Fragile Bird Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Two big stories: cable car crashes in Italy, killing at least 12. Children appear to have survived and have been taken to hospital. Secondly, at least 21 dead after an ultra marathon in northern China went bad. Part of the 100-km marathon went over a mountain and the temperatures dropped, bringing rain, hail, snow and high winds, killing the runners, including two elite Chinese athletes. Rescue operations searched for 142 runners on the mountain. Presumably the death toll could increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 It seems Belarus diverted a plane from Greece to Lithuania to arrest dissident journalist. What a nightmare and the guy is facing the death penalty. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860.amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotting sea cow Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 Sounds similar to an incident involving a S. American head of state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luzifer's right hand Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 36 minutes ago, rotting sea cow said: Sounds similar to an incident involving a S. American head of state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident Yeah I remember that. Although I guess that was worse from a diplomatic point of view as a head of state was involved. No fighter plane though afaik and the pilots requested the landing because other countries closed their air spaces. That our government was willing to search the plane was I disgrace though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loge Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 3 hours ago, Luzifer's right hand said: It seems Belarus diverted a plane from Greece to Lithuania to arrest dissident journalist. What a nightmare and the guy is facing the death penalty. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57219860.amp Well, they were in Belorusian air space and there is an arrest warrant against the guy. If it had been Snowden crossing US territory the same thing would probably have happened. The guy should have known better than board that flight. Surely there's another way to get from Athens to Vilnius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 16 hours ago, Fragile Bird said: Two big stories: cable car crashes in Italy, killing at least 12 13. Unlucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Loge said: Well, they were in Belorusian air space and there is an arrest warrant against the guy. If it had been Snowden crossing US territory the same thing would probably have happened. The guy should have known better than board that flight. Surely there's another way to get from Athens to Vilnius. Using a fake threat to force a plane to land is dangerous because it means that Ryanair will now likely brief its pilots to ignore instructions from Belarusian air traffic control in future (unless they are actually flying to Belarus), which could be dangerous in the improbable event they really do learn of a real threat to an aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padraig Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 3 hours ago, Loge said: Well, they were in Belorusian air space and there is an arrest warrant against the guy. If it had been Snowden crossing US territory the same thing would probably have happened. The guy should have known better than board that flight. Surely there's another way to get from Athens to Vilnius. Depends on how important he thought he was to Belarus. Who told Belarus that he was on the flight? The Russians? Or were Belarus keeping him under active surveilance in Greece? In hindsight, sure. But did anyone think Belarus would cause an international incident for this guy? Clearly he didn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 According to the BBC, KGB agents followed him onto the flight and disembarked when he was arrested. Also apparently his girlfriend sitting next to him, who isn’t wanted for any supposed crimes, was arrested too. It does seem like it’s going to cause them more trouble than it’s worth for arresting one dissident journalist but sounds like it was just a whim of Lukashenko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 The UK has now advised planes to avoid Belarus airspace and revoked the permit of the Belarussian national airline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 24, 2021 Share Posted May 24, 2021 10 hours ago, Werthead said: Using a fake threat to force a plane to land is dangerous because it means that Ryanair will now likely brief its pilots to ignore instructions from Belarusian air traffic control in future (unless they are actually flying to Belarus), which could be dangerous in the improbable event they really do learn of a real threat to an aircraft. I heard on NPR that they were closer to Vilnius’ airport than the Minsk Airport they were forced to divert to. If this was an emergency they should have been vectored to the closest useable airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ithanos Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 3 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: I heard on NPR that they were closer to Vilnius’ airport than the Minsk Airport they were forced to divert to. If this was an emergency they should have been vectored to the closest useable airport. Apparently the threat notice was... "If you do not fulfill our demands, the bomb will explode over Vilnius". Specific enough to avoid the Lithuanian capital. Protasevich must've known his whereabouts was being monitored by Belarussian KBG - having been on their terrorist list since Nov 2020. Either he was geographically unaware a direct flight from Athens to Vilnius flies over Belarus airspace or he did know and was complacent enough to think they would never risk such a stunt with a commercial flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 7 hours ago, ithanos said: Apparently the threat notice was... "If you do not fulfill our demands, the bomb will explode over Vilnius". Specific enough to avoid the Lithuanian capital. Protasevich must've known his whereabouts was being monitored by Belarussian KBG - having been on their terrorist list since Nov 2020. Either he was geographically unaware a direct flight from Athens to Vilnius flies over Belarus airspace or he did know and was complacent enough to think they would never risk such a stunt with a commercial flight. To be fair, I don’t think anyone thought they would do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loge Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Looks like Putin is behind the whole thing. He got scared by last year's protests. He's afraid the same might happen in Russia, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 https://ureport.in/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 https://www.mpnrc.org/twitter-instagram-facebook-ban-in-india-news-after-new-rules/#:~:text=On Feb 25%2C 2021 India,FB%2C Whatsapp and Instagram etc.&text=New policies will be in,in India for big companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 1 hour ago, TheLastWolf said: https://www.mpnrc.org/twitter-instagram-facebook-ban-in-india-news-after-new-rules/#:~:text=On Feb 25%2C 2021 India,FB%2C Whatsapp and Instagram etc.&text=New policies will be in,in India for big companies. How? How will India ban those social media platforms? Sonicwall filter for the entire country? Fines or criminal sanctions if an individual uses these platforms? How? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: How? How will India ban those social media platforms? Sonicwall filter for the entire country? Fines or criminal sanctions if an individual uses these platforms? How? Using cow dung urine milk concoction prepared by BJPRSSMODISHAH Potangoli pvt limited. Right wing racist, religious fascist fanatics. Xenophobic. Chauvinistic. Misogynistic. Bigots. Zealots. Idealogues. Still more words. Supposedly the main opposition launched a toolkit in Twitter to combat the devastating second wave, failed by the center. BJP centre edited it and posted only to have Twitter tag it misinformation. Dissent poured in. Now you have this. Freedom of speech expression only on paper. Constitution my foot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I have noticed in the last few days the almost complete dearth of any reporting on India and covid-19. Nearly zero, when it was on the top of the news every day prior, at least certainly the top of covid-19 reporting, and world news reporting. Today, nothing on the front of either the NY Times or the WaPo. Go to World section, and the only reporting is one of those fairly useless human interest stories about how families are coping. No reporting on conditions, vaccinations, deaths, numbers, nothing at all. If one does do some digging though, inside the covid section, and dig one must, one will find "updated" graphs for the numbers in India. Which numbers, seem to be falling. Which, I go, "Can we thank gods for this or is this non-reporting?" Belarus's military plane jacking and the Tokyo Olympics have pride of place in international news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiko Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 14 hours ago, Zorral said: I have noticed in the last few days the almost complete dearth of any reporting on India and covid-19. Nearly zero, when it was on the top of the news every day prior, at least certainly the top of covid-19 reporting, and world news reporting. Today, nothing on the front of either the NY Times or the WaPo. Go to World section, and the only reporting is one of those fairly useless human interest stories about how families are coping. No reporting on conditions, vaccinations, deaths, numbers, nothing at all. If one does do some digging though, inside the covid section, and dig one must, one will find "updated" graphs for the numbers in India. Which numbers, seem to be falling. Which, I go, "Can we thank gods for this or is this non-reporting?" Belarus's military plane jacking and the Tokyo Olympics have pride of place in international news. One could almost believe that News papers value new news on the front pages over old news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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