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On 21 May, the European Union celebrated the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Belarus, in memory of the political prisoner Vitold Ashurak, who died in Penal Colony No. 17 in Škloŭ on 21 May 2021. The cause and the circumstances of his death have not yet been investigated, recalled the high representative of the EU Josep Borrell in a statement. According to the EU, since the summer of 2020, Lukashenko’s regime has made more than 40,000 politically motivated arrests and prosecuted at least 12,000 politically motivated criminal cases. There are now almost 1,500 political prisoners in Belarus….

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Do you ever do a British accent just for fun? This has been around forever, mostly as a joke, but now Generation Z has taken it to a new level and become a TikTok craze. KDKA’s John Shumway is here with the trend and the reaction. If your kids have and you’ve wondered why, here it is. Gen Z, which is anyone between the ages of 9 and 24, seems to like the relaxed way a British or Australian accent rolls off the tongue. It’s no surprise since the accent has been comforting Bluey and Peppa Pig…

Factions of the Israel Bar Association clashed over support for judicial reform on Sunday night when the Bar’s vice president, Itzhak Natovich, reprimanded acting president Amit Bechar for speaking at an event in protest against the reform. Natovich, who ran in the Lawyers leadership election with the Zionist Legal Initiative faction, sent a letter to Bechar after the acting president had given a speech to the NGO Brothers in Arms. Natovich asked Bechar to stay out of politics and warned him that if the incumbent did not step down, his faction would try to impeach him and ensure he was…

From the Apopka Police Department Missing/endangered persons alert On May 20, Peter Lewis, a 60-year-old black man, was last seen in the area of ​​Jecenia Blossom Drive in Apopka. Mr. Lewis was at his residence and then left on foot in an unknown direction. Mr. Lewis was recently diagnosed with dementia. The family of Mr. Lewis advised that he has a tendency to become disoriented and confused. Mr. Lewis was last seen wearing glasses, a cut-off blue Nike T-shirt, blue checkered shorts and black dress shoes. If you have information on the whereabouts of Peter Lewis, please contact the Apopka…

Kannur: A day after Thalassery Archbishop Mar Joseph Pamplany’s comments on martyrs created controversy, the Thalassery Archdiocese has come out to justify the priest and his speech. “Some people with vested interests have misinterpreted the Archbishop’s speech. The culture of the Church is a culture that always respects martyrs. Several cases of martyrdom can also be observed in the political spheres. However, some people are victims of vested interests. The bishop encouraged us not to simulate these people,” the archdiocese explained in a statement issued on Monday. While addressing the KCYM youth day celebration in Kannur on Saturday, the archbishop…

Ali Shamkhani, one of the top figures in the Iranian establishment, has stepped down as the country’s security chief after nearly a decade. State media confirmed on Monday that President Ebrahim Raisi, as head of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has appointed Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as Shamkhani’s replacement. . Shamkhani had been appointed SNSC secretary in September 2013 and has been instrumental in shaping Iran’s security policies over the past decade. He appeared to announce his departure on Sunday afternoon by posting an excerpt of a cryptic poem on…

China’s foreign ministry says Japan’s actions were harmful to China’s sovereignty and security. China’s Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has summoned the Japanese ambassador to register protests over “exaggeration around China-related issues” at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in early week, the foreign ministry said in a statement. The heads of the world’s richest countries who met in the Japanese city of Hiroshima expressed serious concerns over rising tensions in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, as well as their concerns about the human rights situation in China, including in Tibet and Xinjiang. Sun said that…

Dear EDITOR: I had to laugh when I saw an article about Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman “blasting” Norfolk Southern over the latest train derailment in New Castle, as if the train driver wanted to own this derailment? My father worked for the PRR, Penn-Central and Conrail Railroad for 45 years. I can recall numerous times in the 1960s and 1970s when my father would go for days at a time to attend train derailments in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is nothing new! Today, thanks to social media, everyday events are a big deal. Just like roads and highways that are…