Phi

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Ôi quá nhiều dầu sao quá nhiều:

Rotting Red Sea oil tanker could leave 8m people without water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-without-water

Negotiations are under way to offload the estimated 1.1m barrels of crude oil that remains onboard the FSO Safer, which has been deteriorating by the month since it was abandoned in 2017. The vessel contains four times the amount of oil released by the Exxon Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska in 1989, and a spill is considered increasingly probable.

The oil will spread well beyond Yemen and cause environmental havoc affecting Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and Djibouti, according to the latest modelling, which is unlike previous studies because it examines the impact more than a week after the spill.

Although half of the oil is anticipated to evaporate on the sea within 24 hours, the rest will within six to 10 days reach Yemen’s western coastline, and ports further south in three weeks.

The numbers in need of food assistance vary from 5.7 million to 8.4 million people, depending on whether the spill reaches ports in the south, such as Aden. The estimates depend on the season when the the spill occurs and the extent of the oil loss.

The spill will threaten 66.5%-85.2% of Yemen’s Red Sea fisheries within one week, and 93.5%-100% of those fisheries within three weeks, depending on the season.

Một con tàu đau, cả địa cầu bỏ cá.

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Ái dà mệt rồi:

Egypt detains artist robot Ai-Da
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...c-pyramid-show

Named after the computing pioneer Ada Lovelace, Ai-Da was built by a team of programmers, roboticists, art experts and psychologists. The multimillion-pound project was completed in 2019 and is updated as AI technology improves.

She has been described as “a vision of the future” who is every bit as good as other abstract artists today, but Ai-Da – the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist – hit a temporary snag before her latest exhibition when Egyptian security forces detained her at customs.

Ai-Da is due to open and present her work at the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday, the first time contemporary art has been allowed next to the pyramid in thousands of years.

But because of “security issues” that may include concerns that she is part of a wider espionage plot, both Ai-Da and her sculpture were held in Egyptian customs for 10 days before being released on Wednesday, sparking a diplomatic fracas.

According to Meller, border guards detained Ai-Da at first because she had a modem, and then because she had cameras in her eyes (which she uses to draw and paint). “I can ditch the modems, but I can’t really gouge her eyes out,” he said.

Ai Dà sáng chế tinh thông
Phen này người máy biên phòng gặp nhau.
(Biên trường tân thanh)

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Khi lìa trần có mấy người ưa:

FW de Klerk issues posthumous apology for pain of apartheid
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...a-dies-aged-85

“I, without qualification, apologise for the pain and the hurt and the indignity and the damage that apartheid has done to black, brown and Indians in South Africa,” a gaunt De Klerk said in the recording.

After becoming president in 1989, he allowed anti-apartheid protests, removed restrictions on some banned political parties and – like his predecessor – met secretly with Mandela.

The turning point came on 2 February 1990, five months after his election, when in a speech to parliament De Klerk announced that Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), would be released from jail, where he had been for 27 years. The announcement electrified a country that for decades had been scorned and placed under sanctions by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination.

“If we had not changed in the manner we did,” De Klerk said in an interview with the Observer 11 years ago, “South Africa would be completely isolated. The majority of people in the world would be intent on overthrowing the government. Our economy would be nonexistent – we would not be exporting a single case of wine and South African planes would not be allowed to land anywhere. Internally, we would have the equivalent of civil war.”

The former opposition Democratic Alliance party leader Tony Leon tweeted: “Farewell FW de Klerk. Like Mikhail Gorbachev, he reformed the system he inherited in 1990. And if he had not relinquished power in 1994, likely SA would be Syria or Venezuela today.”

Apartheid năm mươi năm cũ
Nam Phi theo dân chủ từ đây...
(Chính phủ ngâm)

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Badmobile: đập gương sau tìm bóng…

Citroën pulls Egypt ad accused of promoting harassment of women
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sment-of-women

In the ad posted on Egyptian social media in early December, the 60-year-old pop star uses a camera installed in the car’s rearview mirror to secretly take a picture of a woman crossing in front of the vehicle.

The advert was criticised on social media in Egypt where 90% of women aged between 18 and 39 report having been harassed in 2019, according to a survey by the Arab Barometer research network.

“Taking a picture of a woman without her consent is creepy,” a women’s rights activist, Reel Abdellatif, tweeted. “You’re enabling sexual harassment.”

Another critic, Ahmed Tawfiikk, questioned how the company could have thought the advert had been a good idea. “How did this ever get approved in the first place?” he wrote beneath the post on Instagram.

Bóng hồng nhác thấy trước xa
Xuân lan thu cúc mặn mà cả hai
(Đoạn trường tân xa)

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Được ăn được nói được gói đem đi:

Uganda’s rudest poet finding a new voice in Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...ice-in-germany

Nyanzi, a 47-year-old outspoken scholar, poet and human rights advocate whose irreverent writing about Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has seen her jailed twice, decided enough was enough. She has been accepted on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, and has no intention of returning to Uganda while the 77-year-old Museveni is in power. And while there are many concerns about how she and her children are going to settle into Munich life, the sense of freedom is powering her on.

​“Because I’m very much a free-thinking, loud-mouthed, crass woman who boldly speaks her mind, I think one of the greatest joys is to be able to criticise Museveni’s dictatorship and not fear for my life,” she says.

“To not have thick-voiced men breathing down my telephone. And to be threatened online, but to know that the threats won’t reach me, is really relieving. I know it’s going to be difficult [with regards to] the practicalities. But, Jesus, the sense of freedom! The freedom from fear of retribution and reprisal and punishment, simply because one refuses to only praise the dictatorship, is to die for.

“I can suffer the winter and the cold and the hard language – and the food is a bit different. But it’s freedom. You know: I am free at least. My children don’t have to fear that they’ll have more nights with mama in prison or locked up in a police cell simply because I wrote a Facebook post or I wrote too harshly about a dictator who is begging to be written harshly about. So that’s freedom from fear, much more than freedom to do. Freedom to be is, like, immediate relief.”

Đàn bà dễ có mấy tay
Đời xưa mấy mặt đời này mấy gan?
(Đoạn trường tân thanh)

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Đồng khô hồ cạn cuốc liềm nằm trơ:

Ethiopia faces catastrophic hunger as cattle perish in severe drought
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...severe-drought

In a country already grappling with humanitarian strife brought on by civil war, aid workers and local officials say that another crisis is slowly unfolding, as severe drought plagues much of southern and north-eastern Ethiopia.

By mid-March, it is estimated that more than 6.8 million people in the affected regions are expected to be in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. According to Unicef, almost 850,000 children in those areas will be severely malnourished this year due to a combination of drought, conflict and economic downturn.

Xứ càng đói càng nghèo thì con nít càng nhiều và càng khổ. Trời sinh voi, trời không sinh cỏ.

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No country for young men:

Death of Moroccan boy in well draws sympathy from around world
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...m-around-world

News of Rayan’s death following a massive, four-day rescue operation, pitched Morocco into deep grief and prompted condolences from around the globe.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said: “I want to say to the family of little Rayan and to the Moroccan people that we share your pain.”

Pope Francis said he had been moved by the solidarity and kindness shown during the rescue effort.

Rayan fell down a well 32 metres (100ft) deep in his home village of Ighrane on Tuesday afternoon. As the shaft was just 45cm (18in) across – and widening it considered too risky – rescuers instead used large diggers to carve a slope in the hope of reaching the boy from the side.

In the final stages, with teams estimated to be just 3 metres away from Rayan, authorities decided to dig by hand to avoid a landslide of the rocky, sandy earth.

There's one more kid that'll never go to school
Never get to fall in love
Never get to be cool
(Neil Young)

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Bất chiến tự nhiên buồn:

Tigray conflict engulfs neighbouring state
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...hbouring-state

The war’s tremors were first felt in northern Afar in late December, when volleys of gunfire and artillery shells flew across the border with Tigray, the rebel region fighting the central Ethiopian government. Both sides accused the other of firing first. But in January, troops led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) mounted fully fledged incursions into multiple Afar districts. TPLF forces now occupy five of them.

This latest episode is not the first to draw Afar, one of Ethiopia’s poorest regions, into the conflict, which at first seemed distant. What began as a war centred on Tigray – in which the occupying federal army and its allies, in particular troops from Eritrea, committed alleged war crimes – morphed last summer to include Tigray’s neighbours, Afar and Amhara.

In Afar, young men and women are angry at the bloodshed and say they want to take up arms. Usman Humo, whose children were killed last month, says all he needs is a gun. “Before this they [the TPLF] were our brothers,” he says. “Now I want revenge.”

Nothing comes from violence
And nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
​(Sting)

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Hotel Rwanda:

UK asylum seekers to be housed in no-frills hostel in Rwandan capital
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...wandan-capital

People fleeing war and persecution will be taken to a guest house, built in 2014, which only has 50 rooms available, although there are plans to expand the facility.

However, given Britain’s growing asylum backlog, a hostel that can only accommodate 100 people – if there are two people to a room and guests share communal bathrooms – falls well short of what is required as part of the Home Office’s immigration strategy.

There are just 12 toilets and five showers for about 100 people and small 12ft by 12ft (3.6 x 3.6-metre) bedrooms, with two beds in each.

The Tory peer Lady Warsi wrote on Twitter on Thursday that they were “ineffective and costly”, adding: “It’s also inhumane and shames our proud history as advocates of human rights and the refugee convention. It’s inconsistent with our generous response to the Ukrainian crisis. Its timing is cynical and political.”

Mai mốt cũng chở người xin tỵ nạn từ Á châu sang Việt nam, người xin tỵ nạn từ Ukraine sang Nga hay Belarusia.

Ru oan đà đi nhé
Cho ta nương nhờ lúc vượt biên…

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Hotel Rwanda:

UK asylum seekers to be housed in no-frills hostel in Rwandan capital
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...wandan-capital



Mai mốt cũng chở người xin tỵ nạn từ Á châu sang Việt nam, người xin tỵ nạn từ Ukraine sang Nga hay Belarusia.

Ru oan đà đi nhé
Cho ta nương nhờ lúc vượt biên…

Boris dường như không được thông minh. Chiêu này Úc làm rồi, rốt cuộc số tiền chi cao gấp 10 lần, và con số người tị nạn đến hàng năm dường như không có thuyên giảm.

Có thể chơi chiêu anh hùng cứu U-nhân như Tây. Ai làm anh hùng cho quyền cư trú vô thời hạn hoặc nhập tịch luôn. Thay vì gửi 1 chiếc xe tăng đời Bảo Đại 1,5 triệu một chiếc cho dân Ukraine. Hỏi ai tình nguyện đi lính đánh thuê bên Ukraine thì huấn luyện cấp tốc, trang bị vũ khí tối tân rồi gởi sang Ukraine. Những người sống sót trở về sau cuộc chiến cũng xứng đáng ở lại Anh rồi còn gì.