Sunday, 2 May 2021, 4:59 pm
As India is being devastated by COVID-19 cases that have
now passed a daily rate of 400,000, affluent and callous
Australia has taken the decision to suspend all flights
coming into the country till mid-month. The decision was
reached by the Morrison government with the blessing of the
State Premiers and the Labor opposition.
Not happy
with banning flights from India, the Morrison government
promises to be savage in punishing returnees who find ways
to circumvent the ban (for instance, by travelling via a
third country). Citizens who breach the travel ban can face
up to five years’ imprisonment and fines up to AU$66,000.
ABCDEFG SEOUL, April 30 (Yonhap) The following is a summary of external news of North Korea this week.
Canada extends surveillance operation for violations of sanctions against N. Korea SEOUL, April 28 (Yonhap) Canada has extended a maritime surveillance program designed to capture violations of U.N. sanctions on North Korea for another two years amid persistent reports about Pyongyang s sanctions evasion. According to a joint government press release posted on the website of Canada s defense ministry, Operation NEON has been extended until April 30, 2023, as the country seeks to contribute to a coordinated multinational effort to support the implementation of U.N. Security Council sanctions against North Korea.
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Geoffrey Robertson is disillusioned. The world-famous barrister has, at 74, lost his belief in the effectiveness of international law. “I have not lost faith in the ICC [International Criminal Court]. I still think it’s necessary,” he tells me by phone from London, his voice more redolent of duty than of conviction. “But its catchment area is quite small.”
Robertson’s flamboyant persona is instantly recognisable: the bouffant hair, the plummy accent he sometimes says was acquired as a means to fit into snobbish London when he went to the bar there, and sometimes says was there before he left Australia. His mind may be a legal steel trap, but he has never been above burnishing his image. He is a showman, what men of a certain age like to call a “raconteur”. He gives lively public talks about his rise and rise in which he recounts well-oiled anecdotes, as he will doubtlessly do on his national tour this month to publicise his new book,
UN committee requests North Korea provide explanation on human rights violations
Posted : 2021-04-29 14:53
Updated : 2021-04-29 14:53
A woman wearing traditional dress and holding a North Korean flag watches a performance celebrating the 89th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People s Revolutionary Army, a precursor to the Korean People s Army, in Changjon Street in Pyongyang, April 25. A United Nations committee called on North Korea to provide an explanation on reported cases of human rights violations and to report any progress. AFP-Yonhap
A U.N. committee called on North Korea to provide an explanation on reported cases of human rights violations and to report any progress, its website showed Thursday.