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Romanian PM fined $600 for not following social distancing rules
Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has been fined $600 for smoking indoors and not following social distancing rules.
He held a meeting in a government building with several cabinet members and other participants who did not maintain a distance between them, according to Al Jazeera.
He was accused of breaking his own government’s coronavirus restrictions after a picture emerged of him smoking and drinking inside his office with several cabinet members.
In the smartphone photo, Orban is pictured smoking a cigarette surrounded by four cabinet members, none of whom are wearing masks or practising social distancing.
Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu is seen holding a cigar, while masks lay on a table alongside bottles of alcohol.
Eugen Teodorovici, a senator of the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD), was one of the first to post the picture on social media.
“This is happening inside the PM’s office. This is what liberals do while governing. Shame on you,” he wrote on Facebook Friday.
Orban said the picture was taken on May 25 — his 57th birthday.
“Some colleagues came by to surprise me. I gave them something to eat, a glass of wine, whisky. We weren’t wearing masks because we just finished eating,” Orban told the Mediafax news agency.
Romania has reported more than 19,000 coronavirus cases and 1,253 deaths.
After two months of lockdown, Romania relaxed restrictions on May 15, when masks became mandatory in public transport and other enclosed public spaces.
All bars, pubs and restaurants are closed, with outdoor terraces due to reopen under strict conditions from June 1.
Former prime minister Dacian Ciolos, now leader of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, said Orban should apologise.
“We’re in the middle of a public health crisis and every wrong step undermines the trust in authorities in a moment when it’s most needed,” Ciolos wrote on Facebook.
While some expressed outrage that government officials weren’t respecting the rules, others turned the photo into memes.
“Romania’s government, the only restaurant open during the pandemic,” one meme read.
Orban said he was willing to pay the fine for smoking indoors, which Romania banned in 2016.
“I’m a smoker, I made a human error and I admit it,” he said.
With additional reporting by AFP
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Today’s outlook: Pakistan debates lockdown, Airbus experts return to France
Here are some of the stories we are expecting to follow today (Monday):
- Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair a National Coordination Committee meeting in Islamabad to decide whether the coronavirus lockdown will be relaxed or intensified. Senior government officials and military leadership will attend the meeting.
- A team of the Sindh Building Control Authority will visit the site where PIA flight PK-8303 crashed in Karachi’s Model Colony. An 11-member team of Airbus experts will return to France today to complete the investigation into the incident. Two Pakistani investigators will accompany them. They are taking with them the voice recorder and data boxes for analysis.
- Offices of the federal government’s educational institutions will reopen from today.
- The Karachi Transport Ittehad has announced that it will be resuming public transportation.
- Two doctors died of the coronavirus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, according to Health Minister Taimur Jhagra.
- Two officials at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi were being expelled for “indulging in espionage activities”, India’s foreign ministry said late Sunday
- ICYMI: The government reduced on Sunday prices of petroleum products by as much as Rs11.88 per litre. Click here to read the full story.
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Saudi Arabia to reopen over 90,000 mosques after two months
More than 90,000 mosques across Saudi Arabia, except for those in Makkah, will start reopening from dawn on Sunday (May 31) after a two-month closure to curb the COVID-19 spread.
According to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, the sanitisation, cleaning and maintenance process of the mosques has been completed.
The resumption of services mosques will be carried out in line with the coronavirus precautionary instructions and mandatory guidelines issued by the ministry.
The instructions include doing ablution at home, proper hand washing and using sanitiser before going to the mosque and after coming back home. Elders and those with chronic diseases are advised to perform their prayers at home. Reading and reciting the Holy Quran is advised to be online.
Worshipers are instructed to bring their own prayer mats and maintain a distance of two metres from each other. Wearing face masks and avoidance of handshaking at mosques gates are also recommended.
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NASA astronauts head for ISS on historic SpaceX flight
Two veteran NASA astronauts were headed for the International Space Station on Saturday after Elon Musk’s SpaceX became the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit, ushering in a new era in space travel.
SpaceX’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard blasted off flawlessly in a cloud of bright orange flames and smoke from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center for a 19-hour voyage to the space station.
“Let’s light this candle,” Hurley, the mission commander, told SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California, before liftoff at 3:22 pm (1922 GMT) from NASA’s storied Launch Pad 39A.
The SpaceX launch is the first of American astronauts from US soil since the space shuttle program ended in 2011 and the first crewed flight ever by a private company.
“I’m really quite overcome with emotion,” Musk said. “It’s been 18 years working towards this goal.
“This is hopefully the first step on a journey towards civilization on Mars,” the SpaceX founder said.
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it was a “great day” for NASA and SpaceX and an “important milestone for the nation.”
“We’re not celebrating yet,” Bridenstine cautioned. “We will celebrate when they’re home safely.”
In a brief interview from space, Hurley said that in keeping with the tradition of having astronauts name their spacecraft, he and Behnken had named the Crew Dragon capsule “Endeavour” after the retired space shuttle on which they both flew.
Behnken said the SpaceX capsule is a “lot different than its namesake” in that “it has touch display screens.”
The mission, dubbed “Demo-2,” ends a government monopoly on space flight and is the final test flight before NASA certifies SpaceX’s capsule for regular crewed missions.
Behnken, 49, and Hurley, 53, former military test pilots who joined NASA in 2000, are scheduled to dock with the space station at 10:29 am (1429 GMT) on Sunday.
They will join US astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner aboard the ISS.
SpaceX said Crew Dragon was on the correct trajectory to link up with the space station orbiting 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth.
The reusable first booster stage of the Falcon 9 rocket separated cleanly about 2.5 minutes after liftoff and landed upright on a floating barge off the Atlantic coast. The second stage also separated smoothly.
The launch had originally been scheduled for Wednesday but was delayed because of weather conditions, which also remained uncertain on Saturday right up until liftoff.
The mission comes amid the coronavirus crisis and protests in multiple US cities over the death of a black man in Minneapolis while he was being arrested by a white police officer.
President Donald Trump flew to Florida to watch the launch and delivered remarks to NASA and SpaceX employees on what he called a “special day.”
Trump first addressed the protests, saying he understood “the pain people are feeling” but that he would not tolerate “mob violence.”
Trump praised Musk and said the launch “makes clear the commercial space industry is the future.”
He also repeated his vow to send American astronauts back to the Moon in 2024 and eventually to Mars.
Behnken and Hurley blasted off from Launch Pad 39A, the same one used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11’s 1969 journey to the Moon.
The pair, veterans of two space shuttle missions each, were in quarantine for more than two weeks ahead of the flight and were regularly tested for COVID-19.
They went through the same preparations Saturday that they went through on Wednesday, donning their futuristic SpaceX-designed spacesuits four hours before launch.
After saying goodbye to their wives — both former astronauts — they were driven to the launch pad in an electric car built by Tesla, one of Musk’s other companies.
The Crew Dragon mission is a defining moment for SpaceX, which Musk founded in 2002 with the goal of producing a lower-cost alternative to human spaceflight.
The US space agency paid more than $3 billion for SpaceX to design, build, test and operate its reusable Dragon capsule for six future space round trips.
NASA has had to pay Russia for its Soyuz rockets to take US astronauts to space ever since the shuttle program ended.
SpaceX conducted a successful test flight of Crew Dragon to the ISS in March 2019 with a sensor-laden mannequin on board named Ripley, after the character played by Sigourney Weaver in the “Alien” movies.
The project has experienced delays, explosions, and parachute problems — but even so, SpaceX has beaten its giant competitor Boeing to the punch.
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Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem reopens after two months
Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound — the third-holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia — reopened on Sunday after being closed for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
An AFP journalist said worshippers in protective masks were allowed to enter the compound in the early hours, ahead of the first prayers of the day.
Singing “God is greatest, we will protect Al-Aqsa with our soul and blood”, the group was welcomed by the mosque’s director Omar al-Kiswani, who thanked them for their patience.
The compound, located in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, closed its doors in March as part of measures to limit the spread of the deadly new disease. It houses the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, both of which were opened Sunday.
Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven at the site, which has often been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It is also holy to Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount and believe it to be the location of two biblical temples — the second of which was destroyed in 70 AD.
On the first day of the Eid holiday, scuffles had broken out between Israeli police and Palestinians as worshippers tried to break through barriers to enter the compound.
Known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, the site is under the custodianship of neighbouring Jordan, which controlled the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, up until occupation by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967.
With the number of COVID-19 cases declining, in recent days both Israel and the Palestinian territories have eased restrictions.
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Six killed, 52 injured in two bus accidents in Punjab
Six people were killed and 52 people injured in two bus accidents in Punjab early Sunday.
The first took place in Kabirwala’s Pul Rangu where a passenger bus overturned while trying to avoid a motorcyclist.
Six people died on the spot and 25 were injured. The rescue operation is currently under way and there are fears that the death toll will rise.
The bus was travelling from Lahore to Multan.
The second accident took place in Okara’s Dipalpur near Aminabad. A speeding bus hit a tractor, injuring 27 people. Five people are in critical condition.
Everyone has been shifted to the THQ Hospital Dipalpur.
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Today’s outlook: International flights resume, flour prices hiked by Rs5/kg
Here are some of the news stories we are expecting to follow today (Saturday):
- Flour prices have been hiked by Rs5 per kilogramme. A 20kg bag of wheat in Lahore is being sold at Rs925.
- Pakistan has shot down another Indian spy quadcopter near the Line of Control in Azad Kashmir.
- Both national and international airlines have been allowed to operate international flights from all major airports, except Gwadar and Turbat.
- Around 80% of PIA flight PK-8303’s debris has been lifted from the crash site. The Airbus experts are in Karachi to help investigate the crash.
- The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority has recommended reducing the petroleum products’ prices by Rs12 per litre.
- A Punjab Assembly session has been summoned at Lahore’s Faletti’s Hotel instead of the assembly.
- NAB has called PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif and the Election Commission of Pakistan has summoned Ahsan Iqbal on June 2.
- The Sindh Education Board has announced that no student will be failed this year nor positions assigned. The students who failed in their ninth and 11th grade examinations will be promoted to the next class.
- Transporters of Karachi have summoned a meeting today. They have been demanding the Sindh government resume public transport services.
- ICYMI: Pakistan reported on Friday the highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day with 57 fatalities. Click here to read the full story.
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Pakistan reports record 57 coronavirus deaths in one day
Pakistan reported on Friday 57 coronavirus deaths across the country. This is the highest number of deaths reported in the country so far.
Of these fatalities, 31 people were from Sindh.
Sindh also sent home 1,563 people on Friday who had recovered from the virus. Pakistan’s coronavirus tally has crossed the 63,000-mark.
Also infected are Minister of State Shehryar Afridi and AlKhidmat Foundation Sindh head Dr Tabassum Jafri.
The prime minister’s aide on health, Dr Zafar Mirza, says a record 157 people are on ventilators across the country.
He repeated his calls for people to take precautionary measures and avoid leaving their homes. The number of cases and fatalities is going to rise, he warned.
He said 2,636 cases had been reported in the past 24 hours.
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