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News in brief Myanmar violence must Biden recognizes Armenian genocide, u Argentine Argentine transport minister Transport Minister end, democracy be restored: dies in traffic accident Mario Meoni died late navy declares lost defying Turkey in watershed TOP in a traffic accident about 110 kilometers (70 Indonesia president miles) west of Buenos Aires, the government said. The accident occurred when Meoni was driving Biden is first US TWEETS4 alone during a storm to Junin, his home city. Local president• to formally radio station FM VALL posted footage of firefighters sub with 53 aboard sunk attending to the overturned vehicle. “With his death, recognise mass killings 01 Argentina loses a thorough, tireless and honest of Armenians in politician and an exemplary official,” President KRI Nanggala 402 declared sunk with no hope of rescuing its 53 crew members as Ottoman Empire during Alberto Fernandez said. oxygen deadline passes WWI as ‘genocide’ u Brazilian Brazil’s Bolsonaro says military would President Jair AFP | Washington Bolsonaro said follow his orders to take the streets that if he were to order the military to A scan detected the S President Joe Biden t is time for Congress take the streets and restore order, “the • submarine at 850 metres yesterday recognized the to eliminate gun man- order will be followed,” raising fresh U I deep – well beyond 1915 killings of Armenians by People lay flowers at the eternal fire of Tsitsernakaberd memorial in Yerevan ufacturers’ immunity questions about his politicization of Ottoman forces as genocide, said. from liability. I thank the armed forces. Speaking during a TV its survivable limits a watershed moment for de- Congressman Schiff and interview, Bolsonaro said he would not “go KNOW WHAT scendants of the hundreds of A century of waiting Senator Blumenthal for into details into what I’m preparing.” But Protesters march during a demonstration against the military coup AFP | Jakarta thousands of dead as he defied As many as 1.5 million Ar- their leadership, and he said that “if we were to have problems, we have a plan of how to enter the field AFP | Jakarta We remember the decades of pressure by Turkey. menians are estimated to have urge Congress to swiftly ... our armed forces could one day go into the streets.” lives of all those who ebris has been recovered The submarine joined Biden became the first US died in the Ottoman- been killed from 1915 to 1917 repeal this immunity. Canadian PM Trudeau receives first u Canadian yanmar’s military must from a missing Indonesian the Indonesian fleet in president to use the word gen- during the waning days of the @POTUS Prime Minister The first requested era Armenian dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine restore democracy and submarine, the country’s 1981 and underwent ocide in a customary statement Ottoman Empire, which sus- Justin Trudeau M D genocide and stop the violence against cit- commitment is for the navy said yesterday, suggesting a refit in on the anniversary, a day after pected the Christian minority received his first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 izens, Indonesian President Myanmar military to that the stricken vessel could have informing Turkish President recommit ourselves of conspiring with adversary vaccine at an Ottawa pharmacy, telling said after cri- broken apart after sinking with 53 that was completed in Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he to preventing such Russia in World War I. Arme- 02 stop the use of violence 2012. It was said to be reporters “I’m very excited” as the needle sis talks with junta chief Min and that all parties crew aboard. would go ahead with this step an atrocity from ever nian populations were rounded entered his arm. Afterwards he posed for television in good condition Aung Hlaing and Southeast there at the same The development dashed al- and seeking to limit the expect- again occurring up and deported into the de- cameras and photographers with his thumbs up Indonesian Cakra class submarine KRI Nanggala 402 (C) setting out from the naval NATO Asian leaders yesterday. ready slim hopes of rescuing the ed furor from the ally. JOE BIDEN sert of Syria on death marches and then watched as his wife Sophie received her The strongly worded com- time must refrain so sailors alive after their oxygen base in conduct the training exercises “We remember the lives of where many were shot, poi - first shot. Sophie came down with a mild case of the ments followed a meeting in that tensions can be reserves were understood to have there was no external pressure ulous Muslim-majority nation. when it asked for permission all those who died in the Ot- on the merits of human rights, soned or fell victim to disease, coronavirus at the start of the pandemic last year. Jakarta of the Association reduced run out earlier in the day. or without damage to its torpedo Margono said the hunt for the to dive. It lost contact shortly toman-era Armenian genocide and not for any reason beyond according to accounts at the u China will hold China eyes asteroid defence of Southeast Asian Nations INDONESIAN PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO Warships, planes and hundreds launcher.” submarine -- and sailors -- would after. and recommit ourselves to pre- that, including placing blame,” time by foreign diplomats. t’s #WorldImmuni- discussions on building a (ASEAN), which was the sen- of military personnel have been But he discounted an explo - continue, but warned that deep Authorities have not offered venting such an atrocity from a senior US official said. Turkey, which emerged as IzationWeek! @WHO defence system against system, comet mission ior Myanmar general’s first He also called for the release searching for the KRI Nanggala sion, saying it was more likely waters made the recovery effort possible explanations for the sub- ever again occurring,” Biden Biden took office vowing a secular republic from the and partners are using near-Earth asteroids, a senior foreign trip since security forc- of political prisoners and for 402 since it disappeared off the the submarine came apart as it “very risky and difficult”. marine’s sudden disappearance or said. to put a new focus on human ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the chance to show how space agency official said, as the es staged a coup that ousted a special envoy to be allowed coast of early Wednesday. was crushed by water pressure at “We don’t know about the commented on questions about “And we remember so that rights and democracy in the acknowledges that 300,000 vaccination connects us country steps up its longer term civilian leader Aung San Suu into the crisis-hit nation to Authorities earlier said the depths topping 800 metres (2,600 victims’ condition because we whether the decades-old vessel we remain ever-vigilant against wake of his volatile predecessor Armenians may have died but to the people, goals and space ambitions. Zhang Kejian, Kyi in early February. “push for dialogue”. German-built craft was equipped feet) -- well below what it was haven’t found any of them. So was overloaded. the corrosive influence of hate Donald Trump, who befriend- strongly rejects that it was moments that matter to head of the China National Space Min Aung Hlaing has be - Min Aung Hlaing did not with enough oxygen for only three built to withstand. we can’t speculate,” he said in The military has said the sub- in all its forms,” he said. ed authoritarians and, despite genocide, saying they perished us most, helping improve Administration, did not provide come the focus of internation- make a formal public state - days after losing power. did not pick up signals to response to questions about the marine, delivered to Indonesia in The statement is a massive breaking plenty of foreign pol- in strife and famine in which the health of everyone, further detail in his opening remarks al outrage over the coup and ment. That deadline passed yesterday indicate a blast, he added. possibility of survivors. 1981, was seaworthy. victory for Armenia and its ex- icy precedents, declined to rec- many Turks also died. everywhere throughout at a ceremony for China’s space day a subsequent crackdown on But Singapore’s prime min- morning. “It was not an explosion be - “But with the (discovery) of Neighbouring Singapore and tensive diaspora. Starting with ognize the Armenian genocide. Erdogan on Thursday told life. #VaccinesWork to in the eastern city of Nanjing. dissent that has left more than ister Lee Hsien Loong, who The navy’s chief Yudo Margono cause (if it was) everything would these items, you can make your Malaysia, as well as the United Uruguay in 1965, nations in - Explaining Biden’s think- advisors to “defend the truth bring us closer! 700 dead. called for the release of Suu said a search party had recovered be in pieces,” Margono said. own conclusion.” States and Australia, were among cluding France, Germany, Can- ing, the administration official against those who back the @DrTedros Avalanche kills eight u At least eight workers were killed and hundreds were rescued “The first requested com- Kyi from house arrest, said the fragments from the submarine “This was a gradual cracking.” The submarine -- one of five in nations helping in the hunt with ada and Russia have recognized also alluded to the Democratic so-called ‘Armenian genocide’ Indians near China border mitment is for the Myanmar junta leader “heard us”. including items from inside the Indonesia’s fleet -- disappeared nearly two dozen ships deployed the genocide but a US statement president’s outspokenness on lie,” with his foreign minister after an avalanche struck a remote Grease bottle, prayer mat Himalayan region near the China border in northern India, officials said. Six military to stop the use of vio- “He was not opposed to ASE- vessel -- pointing to a catastrophic early Wednesday during live tor- to scour a search zone covering has been a paramount goal that systemic racism in the United warning that the United States 03 people were in critical condition in hospital after authorities used helicopters to lence and that all parties there AN playing a constructive role, accident. Navy officials displayed sev- pedo training exercises off the about 10 square nautical miles (34 proved elusive under other States. would set back relations. retrieve trapped workers in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state. The avalanche at the same time must refrain or an ASEAN delegation visit, “We have raised the status from eral items including a piece of Indonesian holiday island. square kilometres). presidents until Biden. Across the world, “people are Recognition has been a top is believed to have been triggered by glacier collapse, two months after a so that tensions can be re - or humanitarian assistance, submiss to subsunk,” he told re- the vessel’s torpedo system and a An oil spill spotted where the Australia’s HMAS Ballarat ar- Biden said his statement was beginning to acknowledge and priority for the Armenia and devastating glacial burst in the same region left more than 200 dead. duced,” Widodo said yesterday. and that they would move for- porters, adding that the retrieved bottle of grease used to lubricate submarine was thought to have rived earlier yesterday with a US “not to cast blame but to ensure address and grapple with the Armenian-Americans, with “The violence must be ward and engage with ASEAN items could not have come from a periscope. submerged pointed to possible P-8 Poseidon aircraft. that what happened is never painful historical facts in their calls for compensation and stopped and democracy, sta- in a constructive way,” Lee told another vessel. They also found a prayer mat fuel-tank damage, fanning fears Singapore’s MV Swift Rescue -- repeated.” own countries. It’s certainly property restoration over what bility and peace in Myanmar reporters, citing the general’s “(The items) would not have commonly used by Muslims. In- of a deadly disaster. a submarine rescue vessel -- was Biden made the decision “in something that we are doing they call Meds Yeghern -- the COVID-19: Countries worst affected must be restored.” comments at the meeting. come outside the submarine if donesia is the world’s most pop- The vessel was scheduled to also taking part. a very principled way focused here in the United States,” she Great Crime. n the months ahead, Country Total cases Total Igovernments must deaths Global tally dramatically step up their climate ambitions 1 USA 32,759,730 585,356 – particularly the big- Trump slams SKorea’s Moon but says likes NKorea’s Kim US ends J&J COVID-19 vaccine pause; gest-emitting countries 2 India 16,951,621 192,309 146,875,405 Astronauts arrive at space station AFP | Washington that have caused the vast 3 Brazil 14,238,110 386,623 Deaths shots to resume immediately bulk of the crisis. In this 4 France 5,473,579 102,713 pivotal year for human- ormer president Donald aboard SpaceX Endeavour ity, now is the time for 5 Russia 4,753,789 107,900 3,107,223 FTrump on Friday accused Kim Jong-un of Reuters | Los Angeles bold #ClimateAction 6 Turkey 4,591,416 38,011 his South Korean counterpart North Korea, who I @antonioguterres Recovered: of ripping off the United States, four-astronaut team arrived 7 UK 4,403,170 127,417 have gotten to know while continuing to highlight (and like) under Aat the International Space 8 Italy 3,949,517 119,021 124,888,392 his supposed friendship with Station yesterday aboard the North Korean leader Kim Jong the most trying of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule 04 9 Spain 3,468,617 77,591 New cases Un. circumstances, never Endeavour, NASA said, after be- 10 Germany 3,277,661 82,117 “Kim Jong-un of North Korea, respected the current coming the first crew ever to be who I have gotten to know (and President of South propelled into orbit by a rocket 11 Argentina 2,824,652 61,176 +653,367 like) under the most trying of Korea, Moon Jae-in booster recycled from a previous circumstances, never respected spaceflight. 12 Poland 2,751,632 65,222 New deaths DONALD TRUMP the current President of South Coronavirus vaccine vials and a medical syringe are seen in front of a 13 Colombia 2,740,544 70,446 Korea, Moon Jae-in,” Trump displayed Johnson & Johnson logo 14 Iran 2,377,039 69,120 +8,275 said in a statement. hy doesn’t the “President Moon was weak as 28,500 troops in South Korea crew members of the International Space Station welcoming crew members of the Reuters | London found 15 cases in the 8 million ASEAN chairman’s North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un (L) and then US president Donald Trump meet W a leader and as a negotiator, ex- to defend it from the nucle - SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft shots given. statement on the “Five Figures as of closing on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Middle East cept when it came to the contin- ar-armed North Korea, as well The Endeavour capsule, also Kimbrough, 53, and pilot Megan he United States can im- “We are no longer recom- Point[s] of Consensus” Korea KNOW WHAT Country Total new Total New Total Active ued, long term military ripoff of as to protect US interests in making its second flight, was McArthur, 49 - along with Japa- Tmediately resume use of mending a pause in the use for Myanmar include cases cases deaths Deaths recovered cases the USA... We were treated like Korean peninsula. to pay 13.9 percent more toward northeast Asia. launched into space on Friday nese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 of this vaccine,” CDC Direc- any reference to the re- fools for decades, however, I got He first met in June 2018 with the cost of the US troop presence Under the new deal, Seoul has atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rock - 52, and fellow mission specialist vaccine, top health regulators tor Rochelle Walensky told a lease of all political pris- them to pay billions of dollars Kim in Singapore, the first-ever on the peninsula, in a six-year agreed to pay 1.18 trillion won et from NASA’s Kennedy Space Thomas Pesquet, 43, a French en- said on Friday, ending a 10-day news briefing. “Based on the oners as the media is Egypt 220,658 12,959 166,024 41,675 The mission’s Falcon 9 more for the military protection summit between the countries deal resolving an issue that fes- ($1.03 billion) for 2021, with an- rocket blasted off with Center in Florida. SpaceX is the gineer from the European Space pause to investigate its link to in-depth analysis, there is like- reporting? Did the junta Saudi 411,263 +1,072 6,887 +9 394,529 9,847 and services we render.” still technically at war, and lat- tered under the Trump admin- nual increases thereafter linked the same first-stage Elon Musk’s commercial rocket Agency. extremely rare but potentially ly an association but the risk is leader not agree to that? Arabia “The Biden Administration er said the two leaders “fell in istration. to its defense budget. company. The mission marks the sec - deadly blood clots. very low.” @KenRoth is not even going to ask for the love.” The financial dispute had be- The sum represents a 13.9 per- booster that lofted a The Endeavour docked to the ond “operational” space station The Centers for Disease Top US FDA officials said the UAE 508,925 +2,080 1,569 +2 490,457 16,899 additional billions South Korea The pair met twice more dur- deviled the two allies’ securi- cent increase on the roughly crew into orbit five space station complex at 5:08 a.m. team launched by NASA aboard a Control and Prevention (CDC) decision was effective immedi- Kuwait 265,404 +1,206 1,511 +9 248,633 15,260 agreed to pay us,” Trump added, ing Trump’s time in office, and ty alliance after Trump -- who $920 million Seoul was paying months ago, marking EDT (0908 GMT) while the space- Crew Dragon capsule since hu- and Food and Drug Admin - ately, clearing the way for shots referring to current President North Korea held off on nuclear took a transactional approach under the previous agreement, the first time a previ- craft were flying 264 miles (425 man spaceflights resumed from istration said the risks of ex- in arms as early as yesterday. 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