People shout a slogan “Liberation (from prison)” to show solidarity with prisoners and others throw balloons with the colors of the ancient Belarusian national flag in the sky in a detention center an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus, on Tuesday 18 August 2020.
Sergei Grits / AP
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For a moment, the belarusian factory staff continued their strike to protest the debatable re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko for his sixth term.The staff of the tractor factory, once trusted supporters, joined through other state-controlled corporations and factories on strike on Tuesday.The measures came in the most sensible of the 10 consecutive days of protests calling on the authoritarian leader known as “Europe’s last dictator” to resign in an election they said was rigged.
Warning of an escalation of the political crisis in a phone call on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to interfere in Belarus’s internal affairs.
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On Tuesday, a UN-backed court convicted a member of the militant organization Hezbollah and acquitted three others of his involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.Five counts similar to his involvement in the suicide bombing.Hariri.” The verdict, which follows a years-long investigation, comes at a difficult time for Lebanon, following a devastating explosion on 4 August in Beirut.
And Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, the captain of the shipment that spilled tons of oil off the coast of Mauritius, was arrested on Tuesday.Nandeshwar, a 58-year-old Indian citizen accused of endangering navigation protection, police said.he began cutting the two pieces of the stranded Japanese shipment, taking them out into the sea so that they would sink with the maximum of the shipment that is expected to be dragged from the coral reef and the maximum probably taken to India to be recovered.
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Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital at the Government of Taiwan, yuan Executive Building, Taiwan, November 8, 2017.
Courtesy of Yingjing Li / Reuters
Taiwan has kept its COVID-19 figures low compared to other countries: it has recorded fewer than 500 cases and seven deaths.Much of this good fortune has been attributed to Taiwan’s technology technique, led through government virtual minister Audrey Tang.how Taiwan uses crowdsourcing, transparency and acceptance of its citizens to manage the virus.
“Well, the ultimate vital generation is soap and alcohol for hands.But in Taiwan, we see democracy itself as a generation.And the main objective of the pandemic effort is to get others to perceive science and epidemiology so that others can innovate and wash their hands.More vigorously, use a mask to remind you to keep your hands unwashed away from your faces and make sure the pharmacy has enough supply.”
Emilio Estefan, vice president of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission, left, and actress Eva Longoria, laughed at a news convention on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 5, 2011, where the National Museum of Latin American is located.
Alex Brandon / AP
Lawmakers have been around the museum for decades and now the proposal is moving forward in Congress.
In case you missed it, Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel added something else to her belt last weekend when she finished her 35th circular through the English Channel, breaking the men’s record in the number of crosses across the Channel.of the coronvirus, she controlled France’s quarantine regulations after the coast guard gave her the green light.
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Two women smoke cigarettes in a bar as pedestrians walk upside down beyond Pamplona in northern Spain on August 17, 2020.The Spanish government has announced new restrictions, adding one about smoking in public places, to save you COVID-19.
Alvaro Barrientos / AP
Some of the first studies on COVID-19 immunity are coming out, the immunologist Marion Pepper explains what is known about immunity and what scientists do not yet understand, and getting the effects of this year’s school exams the coronavirus pandemic was never going to be easy Adolescents in Britain and across Europe find it confusing and not happy.And demonstrators in Belarus need to be replaced and have turned to soviet-era rock band Kino for a protest anthem.
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