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UN Chief Warns of Famine Risk for Millions Around the World MARRYING EARLY AND TIME FOR GLOBAL DYING YOUNG DEMOCRACY PROMOTION MARCH TO BE RAMPED UP 12 - 14, 2021 FROM ‘SCRANTON JOE’ VOL: 4- ISSUE 238 ‘WE WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS TO . 30 APPROPRIATELY AT THE UNHRC’ PRESIDENT FOR THE POOR INTERVIEW PAGE 03 REALITY CHECK PAGE 06 RETHINKING AMERICA PAGE 07 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE PAGE 09 Registered in the Department of Posts of Sri Lanka under No: QD/130/News/2021 Hundreds of thousands take holy plunge in Ganges HARIDWAR - Hundreds of thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India’s Ganges river on Thursday (11) as the country kicked off one of the world’s largest religious festivals, even as officials reported the biggest spike in coronavirus cases for three months. Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus, many naked apart from a coating of ash and carrying swords or tridents, led the bathers at the Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, in the northern town of Haridwar. All participants at this year’s event, that runs until the end of April, are required to present a negative coronavirus test result before being allowed into the festival grounds, authorities said. But there was little evidence of social distancing in place on Thursday as bathers jostled at the riverbank. Devout Hindus believe bathing in the waters of the Ganges absolves people of sins, and during the Kumbh Mela brings salvation from the cycle of life and death. More than 22,000 people had bathed in the holy river by 8 a.m. (0230 GMT), police overseeing the festival told ANI, a number that was expected to rise significantly throughout the day. Authorities said that more than 100 million people attended the festival in 2019, the last time it was held, a figure that most expect will be lower this year. After an almost three-month lockdown last year that was one of the world’s harshest, India has relaxed almost all re- strictions on movement since a peak in cases in September, including reopening vast stadiums for cricket matches, one of the country’s national obsessions. However, India’s COVID-19 cases numbers are again surg- ing, putting it among the top five countries reporting the most daily new infections. Officials reported 22,854 new infections on Thursday, the highest in nearly three months, taking the country’s total to 11.3 million. Deaths rose by 126 to 158,189, health ministry data showed. - Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images -Agencies Buddhist monks pray for the victims of the 2011 Tohoku a powerful earthquake, deadly tsunami and nuclear ensuing nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi earthquake and tsunami at a beach in Iwaki, Japan on meltdown that traumatized a nation. Around 18,500 nuclear plant blanketed nearby areas with radiation, Thursday (11), Japan observed a minute’s silent at people were killed or left missing in the disaster, most rendering some towns uninhabitable for years and 2.46 p.m. local time to mark the 10th anniversary of the of them claimed by the towering waves triggered displacing tens of thousands of residents Biden signs huge stimulus bill worst natural disaster in the country's living memory: by one of the strongest quakes ever recorded. The Read more on page 5 WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 tril- lion economic relief package on Thursday (11) afternoon, ush- ering in an aggressive infusion of federal aid in a far-reaching effort to address the toll of the coronavirus pandemic. UN Chief warns of famine risk for millions “This historic legislation is about rebuilding the backbone of this country,” Biden said, “and giving the people of this nation, working people, the middle class folks, people who built the country a fighting chance.” around the world Biden had originally been scheduled to sign the bill on Fri- day (12), after it had been reviewed again and printed. But the UNITED NATIONS - Millions of "Climate shocks and the COV- include the Sahel, the Horn of Af- - they are being starved." She added: president and his advisers, aware that low- and middle-income people around the world risk dy- ID-19 pandemic are adding fuel to rica, South Sudan, Yemen and Af- "It makes little difference to the hun- Americans are desperate for the round of direct payments that ing of hunger and the COVID-19 the flames. I have one simple mes- ghanistan. The US ambassador to gry whether they are being starved the bill includes, moved up the timeline to Thursday afternoon. pandemic and climate change are sage: if you don't feed people, you the United Nations, Linda Thomas- by deliberate action or the callous Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, wrote on Twitter earlier on increasing the threat, UN Secre- feed conflict," he said. Greenfield, told how she saw a two- negligence of conflict parties or the Thursday that the enrolled bill arrived at the White House on tary-General Antonio Guterres said "Famine and hunger are no long- year-old girl die of hunger in Uganda international community." Wednesday (10) night and that the president would sign it a Thursday (11). er about lack of food. They are now in 1993. Guterres said that in order to save day earlier than planned because they wanted “to move as fast "Without immediate action, mil- largely man-made - and I use the "There's no reason we can't get re- 34 million people in the high risk as possible.” lions of people will reach the brink term deliberately There is no place sources to people in acute need," the zones, the United Nations and its But he added, “We will hold our celebration of the signing on of extreme hunger and death," Gu- for famine and starvation in the 21st ambassador said. agencies have appealed for emer- Friday, as planned, with Congressional leaders!” terres told the Security Council dur- century." "In today's world, famine is hu- gency mobilization of $5.5 billion. The president signed the measure in the Oval Office hours ing a meeting on the links between At the end of 2020, more than 88 man-made. And if it is caused by us, Guterres announced he was before he was set to deliver a prime-time televised address on food and security. million people were suffering from that means it must be stopped by us launching a task force "to avert ca- Thursday night, kicking off an aggressive campaign to inform Guterres said over 30 million peo- acute hunger due to conflict and too," Thomas-Greenfield added. tastrophe," with representation from voters of the benefits that are coming to them through the re- ple in more than three dozen coun- instability - a 20% increase in one Oxfam International executive the World Food Program and the UN lief package. tries are "just one step away" from a year, he said, pointing to a worsen- director Gabriela Bucher said peo- Food and Agriculture Organization. -NYT declaration of famine. ing trend in 2021. High-risk zones ple in these areas "are not starving -AFP China plans to control Hong Kong’s Lebanon heads for blackout as At least 20 dead in Egypt elections and elevate ‘patriots’ electricity funds dry up clothing factory fire BEIJING — China approved on ty in 1997. Until now, Hong Kong’s BEIRUT - Lebanon's caretaker en- President Michel Aoun, warned of CAIRO - At least 20 peo- with me and a young man Thursday (11) a drastic overhaul of chief executive has been selected by ergy minister (11) warned the coun- repercussions on all sectors if the ple were killed and 24 oth- who I pushed so they election rules for Hong Kong that a 1,200-member Election Commit- try would plunge into "total dark- power went out. ers injured Thursday (11) could avoid the blaze," would most likely bar many pro-de- tee dominated by Beijing’s allies. This ness" at the end of the month if no "Imagine your life without elec- in a clothing factory fire Mahmoud Mohamed said, mocracy politicians from competing has allowed China to pick leaders it money was secured to buy fuel for tricity, internet, phones, hospitals on the eastern outskirts of quoted by Al Youm al-Sa- in elections, cementing Beijing’s grip trusts. power stations. or vaccines... It's surreal to live in the Egyptian capital, med- bea newspaper. over the territory. But a groundswell of support for Power cuts have been common in the 21st century without electricity," ical and security sources "I led them outside, run- The National People’s Congress, the territory’s democracy movement Lebanon ever since the end of the he said. told AFP. ning as the fire burned my China’s Communist Party-controlled during enormous protests in 2019 1975-1990 civil war, forcing Leba- Ghajar has called for emergency Twelve fire trucks were body," said the young man legislature, voted almost unani- raised the possibility that the opposi- nese to pay a second power bill to funding for the state power com- dispatched to extinguish who had been working at mously to give pro-Beijing loyalists tion could amass a majority of votes private generators for three to 12 pany to continue providing power, the huge blaze as smoke the factory for a year. more power to choose Hong Kong’s to stymie Beijing’s choice. hours each day during the outages. until a larger loan is approved by billowed over the indus- Egypt's textile union local leader, as well as members of Beijing plans to add 300 more Now the country is facing its worst parliament. trial area called Al-Obour, paid tribute to the factory its legislature.
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