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Anonymous ID: 002ce8 Sept. 16, 2022, 7:42 a.m. No.17527722   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7815 >>8072 >>8296

NEW: UN nuclear agency resolution seeks Russian retreat from Ukraine atomic plant

 

September 15, 2022 12:46 pm

 

The UN nuclear agency’s board of governors on Thursday asked Russia to withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, two diplomats said.

 

The text, submitted by Canada and Poland, was approved by 26 of the 35 member states sitting on the Council.

 

China and Russia voted against, while seven countries — Burundi, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Senegal, South Africa and Vietnam — abstained.

 

“The (IAEA) Board of Governors has sent another strong message to Russia: cease immediately all actions threatening nuclear safety and security, and return the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and all other Ukrainian territory to control,” Australian ambassador Richard Sadleir tweeted.

 

Another diplomat confirmed the move.

 

The resolution supports the efforts of the IAEA which has been in talks with Russia and Ukraine over setting up a security zone around the nuclear plant.

 

Already in March, the IAEA passed a resolution warning about the “unprecedented danger of a nuclear accident” that would endanger not just the population of Ukraine but Europe as a whole.

 

The largest nuclear power plant in Europe has been a focal point of fighting in recent weeks, reviving fears of a nuclear incident.

 

A team of IAEA experts inspected the plant in early September.

Anonymous ID: 002ce8 Sept. 16, 2022, 7:50 a.m. No.17527757   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7815 >>8072 >>8296

https://twitter.com/JustTheNews/status/1570776659024052225

 

D.C. city lawmakers pushing plan to give all residents $100 a month to ride municipal buses, rails

 

Eight of the city council's 14 members appear to support the measure.

 

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By Joseph Weber

Updated: September 16, 2022 - 9:33am

 

The Democrat-led Washington, D.C., City Council is again trying to pass a measure that will give every resident $100 a month to ride the city's municipal bus and rails system.

 

The measure, if passed, would put a recurring $100 balance on a resident’s fare card and make a $10 million annual investment in improving municipal bus service and infrastructure in the nation's capital, according to the blog site PoPville.com.

 

"No matter how you slice it, an extra $100 a month saved on transportation would help a lot of D.C. residents and it would be a great boost to our [transit] system at a time when it needs to recover," said Democrat Council member Charles Allen, the bill's sponsor, who also says the plan will not require a tax increase.

 

The overall cost of the plan is projected at about $100 million, according to the news website DCist.

 

The site reports the measure is still a work in process, with such compelling details as "how the money is doled out" still to be be resolved.

 

Eight of the city council's 14 members appear to support the measure.

Anonymous ID: 002ce8 Sept. 16, 2022, 8:16 a.m. No.17527848   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8072 >>8296

NEW: China records first monkeypox case

 

China records first monkeypox case

AFPSeptember 16, 2022 10:10 am

 

Source: Pixabay

China recorded its first case of monkeypox on Friday in a person who had recently entered the country, officials said.

 

Health authorities in the southwestern city of Chongqing said the person displayed symptoms while undergoing quarantine for Covid-19.

 

Under China’s zero-Covid policy, people entering the country must typically complete between one and two weeks of isolation on arrival.

 

The monkeypox patient was diagnosed after developing symptoms including a skin rash, the city health commission said in a report, categorising the case as an “imported infection”.

 

The patient “is undergoing centralised isolation at a designated hospital and is in a stable condition”, the report said.

 

Because the patient had been immediately isolated upon entering the city, “there are no traces of social transmission, and the risk of transmission is low”, it said.

 

Last week, Hong Kong logged its first monkeypox case in a 30-year-old man who showed symptoms while undergoing the city’s three-day Covid quarantine period for arrivals.

 

The patient had no contact with the community, according to a health official, who said the risk of Hong Kongers getting infected was “very low”.

 

https://insiderpaper.com/china-records-first-monkeypox-case/

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