The monk has described the vaccines being developed against COVID-19 as part of a global plot to control the masses via chips.He urged believers to disobey the closure of churches during the nationwide lockdown. Orthodox churches across Russia were closed on April 13 amid a quick rise in COVID-19 cases and were allowed to reopen in early June as authorities eased restrictions.The church banned the monk from ministry in April, but he has continued preaching and last month took charge of the monastery outside Yekaterinburg that he had founded years ago. Dozens of burly volunteers, including veterans of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, helped enforce his rules, while the prioress and several nuns have left.The police visited the monastery last month a day after Father Sergiy took over, but found no violations of public order. Facing stiff resistance by his supporters, church officials have appeared indecisive, lacking the means to enforce their ruling and evict the rebellious monk by force.
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Через “зелену” енергію крадуна ахметова і ко українці можуть залишитися без світла
Через “зелену” енергію крадуна ахметова і ко українці можуть залишитися без світла.
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Що таке зелена енергетика українською? Це коли олігархи заробляють на високому тарифі, держава має боргів на 12 мільярдів, українські АЕС потихеньку вимикають, а брудні ТЕС продовжують працювати. Чому б не зробити навпаки? Бо таку систему розбудували наші любі продажні депутати, і чиновники. І вони знали, що так буде. Але владний і олігархічний бізнес дорожче. Через кого Україна опинилась на порозі енергетичної кризи
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«Судейская корпорация»: миллионы на неликвидированные суды и «круговая порука» в ВРП
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Навести порядок в этой сфере по закону должны органы судейского управления – но и с ними проблема. Кто заинтересован в блокировании работы Высшей квалификационной комиссии судей? Все эти вопросы касаются работы одного из самых влиятельных судебных учреждений в стране – Высшей рады правосудия. Насколько она является независимой и беспристрастной? И, наконец, какую реформу системы предлагает президент зеленский и не станут предложенные им изменения – очередной ширмой?
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Appeals Court Deals 2nd Blow to Trump Asylum Policy
A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a key U.S. policy to deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country without first seeking protection there, dealing it a second blow in less than a week. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has no immediate impact because a judge appointed by President Donald Trump in Washington last week knocked down the policy on procedural grounds. The three-judge appeals panel in San Francisco found procedural errors as well as substantive reasons to block the policy while litigation continues. The panel said it does “virtually nothing” to prevent asylum-seekers from being sent to unsafe countries, a violation of international treaty obligations. The impact is also lessened by a pandemic-related measure imposed in March to quickly expel asylum-seekers. In May, the administration extended it indefinitely, relying on a little-known public health law to prevent the spread of disease. The Justice and Homeland Security departments didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment late Monday. In response to last week’s decision, Homeland Security said it strongly disagreed and was considering options. The Supreme Court is unlikely to hear arguments before January if it takes the case. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights and Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of immigrant advocacy and service groups. “The court recognized the grave danger facing asylum seekers and blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to make an end-run around asylum protections enacted by Congress,” said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt. Judge William Fletcher, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, wrote the opinion. He was joined by Judge Richard Clifton, an appointee of George W. Bush, and Eric Miller, a Trump appointee who said the ruling should be much narrower in scope.
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Novavax Awarded $1.6 Billion to Develop US COVID-19 Vaccine
The U.S. government has awarded a $1.6 billion contract to Novavax, Inc. to develop a coronavirus vaccine.The award to the Maryland-based company is the largest to date from the government’s “Operation Warp Speed” initiative to fast-track the development of vaccines and other treatments for COVID-19.
Chief Executive Stanley Erck said the company aims to begin delivering 100 million doses of a vaccine in the fourth quarter of this year, an endeavor he said that “may be completed by January or February of next year.”Report: Britain Nears $625 mln Sanofi/GSK COVID-19 Vaccine DealClinical trials are due to start in September and Sanofi has said it expects to get approval by the first half of next year, sooner than previously anticipatedThe U.S. Health and Human Services Department and the Defense Department said in a joint statement that because the federal government funded the initiative, they “will own the 100 million doses of investigational vaccine expected to result from the demonstration projects.”The award was granted as the number of new infections are surging in the U.S., the world leader in infections and fatalities, prompting a growing number of states and cities to reimpose lockdown measures.The country’s preeminent infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned in an interview Monday the U.S. is still “knee-deep in the first wave of this” pandemic.Novavax’s stock price soared in premarket trading on the news it had received the government funding.WATCH: VOA Interview -Dr. Fauci optimistic about vaccine Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can
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Wildlife Poaching Doubles in Uganda During COVID-19 Lockdown
Uganda’s wildlife authorities say the halt to tourism income caused by COVID-19 has pushed many people who depended on tourists into poaching the very animals the industry depends on. Uganda’s national parks recorded a doubling of wildlife poaching during the pandemic compared to this time last year. Uganda’s conservationists are looking for alternative income sources for the communities to stop the poaching. Between February and June of this year, the Uganda Wildlife Authority recorded 367 poaching cases across the country, more than double the 163 cases recorded during a similar period in 2019. John Makombo, the Uganda Wildlife Authority director for conservation, attributes the increase to the COVID-19 lockdown, lost income for people who work in the tourism industry and inadequate human resources to cover all the conservation areas.Tourism is usually Uganda’s leading foreign exchange earner, reaping $1.6 billion in the 2018-2019 financial year alone.But, with the closure of the tourism sector due to COVID-19, Makombo says the tourism sector is not taking in any money, making the national parks vulnerable to poachers. “That loss of benefit has led to job loss and unemployment of many stakeholders,” Makombo said. “Some of the jobless community members have turned their spears against the wildlife as poachers.”The most recent incident was the killing of Rafiki, a beloved silverback gorilla in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in South Western Uganda.Gladys Kalema Zikusoka is founder and chief of Conservation through Public Health, a non-profit wildlife group. She says most gorilla killings are accidental, but killings of other animals are not.“They set snares for other animals that they want to eat. Like, the small antelope. Or a bushpig,” Kalema said. “They’ll go for those to eat them. And when they set these snares, gorillas can accidentally get caught in the snare. But worse still, we’ve had cases of people spearing gorillas. Yet they were not going for gorillas, they were going for diker and bush pig.”According to Uganda’s Tourism Act, 20 percent of all revenue collected in national parks is directed to local communities, including $10 of all permits from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.In the current circumstances, however, that money has dried up.Kalema says to cut down on poaching, her organization and the Uganda Wildlife Authority have started an enterprise where farmers are given an above market price for their coffee.“These are farmers who we engage so that they do not have to go into the park to poach to be able to feed their families,” Kalema said. “We are encouraging them, we are trying to see how to get them seedlings for fast growing food so that they can at least eat. They are not starving while they wait for tourism to come back. These local communities, I think, they can co-exist with wildlife, but if they are hungry, it’s very difficult for them to co-exist.”According to the Uganda Wildlife Authority, wildlife in Kidepo, Lake Mburo, Murchison Falls and Bwindi Impenetrable national parks remain vulnerable despite efforts to enhance patrols around protected areas.The authority is ensuring its rangers spend more time with the gorillas – which are the main attraction in the parks — to lessen the chance that they could wander off and be poached.
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Australia’s Melbourne Locks Down Again Due to Coronavirus
The southern Australian city of Melbourne will be placed under a six-week lockdown due to a spike of new COVID-19 cases.
Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews announced Tuesday that residents will not be allowed to leave home unless going to work, school, medical appointments or shopping for food during the lockdown, which takes effect at midnight local time Wednesday. Restaurants and cafes will be limited to takeout and delivery orders, while hair salons and entertainment venues will be closed.
The measures were first imposed in March at the height of the coronavirus outbreak. The new lockdown order, which also applies to several communities near Melbourne, was imposed after Victoria state reported a record 191 new one-day cases of COVID-19 Tuesday.
“We know we’re on the cusp of something very, very bad if we don’t get on top of this,” Andrews told reporters.
Officials in Victoria and the neighboring state of New South Wales closed their shared border Monday after Melbourne reported 127 new coronavirus cases. Melbourne officials also imposed stay-at-home orders in at least 30 neighborhoods and a “hard” lockdown of nine public housing towers, home to over 3,000 residents, where 23 COVID-19 cases have been detected among 12 households.Police have been deployed outside the entrances of the public housing towers to enforce the lockdown, which was imposed without the residents being notified, leaving many without essential supplies.
According to U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University, Australia has reported 8,755 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 106 deaths, far below many other countries.
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India, China Begin Pulling Back Troops from Disputed Border
In the first sign that India and China are deescalating tensions along their disputed border, both sides have agreed to a “disengagement process” and pulled back troops from the site of a clash that killed 20 Indian soldiers in mid June. However analysts warn that resolving differences that have flared at different contested zones in the Himalayan ranges still pose a massive challenge and even though the eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between their troops may end, the massive military deployment by the Asian rivals could continue. “It is going to be a live border for a long time because the Indian army cannot any longer afford to lower its guard,” said Bharat Karnad, a strategic affairs analyst at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. FILE – An Indian Army convoy moves along a highway leading to Ladakh, at Gagangeer in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, June 18, 2020.The decision by the Asian giants to reduce tensions in Ladakh followed a call between Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday. This is the second time the two countries have announced a disengagement — a similar step initiated in June collapsed days later when a deadly clash erupted between Indian and Chinese soldiers resulting in the worst border violence in five decades. Troops from both countries have moved back nearly two kilometers from the Galwan Valley to create a “buffer zone” and the Chinese have dismantled structures and tents erected in the area, Indian officials, who did not want to be quoted, have said. The pullback was reported after an Indian foreign ministry statement on Monday said both sides had agreed to “complete the disengagement process expeditiously” and work together to “avoid any incident in the future that could disturb peace and tranquility in border areas.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry also said progress had been made in measures for troops to disengage. However, Beijing has not given up the recent claims to the Galwan Valley, which India says is its territory. “The right and wrong of what happened at Galway valley is very clear,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Monday. “China will continue firmly safeguarding our territorial sovereignty as well as peace and tranquillity in the border areas.” Besides Galwan Valley, the two sides are embroiled in disputes along at least three other points in eastern Ladakh, where New Delhi has accused Beijing of transgressing into its territory — China has denied it. “The Chinese have built up a lot of physical facilities and structures in these areas. Are they going to give it up? I don’t think so,” says Karnad. “I am not sure there is going to be restoration of status quo ante. That is not going to happen.” FILE – A view of Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh region, July 27, 2019.Of particular concern to strategists is the Pangong Tso Lake, where India says Chinese troops have come about eight kilometers into its territory. A brawl that injured several soldiers from both sides in early May set off the current tensions between the Asian rivals and demands from New Delhi that Beijing restore the status quo along the border. There are concerns that Pangong Tso Lake will continue to remain a flashpoint. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Himalayan region of Ladakh, July 3, 2020. (India’s Press Information Bureau/Handout via Reuters)Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited troops posted in Ladakh and said his country’s commitment to peace should not be seen as a sign of weakness and the army stood ready to defend the country. Without referring to China, he also said “the era of expansionism is over.” Analysts say plummeting trust between the Asian rivals will pose a challenge to not just resolving their border disputes but also repairing their damaged ties. In an editorial, the Indian Express newspaper welcomed the de-escalation as a step in the right direction but pointed out that now the “hard slog is here: ensuring China keeps its commitment to peace and tranquillity in the border area.”
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UN Drone Strike Report Calls US Attack on Iranian General ‘Arbitrary Killing’
As part of a new report on targeted killings using drones, a U.N. human rights investigator says a January U.S. strike that killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was an “arbitrary killing,” and that Iran’s retaliatory missile attack was not justified. “No evidence has been provided that General Soleimani specifically was planning an imminent attack against U.S. interests, particularly in Iraq, for which immediate action was necessary and would have been justified,” said Agnes Callamard, special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, in her report to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The strike took place as Soleimani’s convoy was leaving the airport in Baghdad, and it also killed a senior Iraqi military official and four members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. The United States said in a report to the U.N. Security Council that its forces carried out the strike in self-defense “in response to an escalating series of armed attacks in recent months” by Iran. But Callamard said the U.S. explanation “fails to describe even one ongoing attack” and that U.S. officials were “remarkably vague and inconsequential as far as a possible imminent threat is concerned.” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said days after the strike that Soleimani had planned a “broad, large-scale attack against American interests, and those attacks were imminent.” Callamard said because the attack was carried out without Iraq’s consent, it amounted to a violation of the country’s sovereignty. “What is most telling is the failure of the U.S. to even address the rights of Iraq and explain, and provide evidence for, its use of force against the country and its citizens,” she wrote. “Until such an explanation is made, the conclusion must be that the strike is an act of aggression against Iraq, and the killing of its citizens and of non-citizens on its territory was unlawful and arbitrary under international law.” Callamard is due to go before the Human Rights Council to present her findings on Thursday. The United States withdrew from the council in 2018. Iran responded to Soleimani’s killing by launching missiles at two Iraqi bases housing U.S. service members. That attack injured more than 100 U.S. military personnel. As with the U.S. strike, Callamard cited Iran’s filing to the Security Council in which it claimed to have acted in self-defense. She said Iran “made no reference to an imminent or ongoing armed attack by the U.S.” and that the strike against Soleimani “did not justify Iran’s subsequent actions.” Callamard expressed concerns more broadly about the use of drones possessed by dozens of countries and that “the vast majority of targeted killings by drones are subjected to little public scrutiny at either national or international levels.” She said “mistakes are inevitable” in identifying and accurately striking intended targets, and that even when missiles hit their target, “the evidence shows that frequently many more people die.” Callamard writes that those casualties may amount to violations of international humanitarian law. She calls for the United Nations and member countries to develop strong standards for transparency, oversight and accountability, to use arms control measures to control the proliferation of drones around the world, and to investigate allegations of unlawful deaths in drone strikes. Callamard also suggested the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights produce a yearly report that tracks drone strikes and casualties for members to debate at the Human Rights Council.
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Kenya President Relaxes Restrictions on Interstate Travel Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s order allowing travel in and out of Nairobi, Mombasa and Mandera counties went into effect early Tuesday morning. Kenyatta said, the relaxing of travel restrictions should not be taken lightly, and people should avoid reckless behavior. Kenyatta also announced the resumption of international flights beginning August 1, as the country gradually reopens. Kenya’s leader extended the nationwide 9 pm to 4 am curfew 30 days, with a warning if the rate of the outbreak worsens, Kenya may return to more stringent lockdown restrictions.Kenya has recorded more than 8,000 coronavirus cases and 164 deaths.
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US Grapples With Coronavirus Surge
With the number of new confirmed coronavirus cases each day in the United States about double the levels of a month ago, the country’s top infectious disease expert is calling the state of the outbreak “really not good.” In an online conference call Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cited the spike in cases after U.S. states lifted many restrictions put in place to try to stop the spread of the disease. He compared the situation to what is happening in Europe, where countries have seen some increases in cases following reopenings, but those occurred after a huge drop from the levels seen at the peak of the outbreak. “We went up, never came down to baseline, and now we’re surging back up. So it’s a serious situation that we have to address immediately,” Fauci said. The number of confirmed cases has been rising in about 40 of the 50 U.S. states, with a higher percentage of tests coming back positive and hospital systems warning of beds filling up. In a letter Monday, three top U.S. medical organizations – the American Medical Association, American Nurses Association and American Hospital Association – urged Americans to wear masks, observe social distancing guidelines and wash their hands. The groups called the coronavirus outbreak “the worst public health crisis in generations” and said the preventive steps backed by health officials months ago “were too quickly abandoned.” “We are not powerless in this public health crisis, and we can defeat it in the same way we defeated previous threats to public health — by allowing science and evidence to shape our decisions and inform our actions,” the letter said. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows reiterated Monday in an interview with the cable news network Fox News that the Trump administration is leaving decisions on coronavirus restrictions up to state and local leaders instead of the federal government.Sun seekers gather at Clearwater Beach, which remains open despite high numbers of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in the state, on Independence Day in Clearwater, Florida, July 4, 2020.“When we look at masks and the wearing of masks, that’s done on a location basis, when you can’t have social distancing, but certainly a national mandate is not in order,” Meadows said. “We’re allowing governors and mayors to weigh in on that.” In Florida, one of the states seeing a spike with about 10,000 new daily cases in recent days, officials in the largest county ordered restaurants and gyms to close once again. Beaches, which were closed for the July 4 holiday weekend, are being allowed to reopen Tuesday. Arizona reversed some of its lifting of restrictions as cases there spiked last week, and on Monday the Department of Health Services reported the state’s total case count had surpassed 100,000. More than 62,000 of the confirmed cases involved people younger than 44 years old. The governor of West Virginia responded to a 30% increase in cases during the past week with an order Monday requiring everyone over the age of 9 to wear a mask indoors when social distancing is not possible. Nationwide, the United States has more than 2.9 million confirmed cases with 130,000 deaths, both figures by far the highest in the world.
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Пси фсб викрали в Києві людину. Чому українські спецслужби аналогічно не ведуть себе в путляндії?
Пси фсб викрали в Києві людину. Чому українські спецслужби аналогічно не ведуть себе в путляндії?
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Днями фсбшники в центрі Києва викрали Сергія Ткаченка, якого нещодавно в путляндії було оголошено у розшук. Чоловік раніше звертався до ОГПУ, СБУ та поліції та повідомляв, що на нього можуть напасти, але там ніяк на це не відреагували. Немає реакції від держави і зараз.
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Опущенный карлик пукин бредит в бункере: болезнь прогрессирует
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At Least 166 Killed in Ethiopia After Week of Violence
Widespread violence in the past week in Ethiopia following the shooting death of a popular Oromo singer has killed at least 166 people, officials said Monday. Police said about 2,000 people have been arrested in Oromia Regional State, including some senior political leaders of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and their supporters, after Hachalu Hundessa was killed June 29 by unidentified attackers. People in other areas of the Oromia region told VOA that unidentified attackers targeted people not of Oromos ethnicity, although some ethnic Oromos were also attacked. The survivors told VOA the attackers, who included gunmen, also burned and stoned some victims. Eyewitnesses told VOA that businesses and private homes had been looted and burned, and historical sites destroyed.Girma Gelan, deputy commissioner of the Federal Police, said 156 people, including 145 civilians and 11 members of the security forces, had been killed since the violence began a week ago. Getu Argaw, police commissioner of Addis Ababa, said 10 people, including eight civilians and two security force members, had been killed. About 20 victims in Dherra town of Arsi Zone in Oromia, about 115 kilometers (72 miles) east of the capital, Addis Ababa, told VOA they witnessed family members being killed, and their properties burned. The victims and eyewitnesses sought shelter in a church in Dherra. Arsi Zone administrator Jemal Aleyu told VOA that 36 people, including two law enforcement officials, were killed in his region. The killings “should never happen again in a community that lived together for years, and people responsible for the killings and the destruction were under police custody awaiting due process,” Aleyu said.In this image taken from OBN video, the funeral for Ethiopia singer Hachalu Hundessa takes place in Ambo, Ethiopia, Thursday July 2, 2020.Meanwhile, a VOA reporter said relative calm has been restored, and some daily activities have resumed in the Western Oromia towns and villages. Officials said that while protesters in the area attacked government facilities and some private businesses in the past few days, no ethnic-centered attack nor serious damages to properties have been reported. The officials also said some suspects had been captured and are in custody. Getachew Balcha, Oromia regional government spokesman, and Negussu Tilahun, spokesman for the prime minister’s office, confirmed the attacks in several towns in the Oromia region. They blamed the assaults on “a group that is trying to instigate violence and clashes between two ethnic groups and destabilize the country as a whole.” The government has deployed federal police and defense forces in the hot spot areas, and further killings have been stopped, Balcha and Tilahun said.
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At Least 50 Dead in Japanese Natural Disaster
At least 50 people on the southwestern island of Kyushu are dead after three days of torrential rains, floods and mudslides. The casualties include 14 residents of a nursing home for the elderly in Kumamoto, the region which has sustained the worst effects of the disaster. The nursing home was swamped by waters from the nearby Kuma River that overran its embankment, leaving residents who were wheelchair-bound trapped on the ground and unable to reach higher ground. At least a dozen people are missing. The disaster has washed out bridges and roads, prompting emergency crews to sail down flooded streets on rafts and inflatable boats to rescue residents trapped in their homes. Some residents were also rescued from the rooftops of their inundated homes by helicopter. Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters Sunday that more than 40,000 members of the Self-Defense Force, along with local emergency first responders, were involved in search-and-rescue missions in Kyushu. More than a million people have been ordered to evacuate the Kyushu region.
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