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North Korea Fires Unidentified Projectile: South Korea's Military

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The projectile was fired into the sea east of the peninsula. (Representational)
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Seoul:
North Korea fired an unidentified projectile into the sea, South Korea's military said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of tests by the capital Pyongyang over recent weeks.
The projectile was fired into the sea east of the peninsula, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement, without immediately giving further details.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has in recent weeks tested a long-range cruise missile, a train-launched weapon and what it said was a hypersonic warhead.
Leader Kim Jong Un -- who has overseen rapid progress in its military technology, at the cost of international sanctions -- last week blamed the United States for tensions, dismissing Washington's assertions that it does not have hostile intentions.
The latest launch came as a US envoy made a new appeal for talks with Pyongyang.
"We will seek diplomacy with the DPRK to make tangible progress that increases the security of the United States and our allies," said Sung Kim, the US special representative on North Korea, following talks with his South Korean counterpart in Washington.
Kim met three times with former US President Donald Trump, who boasted of stopping a war but failed to reach a comprehensive agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear programme.
US President Joe Biden has promised to keep pursuing diplomacy in the quest for denuclearisation.
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Belarus-Born Inmate Who Leaked Russia Prison Rape Video Seeks French Asylum

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Belarus born Savelyev fled after his release from prison in February. (Representational)
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Paris:
The former inmate behind a video leak showing alleged rape and torture inside a Russian prison said he could no longer keep the explosive revelations to himself, speaking to AFP from France where he is now seeking asylum.
Belarus-born whistleblower Sergei Savelyev "was authorised to enter French territory to file his asylum application within eight days", his lawyer, Aude Rimailho, told AFP on Monday evening.
Savelyev fled after his release from prison in February, fearing kidnapping or even death.
He smuggled shocking footage out of a jail in the central city of Saratov showing abuse in several jails, including one allegedly showing a male prisoner screaming while being raped with a broomstick.
Other clips showed prisoners urinating on other inmates, as well as graphic images of rape.
Some of the harrowing videos -- he smuggled more than 1,000 in all -- have been published by a Russian rights group, prompting an official probe and the sacking of several officials.
Torture and sexual violence inflicted on inmates have long been systemic in Russia's vast penitentiary system, prison monitors say, but the videos have cast new light on such abuses.
Speaking exclusively to AFP, Savelyev said he had no choice but to speak up.
"Psychologically, it's very difficult to keep things like this to yourself. What else can you do once you know?" the 31-year-old told AFP on Sunday at Charles de Gaulle airport.
Convicted for drug trafficking, Savelyev served 7.5 years in jail.
He got a job as an IT maintenance officer, granting him access to the prison's internal server and those of other jails, where he found several videos.
He saved them on USB sticks that he hid near the prison exit.
On the day of his release -- after a thorough search -- he grabbed the memory sticks on his way out, unseen by guards as a group of prisoners left.
"The idea had been bubbling away within me for ages," he told AFP of the plan.
But it was a nerve-wracking ordeal.
"To begin with, (officers) checked up on me, then the surveillance was gradually ramped down to the point it disappeared," said Savelyev, speaking in Russian.
Routine abuse
Savelyev said he was stunned by the violence he witnessed in jail.
Often the abuse was doled out by fellow inmates, eager to please officers in the jail.
It is usually to try to force inmates to confess or snitch on other prisoners.
In some cases the abuse is filmed so the victim can then be blackmailed into cooperating with his handlers.
Or it is used to blackmail inmates -- if word of the assault becomes widely known, the victim slides down the rankings of the prison pecking order, reduced to a "petukh", or rooster, a derogatory term in Russia.
Savelyev said he suffered abuse at a prison in Krasnodar to force him to "cooperate" -- beaten "around once a week but not so hard as to leave too visible bruising".
He insists he never engaged in violence towards other inmates.
The guards found other ways of pressuring him too.
"My father travelled 1,000 kilometres (625 miles) to bring me some sausage. He tried (to get in) one day, then the next," he said.
"He slept for three nights in his car and they didn't let him in."
Fear of reprisals
After the video was published online by Gulagu.net, a rights group dedicated to exposing abuses in Russian jails, Russia's Federal Prison Service (FSIN) announced a probe into the incident.
The head of the jail, where prisoners needing medical attention for tuberculosis are held, was sacked, along with three regional prison officials. And the top prison official for the Saratov region was also to be relieved of his post over "serious mistakes", authorities said.
Savelyev was released early for good behaviour, helped in part by his work as an IT expert.
He went back to Belarus, then to Turkey and to Tunis, before landing in Paris late on Friday where he applied for asylum.
He still has many other videos he collected in jail, but he refused to say what he plans to do with them.
He says he now fears reprisals from the FSIN and the Russian security service, the FSB.
After the videos were released he was in contact with security agents who offered him a shorter four-year sentence for "divulging a state secret" in exchange for his cooperation, instead of 10 to 20 years for espionage, he says.
He went along with the plan at first, as he plotted his exit.
"They weren't interested in knowing anything about human rights violations," he adds.
He escaped the country in a minibus over the Russia-Belarus border to Minsk -- an easier route to go undetected compared to flying.
Given the close cooperation between the security forces of the neighbouring states, he didn't want to stay long. He swiftly moved on to Istanbul, then Tunis, where he didn't need a visa to enter.
He then booked a return ticket back to Minsk but with a stop-off in Paris.
Now he's hoping he can stay, fearing for the worst if he goes back to Minsk.
His lawyer Rimailho says there are "serious fears" he could be subject to forced disappearance or even execution.
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Pfizer Seeks Approval For Covid Jabs For Children Aged 5-11 In Canada

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Pfizer-BioNTech submitted an authorization request to Canada for use of vaccine for children.
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Montreal:
Pfizer-BioNTech submitted an authorization request to Health Canada on Monday for the use of its Covid-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11, the companies and the Canadian government said.
"This is the first submission Health Canada has received for the use of a Covid-19 vaccine in this younger age group," it said in a statement.
The authorization request is based on data from trials conducted on 2,268 children in this age group for whom the dosage was lowered to 10 micrograms per injection -- three times less than the standard dose -- which the company says is "the preferred dose" for 5-11 year olds.
This same Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is approved in Canada for ages 12 and up.
Health Canada said that it will only authorize the use of the vaccine if the independent and thorough scientific review of all data submitted confirms that the benefits outweigh the risks with this group.
The Canadian ministry also indicated that other manufacturers also were testing their vaccines on children of different age groups.
Earlier this month, Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories made the same request for 5-11 year olds in the United States.
Childhood immunizations are raising questions around the world. Many countries vaccinate adolescents from the age of 12, but very few do so below that age.
In recent months, the World Health Organization (WHO) has insisted that the urgent issue was to immunize the population of poor countries before children and adolescents in rich countries.
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"Unprecedented" Crackdown On Free Speech During Covid Pandemic: Amnesty

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Journalists and health professionals have been silenced and imprisoned amid pandemic, Amnesty noted.
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London:
Oppressive regimes around the world have used the coronavirus pandemic to crack down on critics, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
The rights monitor said there have been "unprecedented" curbs on freedom of expression since last year, and lives may even have been lost due to a lack of proper information.
"Communication channels have been targeted, social media has been censored, and media outlets have been closed down," said Rajat Khosla, Amnesty's senior director for research advocacy and policy.
"In the midst of a pandemic, journalists and health professionals have been silenced and imprisoned.
"As a result, people have been unable to access information about Covid-19, including how to protect themselves and their communities.
"Approximately five million people have lost their lives to Covid-19, and lack of information will have likely been a contributory factor."
Amnesty said that by February 2020 in China, where the virus first emerged just months before, 5,511 criminal investigations had been opened into individuals for "fabricating and deliberately disseminating false and harmful information" about the nature and extent of the outbreak.
Tanzania's government under former president John Magufuli used laws prohibiting and criminalising "false news" and other measures to restrict media coverage.
Magufuli, who shunned facemasks, died suddenly in March this year but had denied the virus was circulating in the country, maintaining it had been driven out by prayer.
The Nicaraguan authorities used emergency legislation against cybercrimes to punish anyone critical of the government's response to the virus, Amnesty said.
President Daniel Ortega's government has rejected claims of a shortage of hospital beds and surging numbers of cases and deaths.
In Russia, the introduction of anti-"fake news" laws and criminal penalties in relation to Covid-19 were likely to stay in force once the pandemic is over, Amnesty warned.
The London-based group said such measures were part of an "onslaught on human rights" across the world in recent years, and called for them to be lifted immediately.
It also took aim at the role of social media platforms for not doing enough to stop the spread of false and misleading information about the virus.
That made it "increasingly difficult for individuals to have a fully informed opinion and make educated choices about their health", the group said in a new report, "Silenced and Misinformed: Freedom of Expression in Danger During Covid-19".
"States and social media companies must also ensure the public has unfettered access to accurate, evidence-based and timely information," said Khosla.
"This is a crucial step to minimise vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation."
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US Says "Intermediate Step" Of Brussels Meeting Not Necessary For Iran Talks

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United States does not think talks in Brussels are necessary, spokesperson Ned Price said.
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Brussels:
The United States does not think talks in Brussels are necessary before the resumption of indirect negotiations with Iran on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal in Vienna, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Monday.
A senior EU official said last week Iran was not ready yet to return to actual talks with world powers over reviving its 2015 nuclear program and related U.S. sanctions but could discuss with the EU in Brussels texts from when negotiations ended in June.
After initially suggesting optimism that preparatory talks in the Belgian capital could take place soon, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell played down the possibility on Monday and dismissed Iranian reports of discussions planned for Thursday this week.
"To be clear, we do not think it is necessary," Price told reporters at a news briefing when asked about the possibility of a meeting in Brussels.
"The destination we seek is in Vienna, not an intermediate step in Brussels," he said, adding the United States its allies and partners involved in the Iran deal agreed that the indirect talks in Vienna "should resume as soon as possible."
Earlier on Monday, Iranian hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran backs talks with six major powers that are result-oriented.
"We are serious about result-oriented negotiations...If Americans are serious, they should remove unjust sanctions on Iran," Raisi told state TV.
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Uber Driver Worries About Face Mask During Chicago Shootout

A judge in New York City has blocked a father’s right to see his three-year-old daughter unless he agrees to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Yes, really.
In early September, Evan Schein, an attorney acting on behalf of the mother in the couple’s divorce case (the family has not been named), raised concerns about the father’s vaccination status, leading high profile judge Judge Matthew Cooper to suspend his visitation rights until he received the jab.
According to Cooper, the father needs to submit to the shot because it has become a prerequisite “to participate meaningfully in everyday society.”
“The dangers of voluntarily remaining unvaccinated during access with a child while the COVID-19 virus remains a threat to children’s health and safety cannot be understated,” said the judge.
“Unfortunately, and to my mind, incomprehensibly, a sizable minority, seizing upon misinformation, conspiracy theories, and muddled notions of ‘individual liberty,’ have refused all entreaties to be vaccinated,” he added.
The father’s only other option is to pay for expensive PCR tests every week in addition to taking a biweekly antigen test within 24 hours of his every other weekend visits.
The ruling was praised by the mother’s attorney, who called it “an incredibly important one that highlights the extraordinary times we are living in and reinforces that a child’s best interests are paramount.”
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New York City judge STOPS Long Island father from visiting his three-year-old daughter in Manhattan unless he gets the shot or has weekly COVID-19 tests  
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However, Lloyd Rosen, the father’s attorney, warned that the ruling sets a terrible precedent.
“My client is not a conspiracy theorist,” Rosen said. “He has concerns about the vaccine. He’s heard about side effects. He once had a bad reaction to a flu vaccine.”
“This judge must feel that 80 million Americans who aren’t vaccinated are placing their children at imminent risk or harm and, therefore, the courts should intervene and remove those children from their parents,” he added. “This is an absurd position to take.”
The father has previously been infected with COVID-19, meaning he has antibodies that offer him far greater protection than the vaccine, but that isn’t even being taken into account.
As we previously <a href="https://summit.news/2021/10/12/two-more-hospitals-demand-mandatory-vaccination-before-allowing-organ-transplants/">highlighted</a>, patients who are in urgent need of life-saving organ transplants are now being denied treatment due to their refusal to take the vaccine.
As we warned all along, the agenda behind mandatory vaccination schemes is to make life a living hell for refusniks who don’t comply, while maintaining all along that the vaccine isn’t “mandatory.”
We are now hurtling full throttle towards a Chinese-style social credit score system where basic functions of living are denied to those who choose to exercise their bodily autonomy.
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A judge in New York City has blocked a father’s right to see his three-year-old daughter unless he agrees to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Yes...