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News in brief u Thousands Fire damages in Thai of mainly young youth take to and black-clad Thai protesters street in pro- converged democracy at Bangkok’s , arson probe launched protest Democracy Monument as the city’s largest and rowdiest anti-government protest in years stretched deep into the night. Thailand, a kingdom whose “everything was in order last rambunctious politics is defined by coups and often deadly street protests, is facing an The blaze destroyed night,” and that “a very close unprecedented economic shock due to the coronavirus pandemic. With the economy stained• glass windows inspection was made before it in freefall, anger is boiling against a government stacked with elderly former generals closed, like every other evening.” and supporters of the royalist establishment. and the grand organ Ferlay played down any com- parison with the 1972 blaze or u A drug dealer convicted of murdering five people, including two at the Saint-Pierre-et- young girls, was executed by lethal injection, the third federal inmate to Saint-Paul cathedral, with Notre-Dame, which caught fire during repair work in April be put to death in the United States this week. Dustin Lee Honken, 52, of Britt, which dates from last year. Iowa, was pronounced dead at 4:36 pm (2036 GMT) at Terre Haute prison in the the 15th Century midwest state of Indiana, the Justice Department said. Honken was convicted in Reinforced roof Iowa in 2004 of the 1993 murders of two drug dealers who became government informants and were going to testify about his methamphetamine operation. AFP | Much of Notre-Dame’s roof and wooden structure was de- u John Lewis, the US fire broke out in three stroyed, its steeple collapsed civil rights warrior who places at the gothic ca- and fumes containing toxic marched with Martin congressman thedral of Nantes in molten lead billowed into the Luther King Jr and was John Lewis Awestern France yesterday, de- air. nearly killed in police dead at 80 stroying stained glass windows Another church in Nantes beatings before serving and the grand organ and spark- -- the Basilica of St Donatian for decades as a US congressman, died late Friday aged 80. The African-American icon spent his life getting into ing an arson investigation. Firemen battle blaze at Nantes cathedral in western France and St Rogatian -- was struck Catholic officials mourned by a fire in 2015 that destroyed what he liked to call “good trouble” -- the confrontations necessary to improve the loss of priceless artefacts in three different places, so a organ console had “completely three-quarters of its roof. the American democracy by ending discrimination and racial injustice. and paintings as well as the 17th judicial investigation for arson disappeared”, describing it as “I would like to stress that u The leader of the Taliban has century organ -- a star attraction was immediately opened. “an unimaginable loss”. following the 1972 fire, the roof Taliban reshuffled his team of negotiators of the cathedral. “When we arrive at a place “The console of the choir was redone with concrete rein- reshuffle ahead of peace talks with the Afghan Regional fire chief Laurent where a fire has taken place, organ has gone up in smoke forcement,” Ferlay said. negotiators government, adding four close aides to Ferlay however said the dam- when you see three separate along with the adjoining wood- Aside from the destroyed or- the group. sources in the movement said. Mullah age was not comparable to last fire outbreaks, it’s a question en choir stalls. Original stained gan, officials said other items ahead of Haibatullah Akhundzada made the appointments year’s devastating blaze at No- of common sense, you open an glass windows behind the great lost included a painting by 19th Afghan talks to strengthen his control over the team, a Taliban tre-Dame cathedral in Paris. investigation,” Sennes told AFP. organ have all shattered,” he century artist Hippolyte Flan- commander, based at an unknown location in Pakistan. Passers-by saw flames behind The prosecutor said inves- said. drin and stained glass windows u A young man was shot to death in a fishing village in the rosette of the Cathedral of tigators had found no sign of While the blaze was still rag- on the facade, some of which Venezuela during a protest over gasoline rationing, opposition St Peter and St Paul and alerted a break-in, but noted that one ing, President Emmanuel Ma- contained remnants of 16th cen- deputies and a local human rights group said. Jose Luis Albornoz, 19, died emergency services a little be- fire has started near the organ, cron tweeted support for “our tury glass. Thursday of a shot to the chest allegedly fired by a member of the National Guard, fore 08:00 am (0600 GMT). while the other two were at the firefighters who are taking all Culture Minister Roselyne which was clearing the protest on Toas Island in northwestern Zulia state, said Roughly 100 firefighters other end of the cathedral. kinds of risks to save this gothic Bachelot called the destruction Avilio Troconiz, an opposition deputy. rushed to the scene and man- jewel”. of Flandrin’s painting of Saint aged to save the structure, built ‘An unimaginable loss’ Prime Minister Jean Castex Clair healing the blind “a pain- u Tens of thousands of people between the 15th and 19th cen- Catholic official Father Fran- later inspected the damage ful loss”. took to the streets in Russia’s Far turies, Ferlay said. cois Renaud, who oversees the along with the French ministers The organ dated back to 1621 East in a rare show of defiance Nantes prosecutor Pierre cathedral, surveyed the damage of the interior and culture. and had undergone five resto- against the Kremlin as they Sennes said the fire had started with firemen and told AFP the He set the investigation and rations since -- the latest one protested the arrest of a popular subsequent reconstruction as in 1971. governor. The huge rallies in the city of priorities, saying “the state During the 18th century rev- Khabarovsk on the border with China present a growing headache for the Kremlin, This is not the first fire at the will play a major role” in the olutionary period, authorities observers say, and come after President Vladimir Putin this month oversaw a cathedral. It was damaged by latter. had wanted to melt down its controversial vote that allows him to extend his hold on power until 2036. Allied bombing in 1944, during The building was last hit by pipes for scrap, but the organ- u The black boxes of a Ukrainian passenger plane Iran forces WWII, and then in 1972 its roof fire in 1972 and its roof took ist argued it could instead be mistakenly shot down in January have arrived in France, KNOW WHAT more than 13 years to repair. used for “revolutionary cere- French air investigators said. A source at France’s Bureau for Enquiry was largely destroyed Cathedral rector Father monies”, according to historian and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said the boxes had arrived and would Hubert Champenois said Paul Chopelin. be at the agency from Monday. A 20-member international team would examine the boxes.

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