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Caretaker prime minister Stefan Löfven will face the Sweden's parliament, which will vote on Wednesday to decide if the can lead a new government.
Swedish caretaker PM Löfven faces parliament vote to form new govt
STOCKHOLM — Sweden's parliament will vote on Wednesday to decide if the caretaker prime minister Stefan Löfven can lead a new government.Löfven moved a step closer to forming a coalition after the country’s parliamentary speaker said the former PM had enough backing to form a two-party Cabinet.The leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party told speaker Andreas Norlén that he could find the necessary support in the 349-seat Riksdag.A vote in parliament on his government is set for Wednesday, and Löfven is then expected to present his government on Friday."Stefan Löfven has a solution that can be tolerated by the Riksdag,” Norlén told a news conference on Monday. "I will therefore appoint him as a prime ministerial candidate.”Two groups in Sweden's...
July 07, 2021

Swedish caretaker PM Löfven faces parliament vote to form new govt

File photo of Dutch crime reporter Peter de Vries who was shot in Amsterdam on Tuesday.
Dutch crime reporter de Vries wounded in shooting in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch crime reporter who had been the target of death threats was shot and badly injured in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening.Peter R de Vries, widely-known and praised for his investigative work on the Dutch criminal underworld, was shot in the capital as he left a television studio where he had appeared as a guest.Police said three people were arrested — two in a car on a motorway and one in Amsterdam.According to Amsterdam's police chief, one of those arrested is “probably” the suspected shooter. He didn’t give further information on the arrests or a possible motive for the crime.Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the shooting was “shocking and inconceivable”.“It is an attack on a courageous journalist and therefore an attack on the freedom of...
July 07, 2021

Dutch crime reporter de Vries wounded in shooting in Amsterdam

Flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris on April 15, 2019.
Health danger from Notre-Dame fire kept from public, lawsuit claims
PARIS — Parisian authorities are facing legal action over the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral, due to the release of harmful fumes from lead destroyed in the fire.A number of people filed a lawsuit on Tuesday regarding the health impact of the fire which destroyed the roof and spire of the iconic landmark in central Paris on April 15, 2019.AFP have seen documents filed by the plaintiffs, which include the CGT-Paris trade union, the Henri Pézerat association and private individuals."More than 400 tons of lead were destroyed during the fire, partly melted or pulverized into micro-particles, which were disseminated in the atmosphere," the complaint reads.They say the danger to health from this is not in doubt, with reports from official bodies studying pollution supporting...
July 07, 2021

Health danger from Notre-Dame fire kept from public, lawsuit claims

The then London mayor Sadiq Khan seen in this file photo paying tribute to those that died on 7/7 in London attacks. — courtesy PA
London to commemorate 16 years since the 7/7 bombings of 2005
LONDON — In London's Hyde Park, 52 stainless steel pillars stand together in four clusters in the southeastern corner of the 350-acre site.Each of the pillars represents one person who died, while each cluster symbolizes one of the four locations where the bombs went off on July 7, 2005.Sixteen years on, people still stumble across the memorial, which was erected in 2009, without realizing at first that it is dedicated to what became known as the 7/7 attacks.The terrorist bombing of three Underground stations and a double-decker bus constituted the worst attack on London since World War II, and remains the worst individual terrorist barbarity Britain has known.As well as those killed, several hundred more people were injured and many remain maimed for life. The four bombers also...
July 07, 2021

London to commemorate 16 years since the 7/7 bombings of 2005

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine in Ethiopia. — courtesy UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye
Equitable distribution of vaccines, equipment only way out of pandemic: WHO chief
GENEVA — Equitable distribution of equipment and medicines to fight COVID-19 is the only way out of the global crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in remarks to a meeting of the advisory group making the case for investing in these tools.Briefing the ACT Accelerator Facilitation Council, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that although countries have made progress in controlling the pandemic, it remains in a very dangerous phase.“Our only way out is to support countries in the equitable distribution of PPE (personal protective equipment), tests, treatments and vaccines. It is not rocket science, nor charity. It is smart public health and in everyone’s best interest,” he said.‘Two-track pandemic’ The Council, co-chaired by...
July 06, 2021

Equitable distribution of vaccines, equipment only way out of pandemic: WHO chief

Elizabeth Throssell, spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). — courtesy UN News/Daniel Johnson
OHCHR voices deep concern over reported deaths of protesters in Kingdom of Eswatini
GENEVA — The eruption of violence in the Kingdom of Eswatini in recent days is “deeply concerning”, amid reports that dozens of people have been killed or injured during protests calling for democratic reforms, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.Unrest first began in the last absolute monarchy in Africa, in May, when students took to the streets to call for accountability for the death of a 25-year-old law student, allegedly at the hands of the police.In late June, these protests grew into daily pro-democracy marches in several locations around the Kingdom, with protesters voicing deep-seated political and economic grievances, said OHCHR, in the regular briefing for reporters at the UN in Geneva.Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, gained independence 53 years ago,...
July 06, 2021

OHCHR voices deep concern over reported deaths of protesters in Kingdom of Eswatini

The plane, a Soviet-designed Antonov AN-26, was carrying 22 passengers and six crew members when it disappeared from radar on the peninsula of Kamchatka. — Courtesy file photo
Wreckage of missing Russian airliner found in country's far-east
MOSCOW — Russian officials say they have found the wreckage of an airliner that went missing in the far east of the country on Tuesday. The plane, a Soviet-designed Antonov AN-26, was carrying 22 passengers and six crew members when it disappeared from radar on the peninsula of Kamchatka. Authorities say they have found debris from the plane about five kilometers away from the runway where it was due to land. According to Russian media, there were no survivors of the crash. The head of the local government in Palana, Olga Mokhireva, was aboard the flight, the Kamchatka government has said. "Rescuers have found debris from the aircraft, their work made difficult by the geography of the terrain," Russia's air transport agency Rosaviatsia said in a statement sent to AFP.t...
July 06, 2021

Wreckage of missing Russian airliner found in country's far-east

‏The agreement, which was signed remotely by the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Lt. Gen. Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Georgia's Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri, aims to strengthen cooperation between the two countries and develop bilateral relations in the security and policing fields, especially in enhancing traffic safety, combating crime in all its forms. — WAM photo
UAE, Georgia sign cooperation agreement to enhance security collaboration
ABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with Georgia to step up cooperation between the two countries in the fields of security and combating crime, the UAE's official news agency WAM reported on Tuesday. ‏The agreement, which was signed remotely by the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Lt. Gen. Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan and Georgia's Minister of Internal Affairs Vakhtang Gomelauri, aims to strengthen cooperation between the two countries and develop bilateral relations in the security and policing fields, especially in enhancing traffic safety, combating crime in all its forms.It also seeks to facilitate the exchange of experiences in utilizing modern technologies and artificial intelligence to enhance police work. — SG
July 06, 2021

UAE, Georgia sign cooperation agreement to enhance security collaboration

File photo of a Soviet-designed Antonov AN-26 plane, the type of plane of the Russian airliner that disappeared from radar on Tuesday on the Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka.
Russian airliner goes missing in country's far-east
MOSCOW — A Russian airliner carrying around 20 passengers and six crew members disappeared from radar on Tuesday on the Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said.The plane, a Soviet-designed Antonov AN-26, was flying from the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski to the small coastal town of Palana when it stopped transmitting, Valentina Glazova, a spokeswoman for the regional transport prosecutor's office, told AFP.She said the plane was carrying 23 passengers and six crew members, with Russian news agencies quoting local officials saying 28 people including six crew members were on board."Search and rescue efforts are under way," Glazova added. "All we know at the moment is that contact with the plane has been lost and it has not landed.Two...
July 06, 2021

Russian airliner goes missing in country's far-east

Lambda accounts for nearly 82% of the coronavirus case samples reported during May and June, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). It is especially widespread across South America, having first appeared in Peru in August last year.
Lambda — latest COVID variant flagged by the WHO
GENEVA — The latest variant to be highlighted by the World Health Organization, named Lambda, has now been found in at least 27 different countries.It is especially widespread across South America, having first appeared in Peru in August last year, and is accounting for more and more cases in these countries.Having found its way to Europe, where there is already an ongoing battle against the Delta variant, due to lack of study it is still unclear how major a cause of concern it might be.It is not yet listed as a ‘variant of concern’, rather a ‘variant of interest’ by the WHO, meaning it has been identified as causing transmission or detected in multiple countries.Lambda accounts for nearly 82% of the coronavirus case samples reported during May and June, according to the Pan...
July 06, 2021

Lambda — latest COVID variant flagged by the WHO

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