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world news Diahuebs 28 Januari 2021

Kate, Prince Charles pay tribute to Holocaust survivors

(AP) — Kate, the Duchess after the end of World War in educating the next gen-
of Cambridge, has praised II. She first met the men in eration, the younger genera-
Holocaust survivors for 2017 when she and her hus- tions, about your experiences
their inspirational work band, Prince William, visited and the horrors of the Holo-
educating the next gen- a former Nazi concentration caust shows extreme strength
eration about the Nazi camp built in occupied Po- and such bravery in doing so,
regime, as Prince Charles land. it’s so important and so inspi-
and other British public rational,” the royal told the
figures paid tributes to Shipper told the duchess that men at the end of the video
mark Holocaust Memo- after he was transported to call.
rial Day Wednesday. Auschwitz he witnessed ba-
bies being shot when their Prince Charles urged people
Kate held a video call last mothers refused to be sepa- to remember the Holocaust
week with Zigi Shipper, 91, rated from them. and “be the light that ensures
and Manfred Goldberg, 90, the darkness can never re-
who met as boys while in “The stories that you have turn.” Britain, including Wembley Wednesday evening to mark
a Nazi concentration camp both shared with me again Stadium and Cardiff Castle, the memorial day.
and later settled in Britain today and your dedication National monuments across will be bathed in purple light

Protesters in Lebanon clash with police over virus lockdown

infections have been record- On Wednesday, dozens of faced rising popular anger
ed since last February and protesters took to the streets since protesters took to the
2,553 deaths. for the third straight day in streets in October 2019, in
Tripoli, Lebanon’s second the largest-ever nationwide
To respond to the crisis, the largest city and the most im- protests in the country. Dem-
government has imposed a poverished, demanding an onstrators accused them of
nearly month-long nation- end to the lockdown. Some mismanaging and robbing
wide lockdown and round- tried to torch vehicles and the country of its resourc-
the-clock curfew, the strictest were beaten back by security es and driving it into pov-
since the virus hit Lebanon. forces firing tear gas and wa- erty. The protests later died
ter cannons. At least 20 were down, in part because of the
The measures have exacer- injured by tear gas and were pandemic but also because
bated a crippling economic treated on the spot. the political class held on to
and financial crisis that pre- power and divisions emerged
ceded the pandemic in this The protests are also a reflec- among the demonstrators.
small Mediterranean coun- tion of frustration at politi-
(AP) — Lebanese security coronavirus. try of nearly 5 million people cians who have been dead- On Wednesday, Lebanese of-
forces fired tear gas and and over 1 million refugees. locked over the formation of ficials unveiled the national
water cannons in clashes Meanwhile, Lebanon hit a The Lebanese currency has a new government for nearly vaccination plan, saying the
Wednesday with dozens new daily record for CO- tumbled, losing over 80% six months. The government government aims to inocu-
of protesters who took to VID-19 fatalities, registering of its value. Banks have im- resigned in August follow- late around 80% of the popu-
the street in the country's 76 deaths. Daily infections posed controls on withdraw- ing a massive blast at Beirut's lation by the end of the year.
north for a third consecu- have soared in recent weeks als and transfers to protect port, which killed over 200 The first batch of Pfizer-Bi-
tive day to denounce dete- and hospitals have struggled dwindling foreign reserves. people and injured thou- oNTech vaccines is sched-
riorating living conditions with COVID-19 patients, re- Unemployment and infla- sands. uled to arrive in Lebanon by
amid a strict lockdown to porting near full occupancy tion have skyrocketed. mid-February.
prevent the spread of the in ICU beds. Nearly 290,000 Lebanon’s ruling class has

New protests as Polish court seals divisive abortion ruling

(AP) — New protests day, responding to calls for highly critical of the ruling genital defects, and critics Termination of pregnancy
broke out in Polish cities new protests by women’s right-wing Law and Justice argue that it narrows the al- will now be allowed only if
Wednesday, shortly after groups that led weeks of mas- party. ready tight law to a near total the woman's health is threat-
the country's top court sive demonstrations last year ban of abortions. It was made ened or if the pregnancy is
confirmed its highly divi- against the initial Oct. 22 rul- The main opposition Civic in response to a motion from the result of a criminal act,
sive ruling that will fur- ing. Protests were also held Platform party condemned over 100 ruling party law- such as rape or incest.
ther tighten the predomi- in many other cities, under a the court's move as “a provo- makers, whose names have Until now, congenital defects
nantly Catholic nation’s heavy police presence. cation” by Law and Justice. not been made public. were the reason behind most
strict anti-abortion law. legal abortions in Poland.
In Warsaw, protesters later “The government is trying to
The Constitutional Tribunal marched through the city cover up its incompetence (in
published the justification of center to the ruling party's dealing with the pandemic)
its decision, which means it headquarters with signs of and is doing that in a cynical
can now be officially printed the leading “Women’s Strike” way,” Civic Platform leader
and take immediate effect. group and pro-LGBT rights Borys Budka tweeted.
The printing was expected rainbow flags. Like in last
later Wednesday. year's demonstrations, they Another opposition leader,
defied Poland’s pandemic Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz,
Opposition parties strongly ban on gatherings. tweeted urging the govern-
criticized the move. ment to “save the economy,
No violence was reported on don't set Poland ablaze.”
Thousands of people gath- either side. Last year's march-
ered outside the court build- es — some of which led to The court ruling bans the
ing in Warsaw late Wednes- clashes with police — were abortion of fetuses with con-