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Зеленський запровадив тимчасовий безвіз для туристів з Китаю
Безвізовий в’їзд в Україну та транзитний проїзд через українську територію для громадян КНР запроваджується з 1 квітня до 30 вересня 2021 року
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By Gromada | 03/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Biden Urges Congress to Tighten Gun Laws
U.S. President Joe Biden is urging Congress to pass tighter gun laws following two mass shootings in Georgia and Colorado. White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has the story.
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By Polityk | 03/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden Presidency Opens Opportunity for War Powers Repeal
U.S. lawmakers are taking a new look at a decades-old law that grants U.S. presidents sweeping powers to wage war overseas. As VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson reports, Congress may attempt to take back some of that power.Produced by: Katherine Gypson
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By Polityk | 03/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US Seen Falling Short Countering China’s Rising Geopolitical Clout
Despite initiatives by the previous and current administrations, there are fresh concerns the United States is falling short to counter China’s rising geopolitical influence. Beijing’s evolving Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), for the past eight years, has financed projects globally, including roads, railways, power plants and telecommunications infrastructure. “U.S. inaction, as much as Chinese assertiveness, is responsible for the economic and strategic predicament in which the United States finds itself. U.S. withdrawal helped create the vacuum that China filled with BRI,” according to a report of an independent task force released Tuesday by the Council on Foreign Relations. “Although the United States long ago identified an interest in promoting infrastructure, trade and connectivity throughout Asia and repeatedly invoked the imagery of the Silk Road, it has not met the inherent needs of the region. Its own lending to and investment in many BRI countries was limited and is now declining,” FILE – Clerks stand at a display of goods at a Belt and Road Products New Year’s Marketplace at a shopping mall in Beijing, Jan. 10, 2020. The market showcases products created from countries and regions involved in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.BRI is “boosting China’s ability to project its power across the region and the world,” said Jack Lew, who previously was a U.S. Treasury secretary and White House chief of staff. “U.S. policymakers need to offer alternatives to BRI where it can and to educate other countries about what it entails and push back when necessary.” China is now perceived to be more powerful than the United States in parts of Africa and Asia because of BRI, said former U.S. Trade Representative General Counsel Jennifer Hillman, one of the other authors of the CFR report. BRI encompasses the land-based Silk Road Economic Belt (with digital, health and “green” subsets), the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Polar Silk Road. “We have to get back in the game,” with the United States joining or rejoining trade agreements it left during the Donald Trump presidency, said Hillman, who was among those speaking Tuesday at an online forum about the CFR report. “China has made investing in infrastructure a high priority. The United States has not,” Lew said during the event. SALPIE InitiativeCurrent U.S. officials say the administration of President Joe Biden is going to change that. “Competition with China is a factor that is encouraging the United States to up its diplomatic game across the board,” a senior administration official told VOA. During the Trump administration, relatively modest initiatives were taken to counter BRI, including the International Development Finance Corporation, the Blue Dot network for infrastructure project certification and a U.S.-Taiwan infrastructure initiative, as well as the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. “There was a lot of rebranding, but there weren’t additional resources given to these initiatives,” Sacks said. The Biden administration this week launched the Small and Less Populous Island Economies (SALPIE) Initiative, announcing it will strengthen U.S. economic collaboration with island countries and territories in the Caribbean, North Atlantic and Pacific regions. “It’s important to strengthen our alliances, particularly among smaller countries that might otherwise come under a certain amount of pressure from China,” a senior administration official told VOA on Tuesday. The White House official announcement of SALPIE notes the importance of “countering predatory investment practices by malign actors.” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese co-hosted Monday a virtual event with envoys from island countries and territories, inviting them to partner with Washington under the SALPIE Initiative, which brings 29 U.S. departments and agencies together to coordinate ongoing and future engagements. The administration, later this week, is convening a meeting involving those 29 entities “to actually make this kind of meaningful and real and operational,” a senior official explained. Another senior U.S. official explained SALPIE “is a different approach than Blue Dot and some of these other initiatives,” promising that “it really does leverage the convening power that we have from here to ensure that we are able to implement in a way that’s effectively addressing the priorities we’ve outlined.” The status of the Trump-era FILE – President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, from the State Dining Room of the White House, March 12, 2021.“Why not use the Quad as a mechanism to promote infrastructure in Asia and establish an infrastructure fund that has billions of dollars behind it to go do this?” Sacks asked. “You know these are the right partners” with the potential to add South Korea and Taiwan. While the Biden administration’s plans to counter BRI may be ambitious and sprawling, there is concern it will not receive sufficient attention due to a lack of centralization and influential leadership. Thus, the idea for an “infrastructure czar” to orchestrate the U.S. response to China’s global investment ambitions. “It’s hard for the State Department or the Department of Commerce to have that convening power,” Sacks said. “Sometimes it’s not helpful to have czars on so many issues, but I do think — given the scale of the challenge and the need for a coordinated interagency response — it might make sense to have in the National Security Council or the National Economic Council an infrastructure czar who reports to the president.” Biden has already appointed so-called czars for climate policy, the border with Mexico and the COVID-19 economic rescue plan. There is also similar discussion about selecting officials to oversee cyberpolicy and for busting monopolies.
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By Polityk | 03/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Верховний суд визнав законним відсторонення від навчання дітей, яким не зробили щеплення
Забороною щодо відвідування нещепленими дітьми навчальних закладів держава реалізує обов’язок забезпечити безпеку життя та здоров’я усіх учасників освітнього процесу – суд
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By Gromada | 03/24/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
ЗНО відбудеться у заплановані терміни незалежно від епідситуації – МОН
Основна сесія зовнішнього незалежного оцінювання відбудеться з 21 травня до 15 червня
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By Gromada | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
З початку року у підземці 6 разів застосовували встановлені там дефібрилятори – метро Києва
Напередодні вперше з допомогою дефібрилятора вдалося врятувати життя 56-річного пасажира
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By Gromada | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Степанов розповів, скільки зафіксовано побічних реакцій на вакцину
За словами Степанова, відсоток побічних реакцій не є критичним
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By Gromada | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Відтепер для в’їзду в Україну потрібна довідка про негативний ПЛР-тест – Степанов
Тестування, кажуть у МОЗ, має бути проведене не пізніше, ніж за 48 годин до перетину кордону
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By Gromada | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Національні музеї отримали торік 250 тисяч гривень компенсації через COVID-19 – Мінкультури
На придбання масок та антибактеріальних засобів було виділено майже 2,4 мільйона гривень у минулому році
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By Gromada | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Senate Confirms Former Union Leader as Next Labor Secretary
The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed former union leader Marty Walsh, a son of Irish immigrants, as the next labor secretary, boosting U.S. President Joe Biden’s efforts to expand workers’ protection and delivering a win for the country’s organized labor movement.Walsh’s confirmation, by a 68-29 margin on Monday evening, is likely to have a major impact on U.S. workplace laws and regulations, including vigorous enforcement of occupational safety and health rules, overtime payments and proper administration of employee benefit plans.Walsh, 53, led Boston’s Building and Construction Trades Council for two years before winning the 2013 race for mayor with strong backing from large labor groups. He has also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Walsh has supported key proposals affecting workers, including a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave and the PRO Act, a proposal to update labor laws and give workers more ability to organize at work that the House of Representatives passed last year.Despite the far-reaching impact on employers and businesses, Walsh’s nomination has not attracted much controversy.During his nomination hearing, Walsh spoke about being collaborative, a trait that has won him support from large business groups.”Throughout my career, I’ve led by listening, collaborating and building partnerships. That’s how, if confirmed, I will lead the Department of Labor,” he said.In a letter to the Senate last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said it supported Walsh’s nomination, noting that he “has a reputation as a consensus builder and has displayed a willingness to work with a wide array of constituencies.”Walsh would be the last of Biden’s Cabinet secretaries to be confirmed by the Senate, though two other Cabinet-level positions remain to be confirmed.
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By Polityk | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US House Holds Hearing on Statehood for Washington, DC
The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee held a hearing Monday on a bill that would make Washington, D.C., the country’s 51st state.The bill — which passed in the House last year but died in the then-Republican-controlled Senate — represents what was once considered a fringe proposition among a handful of advocates to becoming part of the agenda for Democrats in Congress.The District of Columbia was created on an undeveloped tract of land between the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia in 1790 and became known as the Federal City for a brief period afterward. Residents initially were allowed to vote in either Maryland or Virginia.But in 1800, the U.S. Congress moved into the new Capitol, and later passed the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, which stripped D.C. residents of voting rights in all federal elections, including for U.S. president, and gave Congress oversight of the city.Washington currently has more than 700,000 residents — a population greater than the states of Wyoming and Vermont — who do not have a vote in Congress. At Monday’s hearing, D.C. House Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, author of the legislation, said it was designed to correct that situation.As a delegate, Norton can vote in committee but not for the final bill passage.Under her plan, the area that includes the Capitol, the White House and federal office buildings would become the “federal district,” with the remaining portions of the city becoming the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, named partially for former slave, abolitionist and voting rights advocate Frederick Douglass.Republicans in Congress vehemently oppose the bill as a “power grab” by Democrats, as the staunchly Democratic city would mean more seats for their party in Congress.Republicans argued their opposition last week on constitutional grounds, with conservative witnesses arguing that statehood could not be achieved through simple legislation and that a constitutional amendment would be required.If it passes in the House, the measure will have difficulty passing the Senate, where Democrats have only a one-seat majority, and the bill would need eight Republican votes.
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By Polityk | 03/23/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
На Банковій розпочали очистку стін Офісу президента – фоторепортаж
Під час акції на підтримку Стерненка 20 березня протестувальники розмалювали написами частину фасаду будівлі і розбили кілька шибок
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
В Офісі генпрокурора розповіли, скільки обвинувальних актів стосовно правоохоронців скерували до суду
В ОГП зазначили, що за січень-лютий 2021 року ДБР скерувало до суду 174 обвинувальні акти щодо правоохоронців
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
У «Києве, мий» оцінили обсяг і вартість робіт з прибирання будівлі Офісу президента
Ходоловський: 80 тисяч гривень за прибирання 450 квадратних метрів на фасаді і 150-200 квадратних метрів на вулиці
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Суд 22 березня обере запобіжний захід для Владислава Сорда, затриманого на акції під ОП – адвокат
Адвокат зазначив, що з підзахисним він спілкувався лише під час затримання
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
В Україні виявили 7 893 нових випадки COVID-19 – МОЗ
Минулої доби шпиталізували 3 026 людей, одужали – 2 993, померли 157 людей
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Справа Стерненка: затриманому на акції під ОП ветерану повідомили про підозру – адвокат
Влада Сорда звинувачують у хуліганстві з використанням зброї
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By Gromada | 03/22/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Штаб повідомляє про два обстріли бойовиків на фронті, без втрат
Обидва обстріли з гранатометів зафіксовані поблизу Водяного
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By Gromada | 03/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
US Homeland Security Chief: ‘Border is Secure’
U.S. Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that the country’s southwestern border with Mexico is “secure” and “closed,” even as thousands of Central American migrants are pouring into the United States at a rate that is on pace to be the highest in 20 years. The U.S. currently is holding 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children at the border, but Mayorkas said the U.S. was obligated under its laws to care for them, rather than expel them to their home countries as was the policy under former President Donald Trump. Mayorkas said it was “just false” to say that the children were “dealt with humanely” under the Trump administration. “The prior administration dismantled the asylum process,” he told the “Fox News Sunday” show. “We are encouraging families not to send their children” to the border. But if the children cross into the United States, he said they will be cared for over several days, sent to relatives already living in the United States or placed with vetted people willing to take care of them. “This is about vulnerable children,” he said. “We can (process them) in a safe and orderly manner. We will succeed.” Single adults and families arriving at the border are being sent back to Mexico under current U.S. immigration policies. When President Joe Biden took office two months ago, he stopped construction of the border wall Trump championed and embraced what Biden said would be more humane immigration policies. While he has urged people in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to stay home, his policy shifts have led to thousands of people making the dangerous trek north through Mexico to try to reach the U.S. The bigger flow of migrants started last April, nine months before Trump left office, but has grown markedly under Biden. According to government records, about 74,000 people were stopped at the border in December, Trump’s last full month in office, but the total grew to 100,000 in February, Biden’s first full month as president. In the same two months, the number of unaccompanied children reaching the U.S. grew from about 5,000 to more than 9,400, The migration crisis has proven to be a quick political headache for Biden. An administration critic, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a possible 2024 Republican presidential candidate, told Fox News, “It was the Biden administration that ended the ‘remain in Mexico’ policy” of the Trump administration, “The border is wide open,” Cotton said, rebuffing Mayorkas’s contention that it is secure. He said Biden has “dismantled the very effective policies the Trump administration had in place.” Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy led a group of Republican lawmakers to the border to condemn Biden’s policies. “This crisis is created by the presidential policies of this new administration,” McCarthy said. “There’s no other way to claim it than a Biden border crisis.”
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By Polityk | 03/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Senate Filibuster Bumps Against Biden’s Agenda
Democrats in the US Senate are considering a historic rule change in order to get President Joe Biden’s agenda passed. VOA’s Steve Redisch explains the filibuster.
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By Polityk | 03/21/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Від Дніпра до Києва: 63-річний мандрівник-екстремал пішки подолав понад 600 кілометрів
За словами Сергія Гордієнка, одна з цілей нинішнього походу – тримати себе у формі в умовах пандемії
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By Gromada | 03/20/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
Continuity More Likely Than Change in US-China Policy, Experts Say
The US secretary of state and national security adviser wrapped up their first in-person talks with top Chinese officials in Alaska on Friday. Elizabeth Lee reports.
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By Polityk | 03/20/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
US House Backs Measure Condemning Myanmar Coup
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation Friday condemning the military coup in Myanmar, as lawmakers decried increasingly harsh tactics used to suppress demonstrations since the February 1 ouster of the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.The measure passed 398-14, with one lawmaker voting “present.” All of the “no” and “present” votes came from Republicans.The resolution condemned the coup and the detention of Myanmar’s civilian leaders, called for the release of all those detained and for those elected to serve in parliament to resume their duties.The House had passed another Burma-related measure Thursday by voice vote. That bill, which must be passed by the Senate before becoming law, would require President Joe Biden’s administration to provide a report to Congress on events in Myanmar and its response to them.”We must, we must make it clear that the United States is watching and that we support the restoration of democracy,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, the Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urging support for the measures.Security forces killed at least nine opponents of Mynamar’s military junta Friday, as Southeast Asian countries urged an end to the violence and Western ambassadors condemned what they called the army’s “immoral, indefensible” actions.
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By Polityk | 03/20/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Biden to Nominate Former Sen. Nelson as NASA Chief
U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday he plans to nominate former U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to lead the U.S. space agency, NASA.In a statement, the White House says as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a three-term senator from Florida, Nelson, a Democrat, chaired committees on space, science and transportation. They also note he co-authored the landmark 2010 NASA bill which set the current path of private-sector partnership. In the statement, the White House notes Nelson, as a congressman in 1986, even flew on a six-day space shuttle mission. He currently serves on the NASA advisory council.Nelson, if approved by the Senate, would take over the agency as commercial space projects are already shuttling supplies and astronauts to the International Space Station.NASA is also preparing to return astronauts to the moon in the next four years.Nelson’s nomination has already received the endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican.“I cannot think of anyone better to lead NASA than Bill Nelson,” Rubio tweeted on Thursday.
If approved, Nelson would be NASA’s 14th administrator, and would take over from the Trump administration’s appointee, former Oklahoma congressman Jim Bridenstine.
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By Polityk | 03/20/2021 | Повідомлення, Політика
Користувачі по всьому світу повідомили про збої в роботі Instagram, Facebook Messenger і Whatsapp
У Facebook, що володіє Instagram і Whatsapp, підтвердили проблеми з FB-месенджером
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By Gromada | 03/19/2021 | Повідомлення, Суспільство
