Oulanyah hands over office, Kadaga retains privileges after dissolving parliament
May 20, 2021 Jacob Oulanyah hands over office
Even after dissolving parliament and taking oath for the sixth term as Kamuli Woman MP, Rebecca Kadaga still enjoys the benefits of a speaker of parliament.
Although she is driven in a car with a private number plate, the rest of the cars in her convoy all have parliamentary registration number plates. Kadaga also still maintains her security detail made of about 20 police officers belonging to the Very-Very Important Persons (VVIP) protection Unit.
Some of the members of the parliamentary media team were also part of her entourage as she appeared before the NRM Electoral Commission along Kyadondo Road in Kampala on Wednesday afternoon to submit letters expressing interest in contesting for speaker of the 11th parliament.
Fighter Jets Will Soon Land on Aircraft Carriers Using GPS-Based JPALS 20 May 2021, 15:19 UTC ·
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For most civilians, the challenges of landing an aircraft on a carrier at sea are great unknowns. We got some semblance of an idea on how that is thanks to the countless documentaries out there and movies like Top Gun, but we’ll never truly understand what it takes. 1 photo
From the same documentaries and movies, we got the notion that pilots use both instruments and their heavily-trained intuition to land on a ship. Up to this point, though, mostly intuition, combined with experience, was what helped pilots slam on the deck of a ship at just the right moment to be trapped by a wire and brought to a stop.
Middle EastGermany s foreign minister defends Israel s right to self-defence
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Israel s right to defend itself includes the right to destroy infrastructure from which future attacks can be launched, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday at the start of a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Speaking at Ben Gurion Airport, Maas added that a durable peace would require that both Israelis and Palestinians be in a position to run their own affairs. We are convinced that life in security and peace is only possible in the long term if Israelis and Palestinians can run their own affairs, he said.
The Israeli security cabinet will vote on Thursday on a proposed unilateral Gaza truce that would go into effect within 24 hours, Israel's public broadcaster Kan said.