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• The United States rejects Moscow’s demand for Ukraine and NATO: The United States has officially rejected Moscow’s claim prevents Ukraine from ever joining NATO, as warnings that Russia may attack its neighbor. Meanwhile, China said in a call late Wednesday to the United States that it wants to see all parties involved in Ukraine stay calm and avoid increasing tension.
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, Biden plans to choose a black woman: United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen BreyerThe 83-year-old will retire later this year after three decades of work, allowing President Joe Biden to fulfill his promise to appoint the first black woman to the Supreme Court.
• COVID update: Modern has begun mid-term study to test a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine specifically designed to target a variant of Omicron coronavirus in adults 18 years of age and older. Meanwhile, the first “human challenge” medical research licensed to intentionally expose participants to COVID-19 infection is looking for more volunteers to develop better vaccines.
• Jordanian army says it has killed 27 drug smugglers from Syria: Jordanian troops have was killed on 27 suspected smugglers are trying to enter the kingdom from Syria covered in heavy snow. A report released on the Jordanian military website on Thursday said the smugglers supported “armed groups” and added that some fled back to Syrian territory.
• Six sue the Fukushima nuclear power plant operator for thyroid cancer: Six young Japanese who have developed thyroid cancer are accused of exposing the disease to radiation caused by the 2011 collapse of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. sue its operators. The plaintiffs are demanding nearly $ 5.4 million from Tokyo Electric Power Company.
• Yemeni civilians are suffering from an escalating conflict: The escalation of tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) forced humanitarian organizations on the ground to sound the alarm. the United Nations says January marks probably the highest number of civilian casualties in Yemen a month since the start of the war in 2014.
• Astronomers discover a “scary” cosmic object in the Milky Way: Australian astronomers have found a mystical rotating object In the Milky Way, which releases a huge burst of radio energy every 18 minutes, and unlike anything before. Scientists estimate that it is about 4,000 light-years away and could be a new class of slow-rotating neutron stars.
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Washington Post dedicated its front page to Judge Stephen G. Breyer, who announced his plan to retire later this year and will bring new attention to a number of black female lawyers to be elected to the Supreme Court by U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Puerta
According to local reports, the Moroccan authorities have removed the word “Frontera” from the buildings and signs next to the Spanish border between Ceuta and Melilla. replaced it with “Puerta” (means door or gate in Spanish). A symbolic change that describes the unresolved tensions between Spain and Morocco over the sovereignty of the two cities.
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Putin must also face the Gulag issue
Although the Russian leader has become entangled in the greatest foreign policy of his reign, he has had to admit allegations of torture following the leaked videos of violent exploitation in prisons. However, proposed new legislation to prevent torture threatens to challenge an administration based on corruption and state-sponsored repression.
⚖️ Russian news channel Kommersant reported that lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly, have introduced a new bill aimed at defining the concept of “torture” by law and raising the sentence imposed on violent officials from four to 12 years. . The presidential administration is proposing that by the second reading, the law provide for the punishment of cellmates who torture the victim at the behest of both government officials and the authorities.
🤐 Torture is, of course, not a new concept in Russia. Yet although the periods of the 20th century are public and date back to the famous 1956 conviction of Stalin by his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian state has refused to fully recognize the past. Failure to condemn the sins of the past means that they will be subconsciously accepted in the present. In Russia, we are witnessing the long-term consequences of a confronted past. Vladimir Putin has integrated his own repressive tactics into the political system.
👉 Vladimir Putin acknowledged that torture became more common in Russia, but “when it comes to torture and the cruel treatment of prisoners in prisons, it is not just a problem in Russia, but in the whole world.” Of course, such international pointing and blaming is part of Putin’s leadership style. Where does this leave new attention to the fight against torture? Does it not accuse individual officials instead of understanding the crux of the matter: a corrupt state?
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“Please leave the word ‘Holocaust’ to the Holocaust – and nothing more than that.”
– Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau said in a Reuters interview, criticizes certain protesters against coronavirus restrictions that had compared themselves to Jews persecuted by the Nazis. The comment comes when a report was released today in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Women Leaders v. Peter CEOs? Dutch women oppose amazing gender inequality
When you logged in to Dutch LinkedIn earlier this week, you may have blinked twice. “Why are there so many people on my timeline named ‘Peter’?” And why are they all women? ”
Hundreds of Dutch women have changed their LinkedIn name to Peter since Monday to condemn gender bias in business – especially in senior management positions.
The initiative was launched by Women Inc. and BrandedU, two organizations campaigning to increase women in the corporate world and reset the name Peter for good reason: 93 listed companies in the Netherlands (and a total of 94 CEOs), five of whom are named Peter and four are women. Yes, Peter’s CEOs more than CEOs…
On 1 January, Dutch law came into force to ensure a better relationship between men and women in the forefront of business. At least one third of the boards of listed companies (more than 250 employees) must be women. “But we need to do more!” organizations reported.
Yeliz Çiçek, Editor-in-Chief of the Dutch edition Vogue, was one of the first women to join the campaign and change her name. “I think it’s great. Everyone immediately understands what this is all about!” NOS reports.
While they support it, others are less enthusiastic about this campaign and claim that changing the name erases the identity. RTL news. “Once again, the burden of proof and effort in the campaign is on women and not men,” one woman said.
Meanwhile, some men have changed their names to Petra for their solidarity.
“We think this spontaneous action is really great,” another spokeswoman for Women INC said Het Password. “This shows that it’s not just a women’s problem, we have to do it together.”
The Peter (and Petra) campaign runs until January 28th.
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