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Police officers detain a man during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Vladivostok, Russia, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. As part of a multipronged effort by the authorities to discourage Russians from attending Sunday s demonstrations, the Prosecutor General s office ordered the state communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to block the calls for joining the protests on the internet. (AP Photo/Aleksander Khitrov)
MOSCOW Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 5,000 people were detained by police, according to a monitoring group, and some were beaten.
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First responders from West Africa build expertise to use chemical emergency management tools
Chemical emergency first responders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) enhanced their skills in using the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) and the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) during an online workshop. The training was conducted from 28 to 29 April by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Population Protection Institute of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic.
The course leader from the Population Protection Institute, Lt Col Ladislava Navrátilová, stressed: “The Institute fully supports OPCW’s endeavour to strengthen chemical safety and emergency preparedness in Africa during this challenging time. We are committed to further advancement of chemical emergency response capacities on that continent.”
Date Time
First responders from West Africa build expertise in chemical emergency management
Chemical emergency first responders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) enhanced their skills in using the Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER) and the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) during an online workshop. The training was conducted from 28 to 29 April by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Population Protection Institute of the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic.
The course leader from the Population Protection Institute, Lt Col Ladislava Navrátilová, stressed: “The Institute fully supports OPCW’s endeavour to strengthen chemical safety and emergency preparedness in Africa during this challenging time. We are committed to further advancement of chemical emergency response capacities on that continent.”
April 30, 2021 at 4:14 pm
Influential American academic Noam Chomsky asked what he called a simple question in a recent interview with the journalist Ezra Klein for the
New York Times: Is the situation of the Uyghurs, a million people who ve been through education camps, is that worse than the situation of, say, two million and twice that many people in Gaza? I mean, are the Uyghur[s] having their power plants destroyed, their sewage plants destroyed, subjected to regular bombing? Is it not happening to them? Not to my knowledge.
In that particular segment, he summarised the political worldview of many progressives and other figures in what has been known as the New Left .