Lai, who is already behind bars for taking part in earlier protests, was given 14 months after pleading guilty to organising an unlawful assembly on October 1, 2019. Agencies | , Hong Kong PUBLISHED ON MAY 29, 2021 08:11 AM IST Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences on Friday for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist China that were followed by a sweeping crackdown.Lai, who is already behind bars for taking part in earlier protests, was given 14 months after pleading guilty to organising an…
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WHO warns that the Covid-19 origins probe is being poisoned by politics. Agencies | , Copenhagen PUBLISHED ON MAY 29, 2021 08:01 AM IST The WHO’s European director warned on Friday that the Covid-19 pandemic won’t be over until at least 70% of people are vaccinated.The World Health Organization’s regional director for Europe Hans Kluge also said that one of his main worries was the increased contagiousness of new variants of the virus. “We know for example that the B.1617 (variant found in India) is more transmissible than the B.117 (British variant), which already was more transmissible than the previous…
A Canadian MP has stepped down from some of his duties and said he is seeking “assistance” after being caught on camera urinating during a video conference in Parliament, a month after appearing naked in another virtual session.”Last night, while attending House of Commons proceedings virtually, in a non-public setting, I urinated without realizing I was on camera,” MP William Amos wrote on his Twitter account Thursday night.”I am deeply embarrassed by my actions and the distress they may have caused anybody who witnessed them,” he added. “While accidental and not visible to the public, this was completely unacceptable, and…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging more countries to stop investing in coal, while pushing for developed countries to take concrete climate action.For net-zero pledges to be backed by credible targets and timelines, subsidies have to be shifted from fossil fuels to renewables, and “it also means stopping the financing of coal domestically and abroad and phasing out its use,” Guterres said in a video message at the International Finance Forum in Beijing on Saturday.Citing South Korea’s recent decision to halt state-backed financing of coal-fired power plants overseas, the UN chief said he’s counting on “G7 climate ministers and…
The eastern DR Congo city of Goma was eerily deserted after nearly 400,000 of its inhabitants fled following warnings that nearby Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again.The authorities geared up for a major humanitarian effort, centred on Sake, around 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of the city, where tens of thousands of people are gathered.Located on the shore of Lake Kivu in the shadow of Africa’s most active volcano, the city has lived in fear since Nyiragongo roared back into life last weekend.The strato-volcano spewed rivers of lava that claimed nearly three dozen lives and destroyed the homes of some…
The Biden administration announced it would re-impose sanctions against nine Belarusian state-owned enterprises and is developing additional penalties to target officials in the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko over the forced landing of a Ryanair Holdings Plc jetliner and the arrest of a dissident journalist.The administration has also issued a “Do Not Travel” warning to American citizens urging them to steer clear of Belarus and issued a notice to American pilots to “exercise extreme caution” when considering flying in Belarusian airspace, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday night.The Treasury Department is also crafting an…
Urian B., Tech Times 28 May 2021, 09:05 pm (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) $ICP Price Prediction | Price Drops $100 to $117 in Just 10 Days $ICP price prediction is a touchy subject and although the cryptocurrency had quite a solid story behind its launch and a strong company backing the currency, the launch alone saw a pump and dump when it first launched. The past 10 days have seen the coin fall almost consistently and the big question is, will this be a viable alt coin to purchase in the future? What is $ICP? According to…
Climbers from the United States and Hong Kong have set new records as they scaled Mount Everest this week, hiking officials said on Friday.Arthur Muir, 75, became the oldest American to climb the world’s highest peak at 8,848.86-metres on Sunday, an official from the company that organised the expedition said.“Arthur Muir is the oldest American at 75 years old to summit Mount Everest,” Garrett Madison, expedition leader at the Madison Mountaineering company told Reuters from the base camp.Muir beat the record set by Bill Burke, who became the oldest American to climb the mountain at the age of 67 in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday offered his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko support in his standoff with the West over his handling of the grounding of a passenger jet and the arrest of a dissident blogger.The West has accused Belarus of piracy after Belarusian air traffic control on Sunday informed the Ryanair pilot of a hoax bomb threat and Minsk scrambled a MiG-29 fighter plane to escort the jetliner down, and then arrested Roman Protasevich, a blogger and critic of Lukashenko, along with his girlfriend.Both are now languishing in jail. Accused of orchestrating mass riots, Protasevich could be jailed for…
“Microsoft Flight Simulator” takes a huge chunk of space from someone’s PC on installment. Initially, before you get to play it, you need to have enough space of at least 150 GB in your specific drive. For those who have games that share the same file size, the addition of the simulation game could be painful for their storage. It’s even worse to imagine that the actual download size is bigger. Now, the latest update of the game would only require you to have 83 GB of free instead of the previous 170GB requirement. What changes have happened in its…