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Jimmy Lai steunde massale protesten in Hongkong in 2019 en 2020 tegen het gezag van Beijing. De columns die hij schreef in zijn prodemocratische krant Apple Daily zijn hem duur komen te staan.
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HAVANA (ANP) - De Cubaanse regering heeft zondag buitenlandse luchtvaartmaatschappijen gewaarschuwd dat het land binnen 24 uur zonder brandstof voor vliegtuigen zit. Dat meldt het Spaanse persbureau EFE.
De regering in Havana wijt het tekort aan "de Amerikaanse agressie" tegen de export van olie naar Cuba. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft landen die olie naar Cuba exporteren gedreigd met importheffingen. Hij beschouwt het land als een bedreiging voor de Amerikaanse veiligheid.
Luchtvaartmaatschappijen hebben nog niet aangegeven wat ze zullen doen na de bekendmaking van de Cubaanse regering. Een anonieme functionaris van een Europese luchtvaartmaatschappij zei tegen AFP dat de maatregel een maand zal duren.
Cuba ontving olie uit Venezuela totdat de Verenigde Staten dit land op 3 januari aanvielen en president Nicolás Maduro en zijn vrouw oppakten.
De Cubaanse regering kondigde eerder al een pakket noodmaatregelen aan op het gebied van onderwijs, werk en transport om de energiecrisis in het land het hoofd te bieden. De olietekorten veroorzaken in Cuba hogere prijzen voor voedsel en transport, en brandstoftekorten en urenlange stroomstoringen.
De Cubaanse regering heeft zondag buitenlandse luchtvaartmaatschappijen gewaarschuwd dat het land binnen 24 uur zonder brandstof voor vliegtuigen zit. Dat meldt het Spaanse persbureau EFE.
De regering in Havana wijt het tekort aan "de Amerikaanse agressie" tegen de export van olie naar Cuba. De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump heeft landen die olie naar Cuba exporteren gedreigd met importheffingen. Hij beschouwt het land als een bedreiging voor de Amerikaanse veiligheid.
Luchtvaartmaatschappijen hebben nog niet aangegeven wat ze zullen doen na de bekendmaking van de Cubaanse regering. Een anonieme functionaris van een Europese luchtvaartmaatschappij zei tegen AFP dat de maatregel een maand zal duren.
Cuba ontving olie uit Venezuela totdat de Verenigde Staten dit land op 3 januari aanvielen en president Nicolás Maduro en zijn vrouw oppakten.
De Cubaanse regering kondigde eerder al een pakket noodmaatregelen aan op het gebied van onderwijs, werk en transport om de energiecrisis in het land het hoofd te bieden. De olietekorten veroorzaken in Cuba hogere prijzen voor voedsel en transport, en brandstoftekorten en urenlange stroomstoringen.
Sentencing of media tycoon is the culmination of a years-long saga that critics say represents Hong Kong’s transformation from a mostly free city to one where dissent is fiercely suppressed
Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a punishment his daughter said could mean “he will die a martyr behind bars”.
Claire Lai said the sentence was “heartbreakingly cruel” given her 78-year-old father’s declining health, while her brother Sebastien Lai called the sentence “draconian” and “devastating”.
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Jon Kudelka, the Australian political cartoonist, has died at the age of 53.
His wife, Margaret Kudelka, announced the news in a statement on Monday: “We are sad to tell you that our beloved, brilliant Jon Kudelka died peacefully in South Hobart on Sunday afternoon, surrounded by his family and friends.”
Continue reading...The biggest US sports night of the year is also set to be a major cultural event with Bad Bunny following up his Grammys triumph and a set of A-list ads
We’re drifting dangerously close to the football here, but the teams are taking the field with the now-traditional blessing of some celebrity fans. First up, longtime Seattle Seahawks diehard Chris Pratt, who introduces his hometown team with his young son.
As a procession of Super Bowl MVPs walk on to the pitch Green Day take to the stage, opening with Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) and segueing into Holiday. As the crowd on the pitch pump devil-horns foam fingers , the trio look like they’re having a great time, and Billie Joe Armstrong still sounds incredible. After a bit of Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the short set climaxes with American Idiot accompanied by a bizarre lineup of football legends like of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Joe Montana onto the stage. A fun, punchy opener.
Continue reading...Observers fear that conviction under national security law could come under the most severe penalty band of 10 years to life imprisonment. Follow the latest developments, live
Here are some images of Jimmy Lai at pro-democracy protests across Hong Kong over the years:
Progressing from child labourer to billionaire, Jimmy Lai used his power and wealth to promote democracy, which ultimately pitted him against authorities in Beijing.
Continue reading...Ukrainian president says the power infrastructure generates money for Moscow so is akin to a military target. What we know on day 1,447
Russian energy infrastructure is a legitimate target for Ukrainian strikes because the energy sector is a source of funds for the production of weapons, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “We do not have to choose – whether we strike a military target or energy … it’s the same thing,” the Ukrainian president said on X on Sunday. “We either build weapons and strike their weapons. Or we strike the source where their money is generated and multiplied. And that source is their energy sector … All of this is a legitimate target for us.” Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy grid in a campaign of attacks that has been called Moscow’s weaponisation of winter.
Authorities in Dubai have arrested and handed over to Russia a man suspected of shooting and wounding a senior officer in Russia’s intelligence services, according to Moscow’s security service. Rory Carroll and Pjotr Sauer report that Sunday’s announcement came two days after a gunman shot Lt Gen Vladimir Alekseyev on the stairwell of his Moscow apartment, leaving him in a critical condition. The federal security service (FSB) said a Russian citizen was detained in Dubai on suspicion of carrying out the shooting. Television images showed masked FSB officers escorting a blindfolded man from a jet in Russia in the dark. The FSB said it had also identified two “accomplices”, one of whom was detained in Moscow and another who “left for Ukraine”.
Zelenskyy said the US had given Ukraine and Russia yet another deadline to reach a peace settlement and was now proposing the war should end by June, reports Donna Ferguson. The Ukrainian president also hinted that the new deadline could be linked to Trump’s US midterm elections campaign. Zelenskyy told reporters that both Ukraine and Russia had been invited to further talks this week.
A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said on Sunday. The attack on the city of Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region caused a fire in a nine-story apartment block, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Russia also struck energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava region overnight into Sunday, Ukraine’s state-owned gas company Naftogaz said.
Kyiv’s foreign minister said the Ukrainian and Russian leaders needed to meet in person to hash out the hardest remaining issues in peace talks, and that only the US president had the power to bring about an agreement. “Only Trump can stop the war,” Andrii Sybiha told Reuters. From the 20-point peace plan that has formed the basis of recent trilateral negotiations, only “a few” items remained outstanding, Sybiha said. “The most sensitive and most difficult, to be dealt with at the leaders’ level.”
Zelenskyy said he was imposing sanctions on some foreign manufacturers of components for Russian drones and missiles which it uses against Ukraine. “Producing this weaponry would be impossible without critical foreign components, which the Russians continue to obtain by circumventing sanctions,” he said on X.
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