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The Moment a Belarusian Dissi THE HUMAN RACE HAS ONE REALLY TODAY 1720 1914 2020 QUOTE EFFECTIVE WEAPON, AND THAT IS IN OF THE LAUGHTER The Ship “Le Grand St Antoine” British House of Commons passes Video of African American George Floyd’s arrest and murder while DAY HISTORY reaches Marseille, bringing Eu- the Irish Home Rule Bill restrained in Minneapolis police custody shows he was pinned to the MARK TWAIN rope’s last major plague outbreak. ground by police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee for 8 minutes and 46 TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2021 Kills around 100,000 seconds, ignites widespread condemnation and nationwide protests News in brief Difficult path of Azerbaijan in u Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said 1.3 democracy building The moment a Belarusian dissident knew his time was up million vaccines from China had TOP arrived in the South American country, which is poised to start a hours in Minsk. vaccination campaign in the coming Belarus says it was Another exhausted passenger, Europeans threaten to limit Belarus air traffic TWEETS4 days. The announcement comes as • speaking to reporters without Venezuela, mired in an economic crisis, acting in response to giving her name, said Protase- Reuters experiences a second wave of COVID-19 Venezuela a bomb threat on the vich looked “super scared”. cases amid a weak healthcare system and SHAHIN ABDULLAYEV flight, although this “I looked directly into his eyes uropean leaders threat- 01 slow vaccination rollout. “One million 300 receives 1.3 turned out to be false. and he was very sad,” she said. Eened to limit internation- thousand new vaccines have arrived for n May 28, 1918, the first democratic parliamentary re- Belarusian authorities had di- al air traffic over Belarus and Venezuelans direct from China, one million million COVID-19 public in the Muslim World – Azerbaijan Democratic It said on Monday its verted the flight as it passed over possibly target its ground 300 thousand, the arrival of vaccines is vaccines from oRepublic (ADR) – was proclaimed. According to the form ground controllers the country because of a suspect- transport as well, after a Rya- climbing,” said the president in a live China: Maduro of its governance, the ADR was built on the classical model of a had given guidance to ed bomb alert, state news agency nair plane was forced to land broadcast on state TV Sunday evening. parliamentary republic on the basis of political pluralism and the flight but had not BelTA said. The alert later turned in an incident denounced by u The UN chief on Monday declared the world “at war” multi-party system. out to be false. Western countries as “state This [#COVID19] pan- Guided by the principles of people power and equality from ordered it to land. piracy”. demic is not yet beaten against Covid-19, as India’s death toll crossed 300,000 and Japan ‘STANDING ALONE’ “ opened its first mass vaccination centres -- just two months before the start of the very first days of its existence, ADR eliminated racial, ethnic, Western leaders reached nor will it be the last of the Olympics. United Nations and religious and class inequalities by granting all citizens of the State media said the Protasevich, 26 was imme- for the strongest language to its kind. New diseases UN chief country the same rights. For the first time in the East and long decision• to intervene diately separated on arrival in condemn Sunday’s incident, Mantas, a Lithuanian passenger of Ryanair flight FR4978, speaks to the will break out again & declares Secretary-General Antonio media after arriving at Vilnius Airport, Lithuania Guterres urged governments before some of Western Democracies, women were granted had been ordered Minsk and checks of luggage in which a Belarusian war- again in the future. The ‘war’ on the right to vote in 1918. The fundamental steps taken in the using sniffer dogs turned up plane intercepted a flight be- priority must be to ena- to apply wartime logic to stark personally by President Covid field of democratic state building, economy, culture, education nothing. tween Greece and Lithuania Banning the Belarusian state eral rounds of financial sanc- ble the world to respond inequalities in the response Alexander Lukashenko to the pandemic, warning the left indelible mark on the history of the people of Azerbaijan. “We saw that Roman was and forced it down in Minsk, carrier Belavia from Euro - tions against Minsk last year, to pandemic threats as crisis was far from over despite rapidly advancing vaccination rollouts in wealthy On January 11, 1920, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic stopped due to some things in where a dissident journalist pean airport was also being which had no effect on the rapidly as possible.” - parts of the world. “Unless we act now, we face a situation in which rich countries was de facto recognized by the Paris Peace Conference. The Belarus lies on the the luggage,” Mantas said, add- was arrested. discussed, as were ground behaviour of long-serving German Chancellor An- vaccinate the majority of their people and open their economies, while the Azerbaijani parliament adopted a law on establishment of flight• path of some ing that the other passengers Countries called for the re- transport links. leader Lukashenko, a close gela Merkel at #WHA74 virus continues to cause deep suffering by circling and mutating in the poorest diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the important north-south also had their luggage checked lease of 26-year-old Roman Still, the options for West- Russian ally who withstood @WHO countries,” he said. United States, Switzerland, Poland, Germany and Russia. and were taken by bus to the Protasevich, whose social ern retaliation appear limit- mass demonstrations against Despite the fall of state due to Soviet invasion on April 28, routes in Europe Opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich, who is accused of terminal where they spent sev- media feed from exile has ed. The Montreal-based ICAO his rule after a disputed elec- u Russia’s 1920, the national idea and craving for the nationhood survived. as well as east-west participating in an unsanctioned protest at the Kuropaty preserve, arrives for a eral hours waiting to reboard been one of the last remain- has no regulatory power, and tion. 02 foreign minister Russia court hearing in Minsk, Belarus warns Turkey The short but glorious destiny of the ADR has left a deep trace routes between the plane. ing independent outlets for the EU has no authority over The head of the foreign af- yesterday warned on self-consciousness of the people of Azerbaijan. Its ideas and is less than 200 km (125 miles) “We saw from the window news about the country since flights taking off and land- fairs committee in the British Turkey against what over ties with legacy have shaped the historical and spiritual foundations of Europe and Asia. from Vilnius. The diversion that Roman is standing alone, a mass crackdown on dissent ing in Belarus or flying over parliament, Tom Tugendhat, he said were attempts Ukraine the modern Azerbaijan that after regaining its independence on would take minutes. and one policeman with dog was last year. its air space, apart from di- noting that the flight was be- to fuel “militaristic October 18, 1991 declared 28 May as the Republic Day. Reuters “When it was announced they trying to find something (in his “This was effectively avia- rect flights that originate or tween two members of both sentiment” in Ukraine after Ankara moved to boost cooperation with Kyiv. Turkish But after restoration of its independence, the political crisis, were going to land in Minsk, luggage).” tion piracy, state sponsored,” land in Europe. Belarus has EU and the NATO military al- President Tayyip Erdogan last month pledged support to Kyiv amid a buildup emergence of separatist tendencies in different regions, and yanair Flight 4978 had Roman stood up, opened the lug- Another passenger, who also said Ireland’s Foreign Min- shrugged off previous rounds liance, said: “If it’s not an act of Russian forces along its border with Ukraine. Erdogan said at the time that KNOW WHAT severe socio-economic situation put the Azerbaijan face-to- already begun its descent gage compartment, took luggage did not give his name, told Lith- ister Simon Coveney, using of EU and U.S. financial sanc- of war, it’s certainly a warlike he @WHO#BioHub Turkey, a NATO member, and Ukraine had launched a platform with their foreign face with a threat of civil war. The into the Lithuanian cap- and was trying to split things,” uanian media that Protasevich language that was echoed by tions. act.” System will offer a re- and defence ministers to discuss defence industry cooperation, but added that R T situation was further exacerbated ital when the pilot announced said a Lithuanian passenger, who had identified himself to Bela- a number of other countries. Ahead of a scheduled meet- Ryanair boss Michael liable, safe and transpar- this was “not in any way a move against third countries”. The Baku-Tbilisi- by Armenia`s aggression and occu- that the plane would be suddenly gave his name only as Mantas. Alexander Lukashenko is a rusian security officials on ar- Swedish Foreign Minister ing of the 27 EU national lead- O’Leary, who referred to the ent mechanism for WHO u Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday voiced pation of 20 peents of Azerbaijan`s Jeyhan main export diverting to Minsk, capital of “I think he made a mistake. Belarusian politician who rival. “I saw how his passport Ann Linde said: “It is danger- ers in Brussels, Lithuanian incident as a state-sponsored Member States to volun- defiance as she made her first court appearance since being detained lands.
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