Huge crowds turned out in Paris on Saturday as riot police attempted to corral the seemingly endless columns of protesters filling the capital’s main thoroughfares. Drumming, chanting and exploding firecrackers could be heard in a Ruptly livestream of the massive demonstration. The protesters could be heard shouting “Liberty!” as they …
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“We decided to declare the State of Siege [in] the whole country,” Joseph said in a televised address broadcast on national television following an emergency meeting of Haiti’s Council of Ministers. “We don’t want the country to plunge into chaos,” he added. A declaration of a state of siege is …
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“The Court recognizes that the [Covid-19] pandemic is a serious public health crisis that has presented unprecedented challenges for public health officials and the nation as a whole,” Judge Dabney L. Friedrich wrote in her opinion on Wednesday. However, the moratorium is “unambiguously foreclosed by the plain language of the …
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The police joked on Twitter that when they used a tank in a video clip to promote the policy earlier this year they couldn’t have imagined that someone would take the message so literally. But a man from the northern Hradec Kralove region did confess to the police that he …
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French authorities are considering placing the country in a new lockdown as the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has passed the 3 million mark. Speaking to Radio Classique, French European Affairs minister Clement Beaune said the government is considering different options to tackle the spread. “Nothing has yet been decided. …
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The strongest of over half a dozen jolts struck South Shetland Islands some 216 kilometers northeast of Chile’s O’Higgins scientific base at 8:36pm, while another 5.8 quake shook the Chile-Argentina border region close to the capital Santiago around 30 minutes later. While the warning was only meant for the coastal regions …
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British couples who don’t live together have once again been banned from bonking by London’s coronavirus restrictions, which – as of Friday – forbid individuals living in “high risk” Tiers Two and Three regions from staying overnight at the house of someone outside their “bubble.” Unlike similar regulations rolled out …
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Police and sheriffs departments in at least Minnesota, Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina and Pennsylvania have noted issues with their emergency call systems on Monday, directing residents to use alternative numbers while they work to correct the issue, allegedly caused by a technical failure in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services. No …
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Kay Burley of Sky News asked Raab about the arsenal of measures the government is prepared to enact to fight Covid-19. Raab replied: “The reality is they will be more intrusive or could end up in a national lockdown,” but “that is what we want to avoid.” When asked again …
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Curious overlay of events: first, the hype over unfortunate remarks of a philologist of the Russian language, then the administrative bustle of the rector of the HSE, who tried to prohibit teachers to speak out on urgent social themes. Now Putin on the cave Russophobia said. What follows from all …
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