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Yclone Kills at Least Onesia, East Timor THE HUMAN RACE HAS ONE REALLY TODAY 46BC 1652 1917 1982 QUOTE EFFECTIVE WEAPON, AND THAT IS IN OF THE LAUGHTER Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Cape Colony, the 1st European US declares Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and DAY HISTORY Metellus Scipio and Marcus settlement in South Africa, estab- war on Ger- Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface- MARK TWAIN Porcius Cato (Cato the Young- lished by Dutch East India Com- many, enters to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021 er) in the battle of Thapsus. pany under Jan van Riebeeck World War I Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified. News in brief u Iran has arrested an US Supreme Court rebuffs claims of “Israeli spy” and a number of other people who were TOP in contact with foreign Tropical cyclone kills at least workplace religious bias intelligence services, Iranian state media reported on Reuters | Washington 4 Monday, without giving the sex and national origin. TWEETS nationality of those arrested. he US Supreme Court yes- Gorsuch wrote that religious “An Israeli spy has been arrested Tterday sidestepped a chance rights under the employment in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province ... also Iran arrests to further expand religious law are “the odd man out” be- 01 97 in Indonesia, East Timor rights, turning away two cases cause they do not receive as other spies who were in contact with several ‘Israeli spy’ and countries’ intelligence services have been in which employees accused much protection as other rights arrested as well,” it quoted an Intelligence others in touch companies of violating feder- guaranteed under federal law, Ministry official as saying. Israeli officials did with foreign al anti-discrimination law by such as those that apply to the not immediately comment on the report. intelligence insufficiently accommodating disabled. u Former pro-Kurdish party requests for time off to meet “Alone among comparable leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for religious obligations. statutorily protected civil rights, ement is responsi- his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression The justices declined to hear an employer may dispense with Cble for 6% of carbon and moves to divide them, including a court case to ban his party. Demirtas told appeals by two men of differ- it nearly at whim,” Gorsuch emissions globally. To get Reuters that opponents ent Christian denominations - a wrote. to net-zero by 2050, we Jailed Jehovah’s Witness from Ten- Under the law, employers need innovations to de- Kurdish leader of President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party nessee and a Seventh-day Ad- must reasonably accommo - carbonize the material. I calls on Turkish (AKP) and his nationalist ventist from Florida - of lower date workers’ religious ob - discuss a few approach- opposition to allies should agree shared court rulings that rejected their servance or practices unless es to make low-emission unite against democratic principles claims of illegal religious bias. Members of the media set up in front of the US Supreme Court building in that would cause the company cement in my climate Erdogan and form an alliance now rather than wait until elections Lower courts found that the ac- Washington “undue hardship” - which the book: scheduled for 2023. “All parties which want to fight commodations the men sought Supreme Court in a 1977 case @BillGates side-by-side for democracy must come together,” Demirtas said in reply to written would have placed too much see. The Supreme Court has make for employees for reli - determined to be anything more questions from Edirne prison in northwest Turkey. hardship on the employers. taken an expansive view of re- gious reasons to comply with than a minor, or “de minimis,” In a dissent, conservative Jus- ligious liberties in a number of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act burden. Critics of the “de mini- u Eighteen people have been killed and Eighteen tices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel important cases in recent years. of 1964, which prohibits em- mis” standard have argued that 02 54 injured in tribal clashes in the Sudanese city of dead as violence Alito said the court should have At issue in the cases was the ployment discrimination based it particularly harms religious El Geneina, medics said on Monday, in a renewal of escalates in taken up the case from Tennes- allowances companies must on religion as well as race, color, minorities. bloodshed following a major flare up of violence earlier this year. The incident is the latest in the troubled region Sudanese city of since the signing of a peace agreement late last year and El Geneina the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers. u Malaysia’s Court Turkey detains Malaysia’s Vietnam picks ex-state security of Appeal yesterday 10 retired moment of pride for ex-PM Najib began hearing a bid A Flag of India! The starts appeal by former Prime Minister official Chinh as new PM admirals over arch of Chenab bridge, against Najib Razak to set aside his connecting Kashmir to Reuters | Hanoi 1MDB-linked conviction on corruption won 96.25% of the vote at Mon- open letter Kanyakumari has been conviction charges in a case linked to a multi-billion dollar scandal at Damaged houses are seen at an area affected by flash floods after heavy rains in East Flores, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia day’s National Assembly vote. completed. With an arch state fund 1MDB. ajib, who was voted out in a historic 2018 ietnam’s National Assem- He was formerly head of the span of 467m, it is the election, faces several trials over allegations that $4.5 billion was stolen from Reuters | Malaka, Indonesia were sleeping,” Thomas Ola Lan- uat- Vbly confirmed Pham Minh party’s Central Organisation world’s highest railway 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a state fund he co-founded in 2009. He goday, deputy head of Lembata ed by Chinh, a career security official, Commission, which has a long bridge. PM @Narendra- has plead not guilty to all charges. loods and landslides trig- district government, told Reuters the as the south east Asian coun- reach across party ranks, as well Modi ji’s vision to con- Taiwan reports new incursion u Taiwan’s Defence gered by tropical cyclone by phone. Pow- side of try’s next prime minister at an as deputy minister of the Minis- nect India has inspired by Chinese jets into defence zone Ministry yesterday FSeroja in a cluster of islands About 30,000 people have been erful a mud- official ceremony on Monday. try of Public Security, the agen- the Railway family to reported a new incursion by in southeast Indonesia and East 30k impacted by floods in Indonesia, currents dy road. The move completes the cy tasked with everyday polic- scale new heights About 30,000 people China’s air force into the island’s air defence identification zone, made up of eight Timor have killed 97 people, with some already taking shelter in contin- Presi- five-yearly renewal of Viet- ing, the monitoring of dissent @PiyushGoyal many still unaccounted for and have been impacted by evacuation centres, but rescue ued to flow dent Joko nam’s top four positions, as it and surveillance of activists, as fighter jets and two other aircraft, one of which flew through the strategic Bashi floods in Indonesia, some Channel. In the latest incident, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said four Chinese J-16 thousands displaced, officials said already taking shelter in operations have been made dif- through villages Widodo offered looks to maintain economic well as espionage overseas. and four J-10 fighters were involved, as well as an early warning plane and anti- on Monday. evacuation centres, ficult after five bridges collapsed in the Malaka district his condolences and growth, keep the coronavirus Chinh will replace former 03 submarine aircraft, the latter of which flew to the south of Taiwan through the At least 70 deaths were report- and falling trees blocked some on Timor island on Monday, even ordered speedy disaster re- pandemic at bay, and balance Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Bashi Channel that connects the Pacific to the South China Sea. ed in several islands in Indone- roads, BNPB spokesman Raditya though the rain had stopped. lief efforts. relations with Beijing and Phuc, who was confirmed ear- sia’s West and East Nusa Tenggara Jati said. Some residents there hauled The Seroja cyclone hit the Savu Washington. lier on Monday as the country’s COVID-1:9 Countries worst affected provinces, while 70 others were landslides, flash floods and a fall- A continuing storm had also themselves to their roofs to es- sea southwest of Timor island in China has been asserting its new president, a largely cere- missing, after the cyclone brought ing tree, while 7,000 displaced, its halted evacuations in some plac- cape flood water rising to 3-4 the early hours of Monday, Indo- authority in the South China Pham Minh Chinh swears in as monial role. Country Total cases Total flash floods, landslides and strong government said. es, local authorities said. metres. nesia’s weather agency said. Sea, while the U.S. Treasury Vietnam’s Prime Minister Vietnam has no paramount winds amid heavy rain over the On Lembata island, authorities Hundreds of houses and other “We had to dismantle the zinc Within 24 hours, the cyclone’s Department labelled Vietnam ruler and is officially led by four deaths Global tally AFP News weekend, disaster agency BNPB feared bodies had been washed facilities such as a solar power roof. We went out through the intensity could strengthen, bring- a “currency manipulator” in value of its dong currency.
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