Anonymous ID: 33f9d5 March 17, 2020, 1:38 a.m. No.8447363   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/03/16/US-will-act-in-self-defense-if-attacked-Pompeo-to-Iraq-PM.html

 

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi the US would take measures in self-defense if attacked, according to a statement on Monday, after a second rocket attack on an Iraqi base that houses US troops helping fight ISIS.

 

“Secretary Pompeo underscored that the groups responsible for these attacks must be held accountable. Secretary Pompeo noted that America will not tolerate attacks and threats to American lives and will take additional action as necessary in self-defense,” the statement read.

 

The two spoke on Sunday, a day after three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad, US and Iraqi officials said, raising the stakes in an escalating cycle of attacks and reprisals.

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Anonymous ID: 33f9d5 March 17, 2020, 1:45 a.m. No.8447386   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7457 >>7461

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-16/coronavirus-tesla-fremont-factory-musk

 

Tesla’s Fremont electric vehicle assembly plant, which employs about 10,000 workers, will remain open despite the “shelter in place” lockdown issued by six Bay Area counties on Monday.

 

Alameda County has declared Tesla an “essential business” that is allowed to remain in operation, according to a county spokesman.

 

What’s essential about automobile manufacturing in the midst of a viral pandemic? “That’s a good question,” said spokesman Ray Kelly, promising more information would be forthcoming. “We’re in uncharted waters right now.”

 

Operations will continue, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk told employees in a Monday night email. “If you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please do not feel obligated to come to work,” he said.

Anonymous ID: 33f9d5 March 17, 2020, 2:13 a.m. No.8447504   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7507 >>7540 >>7781 >>7861

https://www.unian.info/politics/10918055-iryna-venediktova-appointed-ukraine-s-new-prosecutor-general.html

 

Ukraine's parliament, has appointed Iryna Venediktova, former acting chief of the State Bureau of Investigation, the country's new Prosecutor General. The relevant decision was backed by 269 MPs, according to an UNIAN correspondent. After the vote, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who attended the extraordinary session, shook Venediktova's had to congratulate her. Venediktova called her first steps at the new post. She said it is necessary to conduct an audit of criminal cases and address staffing issues at prosecutorial offices across the country. "You know that 226 prosecutors on lustration and 400 prosecutors who were dismissed in the autumn are on the threshold – we already see court rulings on their reinstatement," she said.

 

ccording to Venediktova, it is therefore necessary to take informed and legal decisions so that the prosecutor's reform continues "without tilts," and on the other hand, so that "prosecutorial offices don't collapse once legal procedural decisions are made." Venediktova also emphasized the need to coordinate the work of all law enforcement agencies. As UNIAN reported earlier, on March 5, Ukrainian parliamentarians voted in favor of a motion of no confidence in the country's Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka. This entailed his immediate dismissal.

Anonymous ID: 33f9d5 March 17, 2020, 2:20 a.m. No.8447535   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7539

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3898754

 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The annual Hakka Tung Blossom Festival (HTBF, 桐花祭) hosted by the Hakka Affairs Council (HAC) will kick off in April.

 

Although the HAC has canceled a number of events as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus, the tung flower trails are still available for those who are up for some fresh air.

 

The HAC has opened beautiful walking trails and attractions in New Taipei, Taoyuan, and Hsinchu, along Taiwan Romantic Route 3, the 150-kilometer highway that connects northern and central Taiwan. The council has also suggested three half-day trips, including the Lin-mei walking trail and hot spring in Jiaoxi, Lin-chuen Temple (靈泉禪寺) and Fu-ming Park (富民親水公園) in Keelung, and the Ho-bao mountain trail (荷苞山登山步道) in Yunlin.

 

Aside from the trails, the Taiwan Hakka Cultural Museum will showcase landscape art by contemporary artist Yu Wen-fu (游文富) in Miaoli County from April 4 to May 24. "Tung flowers are extensions of our imagination, setting the scene for an entire season," said the HAC. "Yu uses natural materials found on the land to interpret a vast, expansive field of tung blossoms," added HAC.

 

Diabolo Dance Theatre (舞鈴劇場), a Taiwanese dance group consisting of young artists, will celebrate the blossoms with their performance "A Bloom Most Beautiful" on April 25 and 26. HAC said it is a show that redefines Hakka music.

Anonymous ID: 33f9d5 March 17, 2020, 3:08 a.m. No.8447691   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/03/spain-becomes-the-4th-most-virus-infected-nation-in-the-world/

 

Spain has become the fourth most virus-infected country in the world, surpassing South Korea with a sharp curve of contagion, and closing its borders is a “real possibility” being considered.

 

The topic will be discussed by European Union members on Monday, according to the country´s interior minister.

 

Coronavirus cases in Spain rose by roughly 1,000 cases in 24 hours to 8,744 on Monday, and the number of fatalities reached 297.