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Muslim leaders sign charter accepting secularism
https://news.yahoo.com/macron-hails-...153245933.html

The 10-article “charter of principles” comes after six weeks of sometimes fraught talks within the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), an umbrella body representing Islam in relation with the state.

The Elysée said the charter recognises two “essential political points”, namely “the refusal of all foreign influence” and “the rejection of political Islam” in France whose practitioners it defines as followers of Salafism or Wahhabism, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Tablighi Jamaat movement.

The text also eschews "nationalist" groups linked to Turkey. Mr Macron's administration has previously blasted President Erdogan's Justice and Development Party for meddling in France through its preachers.

A new system to license imams will require all preachers to sign the charter. They must commit to accepting sexual equality and condemning “all forms of racism, discrimination and hatred”. They must also acknowledge that cultural practices such as female genital mutilation, the use of virginity certificates or forced marriage “do not stem from Islam”.

The charter stipulates that claims Muslims are victims of "state racism" is tantamount to "slander".

The imams must also reject the notion of apostasy, the sin of renouncing the Muslim faith, which some radical branches deem punishable by death. Choice or rejection of religion is a fundamental French right, the charter stipulates.

The draft charter was welcomed by Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, who said: "Everything that goes in the direction of involving religious leaders in respecting the laws of France seems positive to me.”

Mr Macron’s staunch defence of French secularism and freedom of expression, including blasphemy, triggered protests in some Muslim countries in recent months.

However, his prime minister Jean Castex insisted: "This bill is not a text aimed against religions or against the Muslim religion in particular.”

"It is the reverse - it is a law of freedom, it is a law of protection, it is a law of emancipation against religious fundamentalism."

Imagine there's . . . no religion. (J. Lennon)

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“charter of principles”, ứng cử viên cho Phiên-Âm-Tự.

Cái này có giống "in ấn" không?

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Có nhiều loại chạt tơ, có khi là điều lệ, quy định hành chính, luật pháp mà cũng có khi chỉ là giao ước, hợp đồng về thương mại, dịch vụ, hay phương hướng hoạt động của một tổ chức.

Thường thấy nhất là "charter of rights" và có thể dùng làm cơ sở pháp lý. Còn "charter of principles" ở trên có vẻ giống như những điều hướng dẫn các tín đồ mà thôi, không có sức nặng như những điều cấm kỵ trong giáo lý.

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Còn "charter of principles" ở trên có vẻ giống như những điều hướng dẫn các tín đồ mà thôi, không có sức nặng như những điều cấm kỵ trong giáo lý.

Chắc dịch ra là "Mấy lời răn".

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Sợ bị lũ khốn phá thúi

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Germany fears attempts to sabotage vaccination drive — report

German vaccine manufacturers could be hit by cyberattacks and espionage, the federal government has warned. It also said the actions of conspiracy theorists could undermine vaccine efforts. Follow DW for the latest.


Germany's Interior Ministry says the country's vaccination drive could be sabotaged by conspiracy ideologues and cyberattacks

The German government has warned of suspected attempts to disrupt the coronavirus vaccination campaign by foreign intelligence groups as well as conspiracy theorists, according to a media report.

"Several suspected attempts to spy on German vaccine manufacturers have already become known," newspapers of the Funke media group quoted the Interior Ministry as saying. The statement was in response to a Green party inquiry.

The ministry added that the danger of cyberattacks was "classified as high."

The report said facilities for research, production, and approval of vaccines are considered potential targets for espionage and sabotage by foreign intelligence services.

The ministry also warned of possible disruptive action by conspiracy ideologues. Former TV chef turned conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann, for instance, wrote on his Telegram channel: "the syringes in vaccination centers resemble the bombs of the Dresden bombing," and told his followers that protests are pointless and that they must instead take targeted action "against injustice."

Green party politician Irene Mihalic said the recent storming of the US Capitol in Washington showed "how quickly absurd conspiracy narratives can turn into violence."

Vaccine update

AstraZeneca's planned reduction in COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to the European Union has sparked anger and frustration across the bloc.

Peter Liese, a German MEP, and coordinator of the European Parliament's Committee on Public Health told DW the pharmaceutical firm's actions go against its contract with the bloc.

"I'm really angry with this company. I think the last word is not yet spoken," he said, noting that the UK's vaccine supply will continue as planned but that deliveries to the bloc are expected to be curbed by 60%.

"This is completely unacceptable. We have a contract. The European Commission has a contract and they should fulfill [it].

Liese, who is also a medical doctor, said that he believes the company will likely change course. "I expect a change of the planning in the next hours, over the weekend, and we will get the vaccine in February. We will get millions of doses. I know a lot of people are fighting for this now," he said.

European regulators are due to decide by the end of January on approving the AstraZeneca-Oxford University coronavirus vaccine.

Europe


Portugal saw a record daily number of coronavirus deaths and new infections on Saturday, a day before its presidential elections. With 274 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the country's total death toll topped 10,000, the national health authority said.

It also recorded 15,333 new cases, the highest in the country of 10 million people since the beginning of the pandemic.

The Portuguese presidential vote comes 10 days after the country announced its second national lockdown. However, observers fear abstentions could be as high as 70% given voters' health concerns.

Spain's top military commander was forced to resign after he and other high-ranking officers jumped the queue to receive COVID vaccinations, sparking public anger.

Defense Minister Margarita Robles has accepted the resignation of Chief of Staff Gen. Miguel Angel Villarroya.

The general "never intended to take advantage of unjustifiable privileges which damaged the image of the Armed Forces and put in doubt the honor of the general," the Defense Ministry said. It added that Villaroya "took decisions which he thought to be correct" but which "damaged the public image of the Armed Forces."

The general's resignation came after El Confidencial, an online publication, reported that Villarroya and other top brass had violated national protocols for Spain's vaccination strategy.

Norway on Saturday announced its strictest restrictions since last March after a case of the British coronavirus variant was found in a retirement home.

"In some places, we are going even further than in March," Health Minister Bent Hoie told a press conference, adding that it will make "daily life difficult for many."

All indoor and outdoor public events, apart from burials, have been canceled. Restaurants will be limited to takeaway services and only essential shops can remain open. Municipalities will be allowed to close primary schools and switch secondary schools to remote learning.

Sweden plans to introduce a ban on entry from Norway due to the spread of the new UK variant, the country's health authority said Saturday. Earlier in the day, authorities recommended that travelers from Norway self-isolate for at least a week and test for COVID-19 upon arrival.

Americas

Brazil began distributing the 2 million ready-to-use AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines a day after they arrived from India following a major diplomatic effort.

Until now, Brazil's widely criticized vaccine rollout has depended on a shot developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd in partnership with Sao Paulo's Butantan Institute.

The government also has a deal with AstraZeneca to locally produce up to 100 million doses, but the delivery of the active ingredient needed to manufacture them has been plagued by delays from China.

Meanwhile, support for President Jair Bolsonaro has fallen sharply, a Datafolha poll shows, amid a brutal second wave and a lack of vaccines. With more than 216,000 fatalities, Brazil has the world's second-deadliest coronavirus outbreak.

Asia-Pacific

New Zealand reported its first coronavirus case outside a quarantine facility in more than two months.

So far, there was no evidence that the virus was spreading in the community.

The case was a 56-year-old woman who recently returned from Europe, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said on Sunday.

The woman spent 14 days in quarantine and twice tested negative before being returning home on January 13. She later developed symptoms and tested positive.

"We are working on the assumption that this is a positive case and it is a more transmissible variant," Bloomfield said. "We are casting the net wide to ensure we contain any potential community transmission."

adi/nm (KNA, AFP, dpa, Reuters, AP)


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Chinese 'El Chapo'

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Chinese 'El Chapo' arrested in Amsterdam

Tse Chi Lop is the alleged leader of a vast Asian drug syndicate responsible for up to 70% of all narcotics entering Australia, law enforcement say.


Tse Chi Lop is accused of running a crime syndicate known as "The Company"

One of the world's most-wanted fugitives, the 56-year old billionaire Tse Chi Lop, was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, police announced on Saturday.

Often compared to drug lords like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman or Pablo Escobar, investigators accuse Tse's syndicate of dominating the $70 billion (€57 billion) -a-year Asia-Pacific drug trade.

Law enforcement believe it is funneling tons of methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine to at least a dozen countries from Japan to New Zealand. But methamphetamine is its main business, police say.

He was arrested at the request of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) without incident during a stop-over on a flight from Taiwan to Canada.

Drugs hidden in teabags

The cartel is suspected of often concealing its drugs in packets of tea. Police intelligence sources estimate the syndicate is responsible for up to 70% of all narcotics entering Australia.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conservatively estimates the syndicate's methamphetamine revenue in 2018 at $8 billion a year, but says it could be as high as $17.7 billion.

"The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here,” said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2019.

Links to government officials suspected

The syndicate Tse is suspected of running is known to its members as "The Company", though others refer to it as "Sam Gor" — or Brother Number Three in Cantonese — after one of Tse's nicknames, according to investigative reporting by Reuters and the Australian newspaper, The Age.

The publication also reports that suspected members of Tse's crime organization may have high level links to governments across Asia, having invested in large infrastructure ventures under the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road Scheme, a massive economic project that aims to build trade and transport links from East Asia to Europe.

Kickboxing guards

A Chinese-born Canadian national, Tse formerly lived in Toronto, and has moved between Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan in recent years. Often protected by a guard of Thai kickboxers, Tse reputedly once lost $66 million in a single night at a Macau casino, according to police.

Tse is the prime target of Operation Kungur, a counter-narcotics investigation led by the AFP, but involving about 20 agencies from Asia, North America and Europe, all places that have served as markets or supply hubs for Tse's organization. It is by far the biggest ever international effort to combat Asian drug trafficking syndicates, say law enforcement agents involved in the investigation.

mb/aw (Reuters, AFP, AP)

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El Chin-apo.

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Dutch leaders condemn 'criminal' clashes at anti-lockdown protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...kdown-protests

More than 240 people were arrested as police used teargas and water cannon to disperse crowds of several hundred protesters in Amsterdam and Eindhoven on Sunday. Trouble also flared in a dozen other towns across the country.

“It’s unacceptable,” the prime minister, Mark Rutte, said on Monday. “This has nothing to do with protesting. It is criminal violence and that’s how we’ll treat it.” He said the 9pm curfew introduced on Saturday was necessary and would remain in place.

Eindhoven was worst hit by the unrest, with rioters setting fire to cars, smashing windows, throwing rocks and fireworks at police, and looting a supermarket and other shops. The local mayor, John Jorritsma, said his city was “crying, and so am I”.

Jorritsma called the rioters “scum of the earth”, adding that he was “afraid that if we continue down this path we will be on our way to civil war”. When police said the protesters were violating lockdown rules, “they took weapons out of their pockets and immediately attacked the police,” Jorritsma said.

Other officials said the violence was not caused by people concerned primarily about their civil liberties. “These demonstrations are being hijacked by people who only want one thing, and that is to riot,” said the Nijmegen mayor, Hubert Bruls. “This is not demonstrating. These are coronavirus hooligans.”

More than 50 people were arrested in Eindhoven, police said, while in Amsterdam about 190 rioters were detained after police deployed water cannon, dogs and officers on horseback during a banned demonstration on the city’s Museumplein.

Military police were sent as reinforcements to at least two towns. In the eastern city of Enschede, rioters threw rocks at the windows of a hospital, and on Saturday night youths in the fishing village of Urk set fire to a coronavirus test centre.

The police trade union, NPB, said there could be more trouble ahead as people grow increasingly frustrated with the country’s months-long lockdown. “We haven’t seen so much violence in 40 years,” said one union official, Koen Simmers.

Schools and non-essential shops have been closed in the Netherlands since mid-December, and bars and restaurants were closed in October. The curfew was added because of fears over the more contagious British variant of the virus.

People who violate the 9pm to 4.30am curfew face a €95 fine. There are exemptions, in particular for people attending funerals or having to work, but they must present a certificate.

Besides the curfew, Rutte also announced last week a ban on flights from Britain, South Africa and South America, and lowered the number of guests allowed into people’s homes to one, from the previous limit of two.

Đa giới thành oán.

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Hòa (lan) nhi bất ổn:

Đa giới thành oán.

Phải đổi chiến thuật "chích choát" sang kiểu Nam Dương. Nam Dương đi ngược phương Tây cho giới trẻ và người trong tuổi lao động chích ngừa trước. Hoàn toàn chính xác. Giới già và dân thất nghiệp ở nhà thì cho cấm túc và chích sau là hay nhất. Không tù túng thì không nổi loạn. Xứ tự do lại không cấm biểu tình. Nhưng nổi loạn thì lại bị đàn áp. Berlin, Stuttgart năm ngoái có biểu tình và nổi loạn, tuy nhiên chánh quyền chơi màn ra luật cấm luôn biểu tình. Cho nên các đàn anh đàn chị nòi QAnon hết có ô pạc lưa để tuyên truyền hô hào. Chơi vậy thì cũng không được lâu. Chỉ còn cách chích choát cho nhanh.

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Chính phủ Hòa lan có thể tương kế tựu kế, tung ra thuyết âm mưu đồn đại là chính phủ ngấm ngầm xúi dân biểu tình để tụ tập lại một chỗ rồi phát sóng điện 5G tẩy não dân. Hay là kêu gọi biểu tình ở trong rừng, khỏi lo đâp phá.