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Pope Urges End to Violence on Historic Iraq Trip IT IS EASIER TO PREVENT BAD TODAY 1479 1857 1869 1899 QUOTE HABITS THAN TO BREAK THEM IN OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Dmitri Mendeleev presents “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) DAY HISTORY the Canary Islands to Castile in Court rules Africans cannot be the first periodic table of patented by Felix Hoffmann at exchange for claims in West Africa US citizens the elements to the Russian German company Bayer SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021 Chemical Society News in brief Fresh bloodshed in Myanmar as Saudi-led coalition says it downed six Britain’s Prince Philip has successful u Britain’s Prince UN urged to hear ‘desperate pleas’ Houthi drones fired at Khamis Mushait Philip, the 99-year- Reuters | Dubai heart procedure, palace says old husband of ‘Silence the arms!’ Pope urges end TOP Queen Elizabeth, underwent a successful procedure for a pre-existing heart condition on Wednesday, he Saudi-led coalition Buckingham Palace said in a statement. Philip was Tfighting the Houthi group TWEETS4 admitted to hospital on Feb. 16 after he felt unwell, to in Yemen said it had intercept- receive treatment for an unspecified, but not COVID-19- to violence on historic Iraq trip ed six explosive drones fired related, infection. On Monday, he was transferred to towards the kingdom yester- 01 a different hospital in central London, with the palace day, with the Houthis claiming to have launched attacks into saying at the time that he would have heart tests and Pope arrives in Baghdad on a first-ever papal visit to comfort the dwindling Christian communities of Drone aircraft on display in Yemen continue to be treated for the infection. southern Saudi Arabia since Mesopotamia decimated by years of conflict dawn. Saudi Arabia in the measures u Former US Trump to be allowed back on The Iran-aligned Houth- it takes to confront these ter- president Donald Trump is have recently stepped up rorist attacks, calling on the will be allowed back on YouTube when ‘risk of violence’ falls cross-border drone and missile international community to YouTube but only when the threat of his Thousands of security attacks on Saudi cities, mostly pressure the Houthi militia to oving to a green inciting violence abates, the head of the • personnel deployed to targeting the southern part of stop these attacks that breach economy is the popular online video sharing platform M protect 84-year-old on first the country. The coalition says international laws and con- biggest challenge the said. YouTube in late January suspended Demonstrators block a road during an anti-coup protest in Yangon it intercepts most attacks. ventions world has ever faced. I’m Trump’s channel, joining other social media trip outside Italy since 2019 Reuters | Yangon The Houthis fired the six Houthi military spokesman optimistic we can do it, platforms in banning his accounts following intercepted drones towards Yahya Sarea said in Twitter but need to make sure it the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. Reuters | Baghdad nother anti-coup protester Khamis Mushait near the posts yesterday that three benefits everyone—in- Blinken, Austin to visit Japan u US Secretary of State was shot dead in Myanmar Yemen border in attacks since drones had been fired at dawn, cluding those workers Antony Blinken and Defense on Friday as a UN envoy ope Francis called for an end to dawn, the coalition said in and five in the afternoon. and communities who and South Korea this month Secretary Lloyd Austin A urged the Security Council to hear KNOW WHAT extremism and violence in his statements carried by Saudi The United States and Unit- depend on the fossil fuels plan to visit Japan and South Korea this month for the nation’s “desperate pleas” and opening address yesterday on the state news agency SPA and ed Nations have renewed peace that we need to get rid of. foreign policy and security talks, three government P Pope Francis receives flowers from children as he take swift action to restore de - first-ever papal visit to Iraq, long scarred Ekhbariya TV. efforts as fighting has also in- @BillGates sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. mocracy. by war and now gripped by coronavirus. is welcomed by Iraqi President Barham Salih, at Bahrain condemned the at- tensified in Yemen’s gas-rich The visits will be the first to the Asian allies by the top Despite an increasingly brutal Indian police said nine The 84-year-old is defying a second Baghdad’s Presidential Palace tack targeting safe civilians and Marib region. US foreign policy and defence officials since the Biden crackdown by the military author- people had crossed the wave of the global pandemic and renewed civilian installations. On Tuesday, the US Treas- administration took office in January and reflect growing ities that has seen more than 50 1,600-kilometre (1,000- security fears to make a “long-awaited” In a statement, the Ministry ury Department imposed new 02 concerns about the challenge posed by a rising China and people killed, protesters took to mile) frontier -- three trip to comfort one of the world’s oldest of Foreign Affairs expressed sanctions on two Houthi mili- North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. the streets again in towns around Christian communities, while also deep- Pope Francis is received by the Iraqi prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi upon disembarking from his the solidarity of Bahrain with tary leaders. of whom were police of- plane in Baghdad u A new earthquake hit Greece rocked by new the country to denounce the Feb- ficers who had refused ening his dialogue with Muslims. central Greece near the city of ruary 1 coup. “May there be an end to acts of vio- Just like Iraq’s Christian population, Larissa, the same region where quake near city of Larissa In Mandalay, Myanmar’s second to take part in putting lence and extremism, factions and in- the esoteric Yazidi community was rav- an even stronger tremor left 11 people injured largest city, hundreds of engineers down protests tolerance!” urged Francis in the stirring aged in 2014 by the Islamic State group’s Reading aloud of 628-page Covid the day before, the Athens seismological took to the streets crying “Free address, his first after arriving in Iraq. I am happy to be making sweep over much of northern Iraq. We must never cease our leader” in reference to ousted commercial capital Yangon were Francis landed in the afternoon at to proclaim in fearless observatory said. The quake, which the US trips again. This is an ‘Victory’ over death bill delays debate in US Senate “ Geological Survey said was of 5.6 magnitude, State Counsellor Aung San Suu defiant despite the danger. Baghdad’s International Airport, where emblematic trip and it is a People stand by the road as they wait for Pope Francis AFP | Washington tones the great princi - caused rock falls close to the UNESCO World Kyi, detained by the military since “Scared, yeah, I’m very scared he was greeted by Prime Minister Musta- duty towards a land that The trip is the pontiff’s first travel into debating the measure ples of freedom and the Heritage-listed Meteora orthodox monasteries in the first night of the takeover. to stay on the frontline. But we fa al-Kadhemi, as well as groups show- has been martyred for so abroad since the coronavirus pandemic, in Baghdad, just days after Iraq launched aimed at helping millions of rights of man.” Churchill’s Kalabaka, emergency services said. A 26-year-old man helping at believe in our comrades and we casing Iraq’s diverse folklore music and which had left him feeling “caged” in its modest inoculation campaign. he US Senate finally took families and boosting a crip- words in his famous Iron barriers set up in the city to slow promise to protect each other if dance. many years Vatican City -- and it has been hailed as “I’ll try to follow directions and not up the $1.9 trillion Cov- pled economy, Republicans Curtain speech 75 years u Australia’s prime minister T Australian PM plays down played down the impact of Italy’s security forces died after being someone is injured,” protester He then met with President Barham POPE FRANCIS a bold choice. shake hands with everyone, but I don’t id relief package but a brazen halted the process for hours by ago resonate as true today Italy vaccine blockade landmark decision to block the shot in the neck, medical officials Didi, 27, said. Saleh -- who had extended the official in- Iraq endured decades of war, is still want to stay too far,” Francis said ahead ploy by opponents -- read - demanding that clerks recite as they did in the post- export of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses told AFP. The generals have shown no vitation to the pontiff in 2019 -- as well as bat the scourge of corruption, misuse hunting for IS cells and is now facing a of his arrival. ing the entire 628-page bill every word of the ambitious war era. The UK stands by due to be delivered. Scott Morrison insisted the The killing follows the dead- sign of heeding calls for restraint other government and religious figures. of power and disregard for law,” in a second spike of Covid-19 infections, with He was also seen walking with a slight aloud on the chamber floor plan. these values. blocked shipment of the AstraZeneca jabs was liest day of the crackdown so far despite mounting international At the imposing presidential palace, country consistently ranked one of the more than 5,000 new cases and dozens limp, likely a result of a painful bout of -- promptly gummed up the Republicans already ap - @BorisJohnson understandable and would not affect Australia’s on Wednesday, when the UN said pressure, including targeted sanc- the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catho- most graft-tainted by Transparency In- of deaths daily.
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