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2021-06-23 22:35:49 GMT2021-06-24 06:35:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
GENEVA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The government of Switzerland confirmed Wednesday that several COVID-19 measures will be alleviated and "simplified significantly" starting from Saturday, and rules for foreigners entering the Alpine country will be eased, the Federal Council said in a statement.
"There are few measures left, but it is fundamental that they are followed properly," said head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs Alain Berset at a press conference.
Starting from Saturday, masks will not have to be worn outdoors, the statement said, including on railway platforms, at bus stops and in shopping halls.

Trudeau says China unwilling to admit problem over Uyghurs
ANI
24 Jun 2021, 06:55 GMT+10
Ottawa [Canada], June 24 (ANI): After China demanded an investigation into the discovery of the remains of indigenous children in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lashed out at Beijing, stressing that there was a difference between the matter and the communist country's systemic abuse against ethnic minorities including Uyghurs.
According to Canadian state broadcaster CTV News, Trudeau on Tuesday said that Canada knows its relationship with indigenous people is broken but it has a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is working to try and address the issues. On the other hand, China is not even willing to admit that there is a problem over the numerous human rights abuses against Uyghurs.

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You glimpse a light in the night sky -- not a star, not an airplane, but something radically different. It moves with baffling speed, pulsates with radiance beyond anything you've witnessed. Three letters immediately enter your mind: U-F-O.
Technically an unidentified flying object can be anything when you get right down to it, but the term has become synonymous with extraterrestrial spacecraft. Alleged sightings began popping up in the 1950s and continue to this day throughout the world. Exact descriptions of alien spacecraft vary with each telling, but witnesses often describe a lighted object capable of hovering silently and zigzagging in midair.

US-Russia Summit: The return of diplomacy
Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
As the US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up their bilateral summit in Geneva on June 16 addressing separate press conferences after a three-and-a-half hour discussion, there was a clear shift to a sedate, measured tone on both sides. Biden went so far as to say that there was a ‘genuine prospect to significantly improve relations between our two countries.’
While this does not mean a miraculous turnaround that would end all confrontation in the US-Russia relationship, it does signal progress in returning to discussions that are pragmatic, open, and realist in nature. For a relationship marked by bitter disagreements that had continued to touch ‘new lows’ every few months since 2014, this, in itself, is a major achievement.

By Mariel Kieval
Why don’t you go ahead and tell me a little bit about your background and briefly introduce yourself?
Thanks to Crude Accountability for everything—not only the event last week, but all the work that you and your colleagues do specifically on Turkmenistan. Hopefully you were there to see me in the talk last week really singing the praises of
, the report that fills this massive gap in our understanding of certainly Turkmenistan and post-Soviet transnational corruption and kleptocracy. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in northern Kazakhstan, which was my exposure to the post-Soviet world and certainly to Central Asia, to say nothing of the kind of governance structures. I went to graduate school for Russian and Soviet studies, and ended up getting interested in writing on and investigating transnational corruption, which is what we now understand to be kleptocracy—how these regimes access Western financial systems and enablers, how money moves, how it’s hidden and laundered.

Les ex-enfants placés en famille d'accueil, devenus majeurs, en quête de soutien
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Dès 18 ans, les anciens enfants placés en famille d'accueil ne bénéficient plus d'aide de l'ASE. Une situation que déplorent certaines associations. (image d'illustration) © Getty Images/Mladen Zivkovic
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Aram Mbengue
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Les assises nationales de la protection de l'enfance se déroulent ce jeudi 24 juin à Nantes, l'occasion pour les professionnels et bénévoles de réfléchir sur les moyens d'améliorer les conditions de vie des enfants placés en foyer ou en famille d'accueil. Un projet de loi dans ce sens a d’ailleurs été présenté en conseil des ministres le 16 juin dernier et passera pour étude à l’Assemblée nationale le mois prochain. Mais les associations déplorent le fait qu’il n’y ait rien de prévu pour soutenir les anciens enfants placés.

Fadzai Mahere-Petina Gappah Legal Row Takes A New Dramatic Twist
Fadzai Mahere
THE case in which Harare lawyer and politician Fadzai Mahere is suing another legal practitioner Petina Gappah, for $1 million for alleged defamation has taken a new twist with the latter standing by her word.
Gappah has filed an urgent chamber application with the High Court demanding release of certain documents which she says support her defence.
She is also defending the suit claiming that Mahere “extracted a tweet from her twitter feed, which was not all about her and inferred that it was” before she responded in a crude and disproportionate manner saying that Gappah has never been in a Zimbabwean courtroom, as such, should not call herself a lawyer.

В Украине завершилась основная сессия ВНО
Результаты удивили и родителей и учеников математику не смогла сдать 30% выпускников. 17 июня, Украинский центр оценивания качества образования (УЦОКО) разместил порог "сдал/не сдал" для тестов по иностранным языкам, математике и физике. И обнародованные результаты заставили удивляться украинцев, из-за низких показателей.
ЗНО. Фото: скриншот youtube
В тестировании участвовали выпускники школ – 56,45%, ученики профтехів, колледжей, вузов – 30,44%, выпускники прошлых лет – 13, 09.
В этом году ВНО не составили: 31,11% по математике, 10,68% по английскому языку, 15,79% по испанскому языку, по немецкому языку – 11,49%, по французскому языку – 8,94%, и по физике – 8,33%.
В Сети родители учителя и ученики начали комментировать результаты ВНО. Многие списали низкие показатели на дистанционное обучение. Некоторые возмущались чрезвычайно легкой задачей.
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Комментарии пользователей. Фото: скріншот Facebook
Больше всего дискуссий возникло из-за математики, ведь она стала обязательным предметом в 21 году для тех учеников которые несогласны с оцениванием предлагают подавать апелляцию. Тогда комиссия в составе 10 человек проверить и рассмотрит ответы на тесты. Понятно что жалобы и апелляции будут
Некоторые видят в низких баллах одинарную проверку вместо двойной, что ставит под сомнение ее объективность. Украинцы обвинили Минобразования, депутатов и власть в нехватке денег, и ненадлежащее проведение ВНО.
По словам преподавателя Тараса Ткачука и которому пришлось проверять тесты абитуриенты в этом году стали жертвами нововведения. Он отметил, что в этом году была только одна проверка письменных работ экзаменаторами. Тарас Ткачук обратился к украинцам и призвал не молчать, а также спросил "кто несет персональную ответственность в этой стране за то что на важном этапе проведения ВНО состоялось субъективное оценивание письменных работ".
Сергей Горбачев образовательный омбудсмен Украины настаивает, что ВНО не может быть показателем качества образования. Он добавил, что оценить качество образования в Украине можно только по результатам международного исследования PISA, которые будут не раньше 2022 года. А что касается вступительной компании, то в вузы поступят те дети, которые наберут достаточно баллов.
Напомним что те украинцы которые не сдали ВНО на основной сессии смогут сделать это на дополнительной 29 июня.
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Au forceps. L'équipe de France a terminé à la première place de son groupe après avoir réalisé un match nul (2-2) spectaculaire face au Portugal, jeudi 24 juin. Un résultat obtenu grâce à un doublé de Karim Benzema qui a répondu à celui de l'attaquant vedette des Portugais Cristiano Ronaldo, qui a inscrit ses deux buts sur penalty.

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U.S. and allies increase pressure on Russia to keep humanitarian aid route into Syria open
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Euro 2020: France, Germany, Portugal advance to final 16
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After struggling in his first two Euro 2020 outings and facing calls to be dropped, France’s Karim Benzema repaid coach Didier Deschamps’ faith with two goals to help the world champions qualify top of Group F on Wednesday.
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The vote in the 193-member General Assembly was 184 countries supporting the condemnation, the United States and Israel opposing it, and Brazil, Colombia and Ukraine abstaining. Four countries did not vote — Central African Republic, Myanmar, Moldova and Somalia.
Before the vote, the U.S. Mission’s political coordinator, Rodney Hunter, told the assembly that the Biden administration voted “no” because the United States believes sanctions are key to advancing democracy and human rights which “remain at the core of our policy efforts toward Cuba”. “Sanctions are a legitimate way to achieve foreign policy, national security, and other national and international objectives,” Mr. Hunter said, “and are one set of tools in our broader effort toward Cuba to advance democracy, promote respect for human rights, and help the Cuban people exercise the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” “We therefore oppose this resolution,” he said.

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National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and its chapters across the country are infamous for spreading this libelous claim. For instance, the website for its New York chapter states, “We are unapologetically anti-Zionist and take that as a non-negotiable tenet of our unity. We identify the establishment of the state of Israel as an ongoing project of settler-colonialism that will be stopped through Palestinian national liberation.”

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