In his address to MEPs , Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema thanked Parliament for its support, advocated closer relations with the EU and condemned the war against Ukraine.
Introducing President Hichilema EP President Roberta Metsola said Zambia stands as an example of a mature democracy for the whole of the African continent. Now more than ever, in the current troubled geopolitical context and during Russia’s efforts to increase its influence in Africa, Zambia’s progress needs to be supported . President Metsola also reminded MEPs that back in 2017 Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the incarceration of President Hichilema on politically motivated charges.
“Zambia is back in business, in the Champions league”, President Hichilema said, referring to the results of country’s most recent elections. He reiterated Zambia’s commitment to put people’s interests, reforms, free media, the rule of law, youth and education at the top of his political agenda. He advocated for enhanced Africa- EU cooperation, more trade, and more exchange of knowledge.
“We categorically say no to the war in Ukraine. It is tragic and heart-breaking to witness the thousands of lives lost and millions displaced unnecessarily, as a result of an avoidable conflict in Ukraine”, President Hichilema said, while speaking about peace and security in the world. He added that the impact of the war is felt in his country in the form of higher fuel, food and fertilizers prices, and he urged all parties to focus more on improving the lives of people, not waging war. President Hichilema also offered his help in overcoming food shortages.
President Hichilema also expressed his profound gratitude for the support of the European Parliament for him and for Zambia during his incarceration and the dark days of Zambia’s democratic development. “I remain indebted to you for standing up for human rights and freedom of all people in Zambia”, he said.
You can re-watch the formal address by President Hichilema here.
The authorities of the Mediterranean resort in Spain have warned tourists that it is not safe to urinate in the Mediterranean Sea, because. for such unsanitary actions face a huge fine. The relevant law has already entered into force, Spanish media reported.
The popular resort town of Vigo in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, has banned tourists from urinating not only in the sea, but also on the beaches. The ban is aimed at reducing sanitary risks, especially since during the high season, the city authorities install public toilets on the beaches. For violation, a caught vacationer faces a fine of up to 750 euros.
It’s unclear how local officials will enforce the rules, but tourists could still be caught, officials warned. However, this is not the only rule in force in the region. There are many rules that foreign tourists should be aware of this summer when heading to Spanish beaches. For example:
1. The country plans to fine everyone who leaves garbage behind, as well as those who bring a gas bottle or a barbecue to the beach. Those who are caught violating the rules will be fined 3,000 euros.
2. The use of soap in the sea is currently prohibited and it is no longer permitted to reserve a spot on the beach with a towel.
3. Spain has announced that local authorities will impose fines of up to 42 thousand rubles on anyone who is inappropriately dressed on the street. This includes women dressed only in a bikini or swimsuit, and men without outerwear. First of all, the ban applies to two resort regions – Mallorca and Barcelona.
4. Foreign tourists visiting restaurants in one of Mallorca’s most popular resorts during parties have been warned that they will not be allowed in T-shirts, T-shirts and glow-in-the-dark baseball caps. There is a dress code.
5. Mallorca and Ibiza in the Balearic Islands have announced that Britons will be limited to six drinks a day during an all-inclusive holiday. Drinks are now limited to three at lunch and three at dinner. The Balearic government also banned the sale of alcohol in stores from 21:30 to 8:00.
At one of the most popular resorts in Mallorca (Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean), restaurateurs have said they will no longer let tourists dressed as “drunks”. The owners of restaurants and nightclubs united, introduced a dress code for travelers, stating that in terms of impoliteness, drunkenness and rudeness, this summer season is again lost for the Spanish island.
Business representatives of the Playa de Palma resort area, where primarily British tourists like to relax, claim that the locals are already fed up with the so-called “drunken tourism”, although the season has just begun, Spanish media reported. Now, a group of restaurants at the resort have banded together to introduce a new dress code that all tourists will have to follow or the latter will be denied access.
We list what is forbidden to wear to a restaurant on the Spanish resort islands:
1. Swimwear
2. Any accessories bought from street vendors, such as gold chains or glow-in-the-dark hats.
3. T-shirts without straps
4. Swimming trunks
5. T-shirts
6. Any clothing with slogans promoting “drunken tourism”
So far, 11 restaurants have backed the ban, all affiliated with the Palma Beach brand, but more are likely to follow.
How do you know if a restaurant supports the new dress code? The establishments have posted QR codes at the entrance so that visitors can check the establishment’s requirements for tourists. “The situation on public roads is now worse than in 2017, 2018 and 2019. We already consider the season lost in terms of controlling impoliteness and rudeness. We need government support because no organizations or residents can stop this,” Palma Beach CEO Juanmi Ferrer told the newspapers.
The resort areas are full of street vendors and shops selling weird novelties like parasol hats or illuminated sunglasses. Restaurants that supported the new rules noted that these accessories do not fit into the environment of quality restaurants, which only allow “plain clothing.”
They warned that while there might be some flexibility during the day, there would be no tolerance for appearances at night. Juanmi Ferrer said the goal was not to “prohibit”, but to “re-educate” the tourist with “friendly ways of communicating” so that they understand that their own attitude should change on repeat visits to the restaurant.
Hotel owners told the Spanish newspaper Diario de Mallorca that police had failed to crack down on street parties or “large groups of tourists who only seek to get drunk on public roads or even on the beach.”
Palm Beach manager Pedro Marin said that this contingent usually book a small number of nights in hotels, stay for three or four nights and spend about 30 or 40 euros per day, “usually on alcohol and cans of beer they consume on the street.” According to him, they arrive at the hotels in the morning and are drunk to such an extent that they cannot even walk. Their companions do not try to resist this, but simply leave them lying on the sidewalk until the tourist wakes up and comes to his senses.
The resort authorities are outraged by this behavior in public places and say that the police should be able to impose fines on the spot, as is the case in other civilized countries that value reputation, as the problem manifests itself on the streets of the resort.
In many parts of the world, the ring finger is called the “ring finger” because it is worn on the wedding ring – it is believed that this is its purpose. This finger is so special that in ancient times it was also called “medical”. Some cultures believe it is magical. To this day, it is believed that in some places it hides magic. Look at your hand. If your ring finger is longer than your index finger, you are a man. If your index finger is longer, you are a woman. The ring finger indicates the level of testosterone in the body. The longer he is, the more manly he is. If the nameless and the pointer are equal to you, this is not very good news for your sexuality. Since ancient times, people have noticed the relationship between the size of this finger and certain personality traits. In fact, these qualities were related to the level of testosterone in the body.
Today, there are scientific observations that show that people with a longer ring finger are better at math, decision-making, leadership, but also more aggressive. However, the ancients did not have the explanation we have now that the development of this finger in the embryo coincides with its sexual determination and that is why it is such a clear sign of testosterone levels. That’s why they wore a ring on their magic finger – because it meant status or commitment. So the ring finger is not only the most magical finger, but also much more important from a sexual point of view than the middle finger. There is a special connection between the veins of this finger and the heart, say Asians. Chinese belief is that we wear our wedding ring on one of these two fingers because they symbolize our loved one – our spouse. That the thumbs symbolize our parents, our index fingers our brothers and sisters, our middle finger symbolizes our own selves, and our little fingers symbolize our children. If we touch the tips of the five fingers of one hand with the tips of the corresponding five fingers of the other hand, we will see that in this position we can separate from each other and lift all pairs of fingers except the pair of ring fingers. Why? The beautiful and romantic Chinese explanation is that it means that wife and husband should be together forever, for better or worse.
Total exports of Russian goods to China rose 80% year-on-year in May to $10.27 billion, and this support from Beijing allows Moscow to offset the problems it faces in other export markets.
Last month, China continued to buy up Russian energy resources, including a record amount of crude oil. It amounted to $7.47 billion, about $1 billion more than in April and twice as much as a year ago.
The increase in energy supplies from Russia to China is due to the fact that other buyers continue to avoid Russian oil, gas and coal. This is also facilitated by the gradual recovery in demand for them amid the easing of restrictive measures in the Middle Kingdom, which solved some of the logistical problems and allowed the restart of industrial production.
Total exports of Russian goods to China rose 80% year-on-year in May to $10.27 billion, and this support from Beijing allows Moscow to offset the problems it faces in other export markets.
China’s crude oil imports rose 55% year-over-year to 8.42 million tons in May, with Russia overtaking Saudi Arabia as the top supplier, according to Chinese customs data released today. Supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas to China rose by 54% yoy to 397,000 tons, despite an overall 28% decline in imports of this type of fuel into the country.
This volume does not include imports of pipeline gas from the Russian Federation, data on which have not been published by PRC customs since the beginning of the year. Nevertheless, this is the main way to transport fuel from Russia to China.
Other data on commodity trade between Russia and China in May looks like this:
• total coal imports decreased by 5.2% year on year to 4.73 million tons;
• supplies of coking coal to the steel industry increased for the fourth consecutive month to 1.71 million tons, up 70% year-on-year;
• China has also bought more steelmaking coal from Mongolia after the easing of restrictions eased logistics;
• imports of refined copper increased by 15% to 31,267 tons;
• Refined nickel imports fell nearly 90% to 300 tons, a record low;
He was in town for the Tenth Forum of Social Economy, reports TrafficNews.
The European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nikola Schmidt visited on the 20th of June the Refugee Center in Plovdiv and praised the established base and the provided conditions for accommodation of Ukrainian citizens. He was in the city on the hills for the Tenth Forum of Social Economy Entities, during which he visited the Social Enterprise for People with Disabilities and the Community Center for Children and Families. During the tour he received an invitation from Deputy Mayor Georgi Tityukov to go to the former Lung Hospital, where the center is located. On the spot, they were greeted by Natalia Ellis, a Ukrainian woman who has lived in Plovdiv for years and who is a volunteer and helps her compatriots who sought refuge from the military conflict here.
“Europe supports the people of Ukraine, understands their suffering. “Everyone (local government and the EU) will make an effort to make you feel at home,” said Schmidt, who spoke to Ukrainian refugees housed in the center. The European Commissioner and his team commented that Plovdiv is one of the few cities with similar refugee centers. For her part, Natalia Ellis stressed the great support received by the refugees accommodated in the former medical institution from both the Municipality of Plovdiv and the district administration.
On the spot in the OP “Social Enterprise for People with Disabilities” EU Commissioner Nikola Schmidt saw how people with various problems make unique souvenirs in the three studios – textiles, ceramics and glass blowing, in the Social Enterprise.
At the Community Center he was greeted with a short program – children, users of social services, sang the national anthem and folk songs.
epa08084243 General view of the damage to the Carnival Glory cruise ship after the collision with the Oasis of the seas cruise ship, while performing maneuvers to dock at the Puerta Maya pier on the island of Cozumel, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, 20 December 2019. There were no major injuries. EPA/Heyder Castillo
A huge unfinished commercial will probably be sold for sale, after which the manufacturer declares bankruptcy, because no one wants it. This is a general German report on the recognized An Word industry.
Attempts are being made to sell part of the equipment and engines from Global Dream II, according to An Word. The used contract will be sold for sale.
The German company WWerften, which is a company, is a member of the holding company Genting Nong Kong. Both announcements of incompetence in January. Изpoizvoditelyat na ĸopabi ctpoi ĸopaba za Dream Сruіѕеѕ, една от тpите ĸpyизни lini, coбcтвeноcт нa Gentіng.
Global Dream is located on the dock of MV Werften in Bicmap, Germany, An Word reports. This month, the ship was handed over to a manufacturer of military ships, which plans to build 24 boats, 24 boats.
If no special offers are made for the company in the coming weeks, Global Dream will be submitted to the market, where it will be paid.
It is not yet clear whether Global Dream will be sold.
The work on Global Dream started in March 2018 and it is believed that the debut will be in the beginning of 2021, as one of the biggest pubs. The 340-meter-long ship is designed to accommodate more than 9,000 passengers in 2,500 cabins, as well as 2,200 crew members.
Dreams announced that the cabins will be about 15% larger than those available on other vessels and will include recognition and recognition software. The digger will also include a thematic paper.
Before MV Werften was active in January, she had close to 2,000 employees, according to The Maritime Exercise.
British low-cost airline EаѕуЈеt announced, that will procure 56 airplanes Аіrbuѕ, model “A320 Neo” и and in the same time shall transform another order from 2013 г. for 188 more airplanes “A321 Neo”, Reuters reports.
The aircraft will be delivered from the financial year 2026 to the financial year 2029 and will replace the previous models A319 and A320.
The airline announced that it will pay significantly less than the official price of the aircraft, thanks to the prices agreed in 2013.
In December 2020, the EU signed a deal with Europe to postpone supplies for the pandemic, which triggered a major crackdown. He expects the shareholders to be asked to finance some part of the current deal, according to Izidjet.
A year ago, EasyJet announced that the company’s total revenue had fallen by 90% in the last six months. The total loss of the airline was 701 million British pounds.
The strongest team in the region has put its reputation at risk.
There is a pause in European football now. The leagues are over, the Nations League matches have been played, so all that is left for clubs to attract the attention of fans is talk of transfers and the presentation of new kits. Classic off season.
Holstein Kiel from the second German Bundesliga followed the same path. However, an ordinary announcement in the club’s social networks suddenly turned into an information bomb. The fans saw on the new T-shirts of the “storks” … the Nazi flag.
Management urgently had to make excuses to the fans!
Pride of the region
Holstein Kiel have been playing in the German second division for the last five seasons. The team has not yet been able to break into the elite, although recently it was really close to this. In the 2020/21 season, the “storks” finished in third place, but lost in the “junctions” for a place in the first Bundesliga to “Cologne”. In the last campaign, the club experienced a slight decline (9th place), but does not plan to give up its goal.
Despite modest results, “storks” are considered the pride of their region. In ancient times, Kiel was the strongest club in the entire north of Germany and even regularly took trophies. The team still remains the strongest in Schleswig-Holstein, although in the modern era it has never made it to the first Bundesliga.
In preparation for the next season, the team introduced a new kit. And if in the away version, which is very similar to the colors of Stuttgart from the time of Pavel Pogrebnyak, the fans did not find anything remarkable, then the home kit surprised everyone.
The blue T-shirt on the upper part of the front side is decorated with a tricolor: a dark blue color, followed by a white and red stripe. At first glance, a fairly popular coloring for sports equipment, but the German fans saw something different in it.
Third Reich
On the same day, the social networks of the club instantly flooded with messages like this:
– Do you really think that the Reich flag on a home jersey is appropriate?
The home jersey is definitely not to be worn. Can I somehow add a small warning that it can be confused with a flag?
The audience did not understand everything the way they wanted in the club. The thing is that the image on the home kit of the club from Schleswig-Holstein is very much like the tricolor of the Third Reich. The intimidating flag contained black, white and red colors.
If you do not peer into the Holstein Kiel jersey, then the dark blue shade can really seem black, and in combination with the subsequent two colors, it really resembles the infamous flag.
An accident that can cost a reputation
Some fans still remain on the side of the club and urge their compatriots not to build stupid speculations:
The comments here are German clichés. People are just trying to see something negative everywhere. Even if you intentionally interpret dark blue as black. Anyone who sees the Reich war flag here must get out of their bubble.
There are also extremely positive assessments:
Cool T-shirt – decided by the user @christi79364674.
God, how gorgeous,” wrote @michiksv.
But such subscribers are in the minority. The Germans reacted extremely sharply to this situation, so the club even had to urgently come up with explanations:
“At this stage, we would like to make it clear that we distance ourselves from any form of racism or right-wing ideas. The colors of our T-shirt are blue, white and red: the colors of Schleswig-Holstein. This is also clearly visible in the original, ”the official message on the team’s social network says.
Of course, few can doubt that the club simply wanted to emphasize its belonging to its native region. However, due diligence, unfortunately, the designers and their bosses did not show. So now the team from the north of Germany will have to seriously think about the next steps: if the discussion does not subside, then they will probably have to change their home kit. Otherwise, the reputation of the club may suffer greatly.
Flights of the American cargo ships Cygnus to the ISS may be interrupted for an indefinite period due to the US running out of stocks of Russian RD-181 rocket engines. These engines are used on Antares rockets, which are the regular carriers of Cygnus cargo ships.
According to the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the United States has only four RD-181 engines left, enough for two launches of Antares rockets. What they intend to do next in the United States is unknown; deliveries of Russian rocket engines to the Americans have been stopped as part of retaliatory sanctions. This was announced at the beginning of March this year. In addition to stopping deliveries, Russia also stopped servicing engines already delivered. We are talking about the RD-180 used on the American Atlas-5 and RD-181 missiles used in the first stage of the Antares missiles.
As a result of our retaliatory sanctions, the United States has only 4 RD-181 engines left. They are enough for two Cygnus launches, Rogozin said.
The press service of Roscosmos clarified that the United States has a way out of this situation, they just need to adapt the Cygnus cargo ship to another carrier. After a few years and large financial costs, this issue will be resolved. Another option is to try to negotiate with Russia on the supply of engines.
Earlier it was reported that the United States was unable to correct the height of the ISS orbit using the engines of the Cygnus cargo ship docked to the station. NASA has not yet given a reason. The correction of the ISS orbit, carried out by the US cargo ship Cygnus on Monday, June 20, was interrupted for an unspecified reason. Whether attempts to raise the station will continue is still unknown, the American “truck” should leave the ISS on Thursday, June 23.
An astronomical team has discovered a strange object in the center of the Milky Way, resembling a miniature spiral galaxy orbiting a massive star, ScienceAlert reports, citing a publication in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The discovery was made with the help of the ALMA microwave telescope (ALMA – Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
The star is 26,000 light-years from Earth and is about 32 times more massive than the Sun. It is located in a huge disk of rotating gas, called a “protostar disk”. The disk is about 4,000 astronomical units wide (1 astronomical unit equals the distance between the Earth and the Sun).
Such discs are widespread in the universe. They “feed” the stars by helping young luminaries gain mass.
However, the object observed in the Milky Way is quite unusual. It looks like “a tiny galaxy that orbits dangerously close to the center of our galaxy,” astronomers said.
Observations show that the movement of the disk hardly gave it its natural spiral shape. According to researchers, he rather survived a collision with another space object.
Scientists have made computer simulations and found that this cataclysm probably occurred about 12,000 years ago. The large object has changed the shape of the dust cloud to such an extent that clearly visible spiral “sleeves” have appeared in it.
“Because there are millions of times more stars in the center of the Milky Way than in our part of the galaxy, such events probably occur there quite regularly,” said Lu Xing, co-author of the study at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in China.
