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Belarus has been accused of hijacking a European jetliner and engaging in an act of state terrorism when it forced a Ryanair flight to perform an emergency landing in Minsk after a bomb threat and arrested an opposition blogger critical of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko
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Roman Protasevich, a former editor of the influential Telegram channels Nexta and Nexta Live, was detained by police after his flight was diverted to Minsk national airport. Minsk confirmed that Lukashenko ordered his military to scramble a Mig-29 fighter to escort the plane.
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Time to wind the blog down for the evening. Here are todayâs main events:
Four Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Melbourneâs northern suburbs, three of which are close contacts of the original case. Victoriaâs health minister, Martin Foley, has said there are no current plans for a lockdown.
The disability royal commission heard residents of a national disability insurance scheme accommodation provider in western Sydney were subjected to alleged instances of physical and racist verbal abuse.
The Australian of the year, Grace Tame, said the prime minister, Scott Morrison, responded to her powerful speech at this yearâs Australia Day awards ceremony by remarking, âWell, gee, I bet it felt good to get that outâ.
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Kristina Keneally, describes the vaccine rollout as a “shambles” on ABC News:
“And this slow rollout which sees us about 90th in the world - and the prime minister said we would be at the front of the queue - we’re about 90th in the world in the rollout of vaccines. That is affecting our economic recovery. Putting at jeopardy our health and wellbeing and making it harder for stranded Australians to get home.
“Particularly when it comes to aged care and disability care, it is embarrassing, it is risky, and it is wrong that we have had such a slow rollout of vaccines in residential aged care, in aged care workers, in disability.”