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有些瑣碎時事略有趣味想隨便聊聊，但可以預見感興趣的蔥油不多，免得每次都開新貼子擠佔首頁。
（連登有一個相似的貼子已經開到第7期 https://lihkg.com/thread/1256194/page/31 。不妨參觀一下，那位連登仔搬運很多不同地方的政治新聞。）
本貼規則：請盡量將話題限於中國大陸以外的時事。
（連登有一個相似的貼子已經開到第7期 https://lihkg.com/thread/1256194/page/31 。不妨參觀一下，那位連登仔搬運很多不同地方的政治新聞。）
本貼規則：請盡量將話題限於中國大陸以外的時事。
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Mayor of Tel Aviv
@MayorOfTelAviv
In solidarity with the residents of our partner city, Barcelona and with the people of #Spain, who are fighting against the #CoronaVirus, we have lit up the Municipality Hall with the Spanish flag. En solidaridad con nuestros amigos españoles.
¡Viva España! ¡Viva Israel!
https://twitter.com/MayorOfTelAviv/status/1239977577995014144
以色列特拉維夫與加泰巴斯隆拿風月同天。
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52000173
Former Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus while in prison.
He is now in isolation, according to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association.
Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault last month and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
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Former Hollywood producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for coronavirus while in prison.
He is now in isolation, according to Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association.
Weinstein was found guilty of rape and sexual assault last month and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
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《新聞周刊》獨家專稿
NEWSWEEK
Exclusive: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
By William M. Arkin On 3/18/20 at 7:00 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-top-secret-plans-if-coronavirus-cripples-government-1492878
NEWSWEEK
Exclusive: Inside The Military's Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government
By William M. Arkin On 3/18/20 at 7:00 AM EDT
Even as President Trump says he tested negative for coronavirus, the COVID-19 pandemic raises the fear that huge swaths of the executive branch or even Congress and the Supreme Court could also be disabled, forcing the implementation of "continuity of government" plans that include evacuating Washington and "devolving" leadership to second-tier officials in remote and quarantined locations.
But Coronavirus is also new territory, where the military itself is vulnerable and the disaster scenarios being contemplated -- including the possibility of widespread domestic violence as a result of food shortages -- are forcing planners to look at what are called "extraordinary circumstances".
Above-Top Secret contingency plans already exist for what the military is supposed to do if all the Constitutional successors are incapacitated. Standby orders were issued more than three weeks ago to ready these plans, not just to protect Washington but also to prepare for the possibility of some form of martial law.
[...]
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-top-secret-plans-if-coronavirus-cripples-government-1492878
《新聞周刊》獨家專稿By William M. Arkin On 3/18/20 at 7:00 A...
萬一聯邦政府順位全掛掉，各州政府自行運轉，我估計也沒差吧。
支那病毒真厲害，促成也門內戰停火……
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/yemens-warring-parties-back-u-n-call-for-truce-idUSKBN21D0KN
Yemen warring parties back U.N. truce call, as U.S. starts aid reduction
Mohammed Ghobari, Lisa Barrington
5 MIN READ
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen’s warring parties welcomed a U.N. call for an immediate truce on Thursday as the country entered its sixth year of a conflict that has unleashed a humanitarian crisis, rendering it more vulnerable to any coronavirus outbreak.
FILE PHOTO: A girl wears a protective face mask amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sanaa, Yemen March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
In response, the United Nations’ Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths said he would call the parties to a meeting to “put their words into action”.
A Saudi-led military coalition said late on Wednesday that it backed the Yemeni government’s acceptance of the U.N. appeal. Their foe, the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, welcomed that stance but said it wants to see implementation on the ground.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) meanwhile said it had started to reduce aid to areas controlled by the Houthis, on concerns the group hinders the delivery of assistance, a spokesperson told Reuters.
The new coronavirus has yet to be documented in the impoverished Arabian peninsula nation where conflict has killed more than 100,000 and left millions on the brink of starvation.
Following his call for a global ceasefire to focus on combating the pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged Yemen’s parties to end hostilities and restart peace talks last held in December 2018.
The Sunni Muslim coalition, which intervened in Yemen in March 2015, supports efforts for a ceasefire, de-escalation, confidence-building measures and work to prevent a coronavirus outbreak, spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said in a statement.
“The coalition’s announcement ... is welcome. We are waiting for it to be applied practically,” a senior Houthi official, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, wrote on Twitter late on Wednesday.
Yemen had witnessed a lull in military action after Saudi Arabia and the Houthis launched back-channel talks late last year. But there has been a recent spike in violence that threatens fragile peace deals in vital port cities.
“We have a global coronavirus pandemic threatening to overwhelm an already broken health care system,” said Tamuna Sabadze, country director at the International Rescue Committee, adding that Yemen was already battling a large cholera outbreak.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis ousted the government from power in the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014. The group still controls most major urban centres despite years of war.
Millions are dependent on humanitarian aid in Yemen, but aid agencies in recent months have increasingly complained of interference and obstruction from Houthi authorities and threatened to scale down aid if conditions did not improve.
“The Houthis have failed to demonstrate sufficient progress towards ending unacceptable interference in these operations,” the USAID spokesperson said, adding that it would continue to support the most urgent life-saving assistance.
“The coronavirus crisis demonstrates now more than ever the need for our partners to be able to deliver aid to those who need it most without interference or delay.”
Aid agency Oxfam warned that USAID’s approach would endanger an effective coronavirus response, “leaving Yemen uniquely vulnerable to the most deadly pandemic in generations”, it said in a statement.
BAHA’I RELEASES
The head of the Houthi political office said on Wednesday the movement was open to de-escalation efforts with its foes, including prisoner releases.
Mahdi al-Mashat, in comments carried by al-Masirah TV, then ordered the release of all Baha’i faith members imprisoned by the Houthis, including Hamed bin Haydara whose death sentence was upheld earlier this week by a Sanaa court.
The Baha’i International Community welcomed the decision, which it said in a statement applied to six people “wrongfully imprisoned” for religious beliefs.
It said the order should lead to the lifting of charges brought in 2018 against around 20 members of the faith, which regards its 19th-century founder as a prophet. Muslim countries, including Iran where the sect originated, consider it an heretical offshoot of Islam.
Amnesty International said the move to release Baha’i prisoners was a “positive signal”, especially in light of the coronavirus.
“We reiterate our call on all parties to the conflict to immediately and unconditionally release all those imprisoned solely for their peaceful activism, expression or political views,” Amnesty Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf said.
Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari, Nayera Abdullah and Lisa Barrington; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Nick Macfie and Daniel Wallis
https://www.dw.com/en/yemen-houthis-welcome-saudi-support-for-ceasefire-amid-pandemic/a-52919921
Yemen: Houthis welcome Saudi support for ceasefire amid pandemic
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi "welcomed" the Saudi-led coalition's decision to support a ceasefire. The ceasefire proposal was a response to a UN call amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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A Houthi leader in Yemen on Wednesday "welcomed" an announcement by the Saudi-led coalition to support a ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said in a tweet that they are waiting for the ceasefire to be applied practically.
Earlier in the day, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen extended its support to the Yemeni government, after it accepted the United Nations Secretary-General's call for a ceasefire to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.
Saudi coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Malki said that they support the UN call for a ceasefire and de-escalation. He added that the coalition also backs the steps being taken to come up with confidence-building measures on the humanitarian and economic fronts.
Read more: Yemen: Has the suffering all been for nothing?
Yemen has been mired in a devastating conflict for the past five years, between Iran-backed rebels and Saudi-backed government forces.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the conflict relief agencies say. The UN says Yemen is "the world's worst humanitarian crisis" with more than 24 million people in need of assistance.
On Monday, Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire to protect war-ravaged communities from the coronavirus pandemic.
"It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives," he said, calling COVID-19 the world's "common enemy."
dvv/aw (Reuters, AFP, dpa)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/yemens-warring-parties-back-u-n-call-for-truce-idUSKBN21D0KN
Yemen warring parties back U.N. truce call, as U.S. starts aid reduction
Mohammed Ghobari, Lisa Barrington
5 MIN READ
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ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen’s warring parties welcomed a U.N. call for an immediate truce on Thursday as the country entered its sixth year of a conflict that has unleashed a humanitarian crisis, rendering it more vulnerable to any coronavirus outbreak.
FILE PHOTO: A girl wears a protective face mask amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sanaa, Yemen March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo
In response, the United Nations’ Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths said he would call the parties to a meeting to “put their words into action”.
A Saudi-led military coalition said late on Wednesday that it backed the Yemeni government’s acceptance of the U.N. appeal. Their foe, the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, welcomed that stance but said it wants to see implementation on the ground.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) meanwhile said it had started to reduce aid to areas controlled by the Houthis, on concerns the group hinders the delivery of assistance, a spokesperson told Reuters.
The new coronavirus has yet to be documented in the impoverished Arabian peninsula nation where conflict has killed more than 100,000 and left millions on the brink of starvation.
Following his call for a global ceasefire to focus on combating the pandemic, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urged Yemen’s parties to end hostilities and restart peace talks last held in December 2018.
The Sunni Muslim coalition, which intervened in Yemen in March 2015, supports efforts for a ceasefire, de-escalation, confidence-building measures and work to prevent a coronavirus outbreak, spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki said in a statement.
“The coalition’s announcement ... is welcome. We are waiting for it to be applied practically,” a senior Houthi official, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, wrote on Twitter late on Wednesday.
Yemen had witnessed a lull in military action after Saudi Arabia and the Houthis launched back-channel talks late last year. But there has been a recent spike in violence that threatens fragile peace deals in vital port cities.
“We have a global coronavirus pandemic threatening to overwhelm an already broken health care system,” said Tamuna Sabadze, country director at the International Rescue Committee, adding that Yemen was already battling a large cholera outbreak.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis ousted the government from power in the capital, Sanaa, in late 2014. The group still controls most major urban centres despite years of war.
Millions are dependent on humanitarian aid in Yemen, but aid agencies in recent months have increasingly complained of interference and obstruction from Houthi authorities and threatened to scale down aid if conditions did not improve.
“The Houthis have failed to demonstrate sufficient progress towards ending unacceptable interference in these operations,” the USAID spokesperson said, adding that it would continue to support the most urgent life-saving assistance.
“The coronavirus crisis demonstrates now more than ever the need for our partners to be able to deliver aid to those who need it most without interference or delay.”
Aid agency Oxfam warned that USAID’s approach would endanger an effective coronavirus response, “leaving Yemen uniquely vulnerable to the most deadly pandemic in generations”, it said in a statement.
BAHA’I RELEASES
The head of the Houthi political office said on Wednesday the movement was open to de-escalation efforts with its foes, including prisoner releases.
Mahdi al-Mashat, in comments carried by al-Masirah TV, then ordered the release of all Baha’i faith members imprisoned by the Houthis, including Hamed bin Haydara whose death sentence was upheld earlier this week by a Sanaa court.
The Baha’i International Community welcomed the decision, which it said in a statement applied to six people “wrongfully imprisoned” for religious beliefs.
It said the order should lead to the lifting of charges brought in 2018 against around 20 members of the faith, which regards its 19th-century founder as a prophet. Muslim countries, including Iran where the sect originated, consider it an heretical offshoot of Islam.
Amnesty International said the move to release Baha’i prisoners was a “positive signal”, especially in light of the coronavirus.
“We reiterate our call on all parties to the conflict to immediately and unconditionally release all those imprisoned solely for their peaceful activism, expression or political views,” Amnesty Middle East Research Director Lynn Maalouf said.
Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari, Nayera Abdullah and Lisa Barrington; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous; Editing by Nick Macfie and Daniel Wallis
https://www.dw.com/en/yemen-houthis-welcome-saudi-support-for-ceasefire-amid-pandemic/a-52919921
Yemen: Houthis welcome Saudi support for ceasefire amid pandemic
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi "welcomed" the Saudi-led coalition's decision to support a ceasefire. The ceasefire proposal was a response to a UN call amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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A Houthi leader in Yemen on Wednesday "welcomed" an announcement by the Saudi-led coalition to support a ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said in a tweet that they are waiting for the ceasefire to be applied practically.
Earlier in the day, the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen extended its support to the Yemeni government, after it accepted the United Nations Secretary-General's call for a ceasefire to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.
Saudi coalition spokesperson Colonel Turki al-Malki said that they support the UN call for a ceasefire and de-escalation. He added that the coalition also backs the steps being taken to come up with confidence-building measures on the humanitarian and economic fronts.
Read more: Yemen: Has the suffering all been for nothing?
Yemen has been mired in a devastating conflict for the past five years, between Iran-backed rebels and Saudi-backed government forces.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the conflict relief agencies say. The UN says Yemen is "the world's worst humanitarian crisis" with more than 24 million people in need of assistance.
On Monday, Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire to protect war-ravaged communities from the coronavirus pandemic.
"It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives," he said, calling COVID-19 the world's "common enemy."
dvv/aw (Reuters, AFP, dpa)