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Editor’s Note: This listicle is part of a series from The Ball State Daily News that brings together five stories from around the world. All summaries are based on stories published by The Associated Press.
Hong Kong wants to ban flights from Great Britain to contain the variants of the coronavirus, the UN human rights chief said reparations are needed for people affected by racism, a Polish church reports the recent abuse of 368 children by clergy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the idea of a summit between the EU and Putin and the resignation of the Swedish Prime Minister are the five international stories of this week.
Hong Kong bans passenger flights from the UK to contain the virus
Hong Kong wants to ban all passenger flights from the UK from Thursday to curb the spread of new variants of the corona virus. A statement on Monday said the UK was classified as “extremely high risk”. The classification will prevent people staying in the UK for more than two hours from boarding passenger flights to Hong Kong at the time the Hong Kong government banned flights from the UK following a restriction imposed last December. as Hong Kong wants to relax quarantine measures for most other countries including the US and Canada.
UN leader: redress for people affected by racism
In a landmark report published after the assassination of George Floyd in the United States, the UN human rights leader calls on countries around the world to do more to end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent, and “again to make up for “. – also through reparations. The report by Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, offers a comprehensive look at the roots of centuries of abuse that Africans and people of African descent have been exposed to, particularly through the transatlantic slave trade. It seeks a “transformative” approach to addressing its ongoing impact today.
Church of Poland recently reports clergy abuse of 368 children
In its latest report on the sexual abuse of minors, the Catholic Church of Poland says 292 clergymen allegedly molested 368 boys and girls between 2018 and 2020. The report, released on Monday, comes at a time when the Vatican is investigating reports of abuse and lack of response from church leaders in Poland, a predominantly Catholic country where the clergy are particularly respected. The Vatican recently fined some Polish bishops and archbishops for negligence and banned them from church and lay ceremonies. The Holy See is also investigating reports of negligence by the retired Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who previously served as the personal secretary of the late Pope John Paul II.
Germany’s Merkel defends the idea of a summit between the EU and Putin
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday defended the idea of holding a European Union meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that it would provide an opportunity to confront Putin with European concerns. The idea was rejected by the Eastern EU members last week. At a summit on Friday, the heads of state and government of the EU only agreed to “explore the formats and conditions of the dialogue with Russia”. There was no mention of high-level meetings or plans for a summit with Putin, an idea that Germany and France had pushed. The result reflected deep divisions in the attitude of the 27-nation EU towards Moscow.
Sweden’s Prime Minister resigns and calls for a new government to be formed in Parliament
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is stepping down after losing a vote of confidence last week and on Monday called on the country’s parliamentary speaker to try to form a new government instead of holding early elections. Lofven, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party since 2014, was the first Swedish head of state to ever lose a vote of confidence in parliament. He did not call for early elections, as the Swedish constitution allows. The speaker of parliament since 2018, Andreas Norlen, will ask the party leaders who can possibly form a government. He alone decides which of the party leaders can take up these talks.
