A European human rights advocate has asked Russia to explain reports police used excessive force to disperse anti-Kremlin protests and committed rights abuses, and reminded Moscow of peoples' right to freedom of assembly.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Georgy Malets didn’t make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.
FILE PHOTO: Protestors rally in support of Russian politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo/File Photo
The 30-year-old Russian photo blogger said the police told him he had been identified by a “Face-ID” camera system and must accompany them to a police station for checks.
“I could see they had some kind of photographs, but they weren’t from cameras - it was definitely a photograph from my profile on social networks,” Malets told Reuters.
Inhabitants of remote Greek islands received the COVID-19 vaccine this week as the government rolled out its inoculation campaign to include tiny villages, some with no more than a couple of dozens inhabitants.
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LA PAZ (Reuters) - The mysterious deaths of 35 giant condors, one of the world’s largest flying birds, are being probed in Bolivia, where they are often found in the Andean regions.
The corpses of the condors, a goat and two dogs were found an hour and a half from the Bolivian city of Tarija, on the border with Argentina.
The Andean condor, which can grow as long as 4 feet (1.22 m) with a huge wingspan of 10.5 feet, is “vulnerable,” according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. There are some 6,700 of the species worldwide but numbers are falling, hurt by issues from lead poisoning, to habitat loss and hunting.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - America seems to have a chronic shortage of a certain type of employee: Programmers and coders who thrive in high-tech environments.
An undated photo of Kelly Grier, EY s U.S. Chair and Managing Partner and Americas Managing Partner. Courtesy EY/via REUTERS
Well, Kelly Grier has a tip: They are out there. You are just not looking in the right place.
The U.S. Chair and Americas managing partner for professional services and consulting company EY, Grier helps spearhead the firm’s development of “neurodiverse” teams. The aim is to tap employees who might think or act a little differently than most, but have incredible talents to offer.