Bolivian voters have rejected a fourth term for President Evo Morales, according to official referendum results. Opposition supporters have celebrated in La Paz. Morales has said he’ll respect “final” returns.
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Well it’s been a week and a half rather than a week, but I’ve been lost in thought.
Line by line for H7N9…
My thanks go to the team at the World Health Organization for adding a downloadable line list for avian influenza A(H7N9) virus cases to their website.
This a great addition and will make following the seasonal outbreaks so much easier.
I don’t know when in 2016 it appeared, I just noticed a referral to it in the latest ProMED post and its seem that both go 2016’s disease outbreak news posts (19-Jan and 10-Feb have attached lists. I had been bemoaning the lack of detail for a while so this really is fantastic.
There don’t seem to be any lists from 2015. Should I push my luck further and ask if any of 2015’s cases will be added to a list retrospectively?
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Nazi genocide and “girls in bikinis” failing to sell Israel, experts say
Just 31 percent of US Jewish students view Israel as a democracy.
Israeli winner of Berlin Film Festival: Israeli government is ‘fascist’
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Israeli film-director Udi Aloni, 56, who won the top audience at Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, has labelled the Israeli government “fascist” and urged Germany to cease its military support to Israel.
At a Q&A session about his award-winning film Junction 48 hours before being presented with the Panorama Audience Award for best fiction film, Mr Aloni said Germany should stop supporting the “fascist regime of Israel”:
“Merkel does not mention the occupation and sells submarines to Netanyahu to continue such things.”
The 56-year-old also called Israel a “democracy of white people” and added that “in contrast to the [Israeli] prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
By the end of the session, he mentioned the Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammed al-Qiq as an example “non-Jews’ lack of rights in Israel”, saying that Qiq was dying in administrative detention without being accused of committing a crime.
In a response to Aloni’s comments, according to the Israeli Media, the Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev said that Israel should not fund films that slander it, refering to the financial support that Aloni’s film received from Israel’s Culture Ministry.
“Aloni’s statements were a clear proof that artists who subvert the state, defame it and hurt its legitimacy should not be funded by the tax payer. A sane country should not assist slanderers and denouncers who malign it, immediately after drinking from its coffers,” Regev stated.
The Israeli film director later clarified to Channel 10 that his comments “were directed against the Israeli government and not against the country, which I love. In contrast to the prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
Last year, more than 3,000 artists, including some of the country’s most prominent actors and directors, signed a petition against Ms Regev’s policies.
“Junction 48” – whose is a Arabic-language film that features mostly Palestinian actors – tells the story of a Palestinian rap star and his girlfriend who live near Tel Aviv in the mixed Jewish-Palestinian city of Lod, known until recently as one of the main drug-running centers of the Middle East.
Actress Samar Qupty said it should be easy for Palestinians to identify with the movie, even though it depicts people living lives that are radically different from strict Muslim traditions.
Her character, for example, allows a picture of her face to be used on a poster advertising a hip-hop concert, prompting members of her family to say they plan to injure her if she performs.
“It’s still a revolutionary movie because it doesn’t talk about the way we Palestinians are usually represented in the world,” Qupty said.
“We are representing ourselves by the new generation without trying to prove anything to anyone, with our ‘goods’ and ‘bads’,” she told Reuters in an interview. “We are trying to present what is the real new generation trying to do without making the reality looking any better or any worse.”
Obama unveils plan to close Guantanamo detention facility
The facility “undermines” security and serves as a recruitment tool for terrorists, the US president said. Under Obama’s plan, the remaining detainees would be transferred to American soil, a move Republicans reject.
Senate Republicans refuse to hold hearing on Obama Supreme Court nominee
Some Senate Republicans have officially rejected moving forward on any US Supreme Court nominee named by President Barack Obama. The White House has suggested it could outmaneuver the attempt to block an appointment.
Beijing deploys fighter jets in South China Sea as US warns against militarization
China has stationed fighter jets on Woody Island in the South China Sea, US officials have said. The news come days after Beijing installed surface-to-air missiles on the same disputed island.
Prank leaves Facebook ‘Nazis’ red in the face
It was the kind of Facebook phenomenon that’s become common in recent months: someone posts an image complaining of advantages given to refugees and wins hundreds of likes and shares.
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