IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO MY TODAY 618 1812 1928 1940 QUOTE FATHER WAS; IT MATTERS WHO I IN OF THE REMEMBER HE WAS Coronation of the Chinese governor Li War of 1812 begins as American aviator Amelia Ear- Winston Churchill’s “this was their DAY HISTORY Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new US declares war against hart becomes the 1st woman to finest hour” speech urging persever- ANNE SEXTON Emperor of China, initiating three centu- Britain fly across the Atlantic Ocean ance during Battle of Britain deliv- FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021 ries of the Tang Dynasty’s rule over China landing at Burry Port, Wales ered to British House of Commons

News in brief Texas OKs public gun- US Congress votes to make u The House of Doctors ‘killed’ Maradona via Representatives Juneteenth, end of slavery, a holiday First crew boards new China carrying without permit TOP voted overwhelmingly to create a federal negligence, says nurse’s lawyer holiday commemorating Juneteenth, Reuters | London which until now has been the unofficial TWEETS4 fete marking the end of slavery in the space station in historic mission United States. The measure cleared the lawyer for a nurse under Senate by unanimous consent Tuesday after Ainvestigation in the death 01 a Republican in the chamber ended his of Argentine football great Die- objection. With the House passing it in a 415- go Maradona said Wednesday KNOW WHAT Spacecraft lifted off yesterday morning from northwest China further boosting the 14 vote, the bill now heads to President Joe Biden for his signature. that doctors killed him through negligence. country’s space programme to rival the US u A former mayor “They killed Diego,” attorney in northern Mexico has Ex-mayor jailed for 8 years over Rodolfo Baque told reporters Rodolfo Baque said been condemned to eight Mexican journalist’s murder after his client, nurse Dahiana Maradona was being years in prison for his involvement in the China launches Gisela Madrid, was questioned 0% of all adults across 2017 murder of journalist Miroslava Breach, treated for heart trou- • by prosecutors. Shenzhou-12 in first the UK have now re- prosecutors said. A court in Chihuahua state ble but at the same At this current stage, 8 Maradona died of a heart at- crewed mission since 2016 A clerk hands a customer an AR-15 style rifle from TPM Arms LLC on display handed down the sentence on Tuesday to Hugo time was on psychi- we haven’t considered ceived at least one dose tack last November at the age for sale in Costa Mesa, California of the vaccine. Let’s keep Amed Shultz, the ex-mayor of Chinipas who atric medication that the participation of of 60, weeks after undergoing AFP | Huston going. Please book your was arrested in December. He was ordered to Reuters | Beijing international astronauts, brain surgery for a blood clot. sped up his heart rate jabs when you are eligi- pay damages and make a public apology to the Madrid, 36, is one of seven but their future overnor Greg Abbott ble to do so. victim’s family for his role as an accomplice, the people under investigation for hree Chinese astronauts participation will be signed into law a bill that @BorisJohnson prosecutor’s office said in a statement. G This is something that manslaughter after a board of to have found Maradona with yesterday flew to a space guaranteed. I’m aware allows Texans to carry firearms 20 other states have Myanmar ethnic group pledges to u A Myanmar experts looking into Marado- A five-metre statue of Diego Maradona no signs of life and had tried to station in China’s first that many countries have in public without a permit, the adopted and it’s time ethnic political T na’s death found he had re - outside the Estadio Unico Madre de revive him, she said in a previ- crewed mission since 2016, ex- expressed their wish in latest in a series of measures investigate alleged killing of 25 labourers group that has for Texas to adopt it, ceived inadequate care and Ciudades stadium in Santiago del ous witness statement. panding the country’s already this regard expanding gun rights in con- too been fighting the army in the east of was abandoned to his fate for a Estero, Argentina On Monday, Maradona’s growing near-Earth presence servative US states. the country has pledged to investigate ZHOU JIANPING, CHIEF DESIGNER OF CHINA’S TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT “prolonged, agonizing period.” nighttime nurse Ricardo Almi- and challenging US leadership in MANNED SPACE PROGRAMME The law, which was passed allegations by the junta that its forces Baque insisted it was the doc- ron, 37, was the first of the seven orbital space. in the Republican-dominat- 02 killed 25 construction workers after tors treating Maradona while to be questioned by prosecu- The astronauts rode to Tianhe - tough questions. ed state Senate and House of dio station WBAP in April. abducting a group of 47 people last he recovered from the brain In the end, there were tors. the module that will be the living “As long as we have him in our Representatives last month, But opponents, including month. Ethnic conflicts in Myanmar’s operation, not his client, who Other medical staff involved quarters of China’s completed The Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and three hearts, we have nothing to fear,” will allow anyone 21 years or state and national Democrats, borderlands have flared since a military coup many warning signs astronauts, takes off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center were to blame for the soccer that Maradona was in caring for Maradona will be space station - on Shenzhou-12, or fellow astronaut Wang Yaping, older who is not barred from say more lenient rules on guns on Feb.1, and this week media controlled legend’s death. questioned by prosecutors over “Divine Vessel”. The crew board- their future participation will be mission to the space station will who is part of the Shenzhou-12 possessing a firearm to carry could lead to more violence. by the junta reported that fighters belonging to the Karen National Defence He said Maradona was being going to die, give or the next two weeks. ed the module, where they will guaranteed,” said Zhou Jianping, last six months. backup team, told state media one in public without a permit. They cited mass shootings Organisation (KNDO) had committed the atrocity. treated for heart trouble but at take a day. And none A judge will decide whether live for three months, the longest chief designer of China’s manned Barred by US law from working previously. HB1927 argues that both in the state’s capital Austin last he fact that projected of the doctors did NASA u An assailant Pro-Kurdish party office the same time was on psychiat- the matter should go to trial stay in low-Earth orbit by any space programme. with and by extension on “In our crew, elder brother Nie the United States and Texas week that left one person dead Teconomic growth is stormed a local office ric medication that sped up his anything to prevent it in a process expected to last Chinese national. “I’m aware that many countries the ISS, China has spent the past is like the needle that stills the constitutions allow citizens to and 13 injured and a 2019 gun near a 40-year high isn’t stormed, employee killed in Turkey of Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish heart rate. RODOLFO BAQUE months, or even years. China’s space station, due to have expressed their wish in this decade developing technologies sea,” she said. bear arms and that therefore massacre at a Walmart in El an accident — it’s because party and killed a woman who works for Also, Maradona fell while in Maradona had battled co - be finished by end-2022, will be regard,” Zhou told foreign report- to build its own space station, Liu Boming, like Nie, was from there should be fewer barri- Paso in which 23 people were our plans are working. it in the western city of Izmir, the local the hospital, and when Madrid following a complaint filed by caine and alcohol addiction. the only alternative to the two- ers at the Shenzhou launch site in addition to planning missions the first batch of astronauts se- ers to being able to carry such killed and 23 others injured. @POTUS governor’s office and the party said. A asked to have a CAT scan done two of Maradona’s five children The former Boca Juniors, decade-old, US-led International in northwestern Gansu province. to the moon, Mars and other lected in the 1990s for China’s weapons. US Representative from Tex- statement by the Izmir governor’s office said on him, an aide to Maradona against neurosurgeon Leopoldo Barcelona and Napoli star was Space Station (ISS), which may be Shenzhou-12 is the third of planets. space programme. Proponents of the law, as Veronica Escobar said in the assailant, a former health worker born in refused, arguing that if the press Luque, whom they blame for suffering from liver, kidney and retired in 2024. 11 missions - four of which will China plans to allow Hong Known for his intellect, Liu is which will go into effect Sep- a tweet Wednesday that by 1994, stormed the Peoples’ Democratic Party found out it would look bad, their father’s deteriorating con- cardiovascular disorders when If the ISS - backed mainly by be crewed - needed to complete Kong astronauts to join future often addressed by his colleagues tember 1, call such a measure signing the bill Abbott “has (HDP) office and shot Deniz Poyraz. Baque said. dition after the brain operation. he died. the United States, Russia, Japan, China’s first full-fledged space missions, Zhou also said. as “Little Zhuge”, the renowned constitutional carry. chosen to betray the victims “In the end, there were many A panel of 20 medical experts Maradona is an idol to mil- Europe and Canada - is decom- station. Construction began in military strategist who lived in Abbott is set to preside over of gun violence.” u Sweden’s Left Party said it would seek support to ‘First baton’ bring a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Stefan warning signs that Maradona convened by Argentina’s public lions of Argentines after he missioned, China would be the April with the launch of Tianhe, China two millennia ago. a ceremonial signing of the law “Despite overwhelming sup- Lofven over plans to ease rent control rules for newly was going to die, give or take a prosecutor said last month that inspired the South American operator of the only active space a cylinder-like module slightly “This will be the first crewed On the Shenzhou-7 mission in yesterday morning, according port for gun violence preven- built apartments. “We are now seeking support for a vote day. And none of the doctors did Maradona’s treatment was rife country to only their second station. That would potentially bigger than a city bus. flight in the space station (con- 2008, Liu famously used a crow- to the Texas Tribune newspa- tion legislation, Republicans, 03 of no-confidence,” Left Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar told anything to prevent it,” Baque with “deficiencies and irregu- World Cup triumph in 1986. give it greater power in shaping The Shenzhou-12 astronauts struction) phase, and I’m lucky to bar to pry open the hatch after it per. Abbott previously indi- led by a cowardly governor, are reporters during a news conference. The Left Party needs the said during a break in the inter- larities” and the medical team His death shocked fans future norms and regulations Nie Haisheng, 56, Liu Boming, be able to have the ‘first baton’,” refused to open. cated he would sign the bill if more interested in grovelling support of at least one other party to force a vote of no-confidence. A vote of no- rogation of Madrid, which went had left his survival “to fate.” around the world, and tens of for near-Earth space, which is 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, will Nie told reporters a day before Former air force pilot Tang it passed the state’s legislative for the gun lobby’s attention confidence would require a majority in the 349-seat parliament to pass. on for more than eight hours. If found guilty, the seven, thousands queued to file past already teeming with Chinese test out technologies on Tianhe the launch. Hongbo, 45, was from a later houses. than they are in preventing Madrid was Maradona’s day- who are barred from leaving his coffin, draped in the Argen- satellites. including its life-support system. The veteran astronaut has been batch of astronauts, and trained “This is something that 20 gun violence and honouring time nurse and one of the last the country, could face between tine flag, at the presidential pal- “At this current stage, we hav- They will also be monitored for hailed by his team as a bastion of for more than a decade before other states have adopted and victims and survivors in El people to see him alive. eight and 25 years in prison. ace in Buenos Aires amid three en’t considered the participation how they fare in space physically stability and a teacher figure who being selected for his first space- it’s time for Texas to adopt it, Paso and across Texas,” she COVID-19: Countries worst affected An investigation was opened Madrid was one of the people days of national mourning. of international astronauts, but and psychologically. An upcoming constantly challenges others with flight on Shenzhou-12. too,” Abbott told local talk ra- tweeted. his #GreatOutdoors- Country Total cases Total TMonth we recognize deaths Global tally the need to ensure access to the outdoors for all 1 USA 34,367,255 616,190 Death toll rises as monsoon floods hit Bhutan and Nepal Americans, and commit 2 India 29,746,584 382,785 177,999,445 US Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, Giant Buddhist goddess in Japan gets to conserving our natural AFP | Kathmandu spaces for generations to 3 Brazil 17,629,714 493,837 Deaths preserves health care for millions face mask to pray for end of COVID-19 come. 4 France 5,749,691 110,634 t least a dozen people have @VP Abeen killed in Bhutan and Reuters | London Reuters | Tokyo 5 Turkey 5,354,153 49,012 3,852,276 Nepal and several others are 6 Russia 5,264,047 127,992 Recovered: missing as torrential monsoon he US Supreme Court yes- orkers scaled a giant stat- rains hit the region, trigger- Tterday rejected a bid by Re- Wue of a Buddhist goddess 7 UK 4,600,623 127,945 ing landslides and inundating publican-led states to overturn in Japan on Tuesday to place 04 8 Italy 4,249,755 127,190 162,516,519 homes, officials said yesterday. Obamacare, safeguarding the a custom-made mask on her The annual monsoon season health insurance of millions with face, an act meant to be a prayer 9 Argentina 4,198,620 87,261 New cases is crucial to replenish water the coronavirus pandemic still a for the end of the coronavirus 10 Colombia 3,829,879 97,560 supplies across South Asia, but threat in much of America. pandemic. it also causes death and de - In a 7-2 decision, the nation’s It took four workers three 11 Spain 3,753,228 80,634 +200,031 struction. highest court upheld the Afforda- hours to carry the massive mask 12 Germany 3,727,031 90,776 Ten collectors of cordyceps ble Care Act (ACA), former pres- on ropes up the 57 m-high (187 New deaths -- a fungus valued for its alleged ident Barack Obama’s signature ft) white statue of the Buddhist anada is known for 13 Iran 3,070,426 82,619 aphrodisiac properties -- died Residents stand along the banks of the overflowed Melamchi River following health care program, ruling that goddess Kannon - the Goddess welcoming immi- heavy monsoon rains in Sindhupalchok C 14 Poland 2,878,276 74,734 +3,647 when their remote mountain Texas and the other 17 states did of Mercy - at the Houkokuji grants, but it also in - camp north of Bhutan’s capital toll from floods in the district not have standing in the case. Aizu Betsuin temple in Fukus- carcerates thousands Figures as of closing Thimpu was washed away early to three. hima Prefecture. of people, including Middle East Wednesday. Their bodies were found The US Supreme Court building in Washington They then unfurled the mask those with disabilities, Country Total new Total New Total Active Five others were injured and I urge everyone across more than a hundred kilo - BETTER made with pink net fabric, on immigration-related cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases were in a stable condition in metres from where they had President Joe Biden, who was is a big fucking deal.” Biden’s re- measuring 4.1 m by 5.3 m and A drone picture shows a mask placed on a 57-metre-high statue of Buddhist grounds every year in of- the country to avoid goddess Kannon at Houkokuji Aizu Betsuin temple in Aizuwakamatsu, hospital, officials said. visiting or camping initially been swept away by the Obama’s vice president when the mark was picked up by live mi- weighing 35 kg (77 pounds), ten abusive conditions. Bhutan’s Prime Minister overflowed Melamchi River, ACA was enacted, called the court crophones. Fukushima Prefecture, Japan That includes people KNOW Egypt 275,010 15,723 203,193 1,150 Lotay Tshering offered his by the riverside, and officials said. ruling “a big win for the American The White House said this across the lower half of the stat- Temple manager Takaomi seeking asylum: @HRW to be cautious of such Saudi 470,723 +1,309 7,635 +14 452,209 +1,022 prayers and condolences and Thirteen others are still miss- people.” month that more than 31 mil - ue’s face. Horigane said workers came up and @Amnesty report. Arabia said a rescue team had been possible mishaps ing while hundreds more were “With millions of people rely- lion Americans currently receive The statue, built 33 years ago, with the idea for the face mask @KenRoth sent to the site. during (the) monsoon displaced from their homes, Former president ing on the Affordable Care Act their health care through Oba- is hollow with a spiral stair- in discussions on the restora- UAE 606,128 +2,167 1,741 +3 585,242 +2,127 “I urge everyone across the BHUTAN’S PRIME MINISTER LOTAY TSHERING they added. Donald Trump had for coverage, it remains, as ever, macare, which Republicans have case that can be climbed to the tion of the statue after it was country to avoid visiting or “We still see possibilities of pledged to eliminate a BFD,” Biden said. “And it’s here unsuccessfully attempted to have 35kg height of the goddess’ shoulder. damaged in an earthquake in Kuwait 332,570 1,837 314,218 camping by the riverside, and In Nepal, the bodies of two rescuing alive those who are to stay.” thrown out in Congress and in is the weight of the mask People visit the statue, which February. Disclaimer: (Views expressed 242,723 +2,015 2,626 +35 213,880 +1,072 the ACA but his efforts that measures 4.1 m by Oman to be cautious of such possi - Chinese workers were recov- missing, because some of them repeatedly failed and “BFD” is a reference to a com- the courts on numerous previous is holding a baby, to pray for Horigane said they plan to by columnists are personal and ble mishaps during (the) mon- ered yesterday from Sindhu- could be taking shelter in safer ment Biden whispered into Oba- occasions. 5.3 m the safe delivery of babies and keep the mask on the statue need not necessarily reflect our Qatar 220,325 +127 581 +2 217,758 +208 soon,” he added in a message on palchok near the capital Kath- places,” Arun Pokharel, the lo- he never presented an ma’s ear at the 2010 ACA signing Other Democratic lawmakers to ask for blessings for their until the COVID-19 situation is editorial stances) Facebook. mandu, taking the total death cal district chief, told AFP. alternative ceremony, when he said: “This welcomed the court decision. newborns. under control in Japan.