TIRANA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Albanian ministry of agriculture will start
the second phase of vaccinations for lumpy skin disease across the country on
Friday, agriculture minister Edmond Panariti said Thursday.
About 50,000 free vaccines have been assured by the ministry to help in the
prevention of the disease, the minister told a press conference.
In line with the vaccination campaign, the ministry will also launch a
process of registration and identification of the cattle.
Panariti said that some 900 cattle had died across Albania since the disease
broke out months ago. However, he assured Albanian farmers would be compensated.
The ministry has asked the government to approve additional funding to
compensate farmers and replace them with selected cattle breeds, he explained.
According to the minister, the compensation process will start once the
spread of the contagious disease is fully under control. Enditem
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Thursday arrested the two suspects who were questioned over alleged hacking of
the website of the Istana, or the presidential palace, the police said.
The police said in a statement that the two Singaporeans
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the day in connection with a report lodged on Nov. 8 by the web administrator of
the Istana website.
Local media said the suspects are believed to be businessman Delson Moo and
student Melvin Teo and that they were believed to have got to know each other
over Facebook.
The Straits Times said that Moo admitted that he had committed the offense in
a moment of folly.
"It was purely a stupid mistake," he was quoted as saying. "My hand was itchy
and... I got myself into trouble."
The police said that they will be charged in court on Friday.
If found guilty
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Apparent members of international hackers collective Anonymous uploaded a
video message in early November threatening to attack the Internet
infrastructure of the Singapore government
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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that Singapore authorities will
"spare no effort" to track down culprits who launch cyber-attacks even though
they think they can hide behind the internet's veil of anonymity.
Following the warning, the hackers attempted to bring down the websites of
Istana and the Prime Minister's Office on Nov. 8.
Separately, a 35-year-old Singaporean man was charged earlier this month with
hacking the website of a local town council.
BRUSSELS
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(GDP) in the 19-nation Eurozone expanded by 0.6 percent quarter on quarter
between January and March, up from the previous estimate of 0.5 percent and
marking the highest rate since 2015, according to the bloc's statistics office
Eurostat on Thursday.
The revised readings also showed the single currency zone see a yearly GDP
growth of 1.9 percent. In the wider 28-country European Union (EU)
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quarter and 2.1 percent on a yearly basis, said the Eurostat in a statement.
The Eurozone economy grew in first quarter at a faster pace than previously
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With activity surveys pointing to a pick-up in GDP growth in second quarter,
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Thursday's readings came before a scheduled meeting of the European Central
Bank, which was expected to nudge up GDP forecasts but keep the interest rates
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PYONGYANG, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea
(DPRK) on Monday threatened to cut off one of its official contact channels with
the United States, the first of its countermeasures against new sanctions
imposed on the country's senior officials.
The DPRK on Sunday sent a message to the United States denouncing recent U.S.
sanctions against Pyongyang, which "impaired the dignity of the supreme
leadership" of the country, the state-run news agency KCNA reported.
Currently, the DPRK Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York acts
as one of the few communication channels between Pyongyang and Washington, which
the DPRK is threatening to close down.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on DPRK top
leader Kim Jong Un and other senior officials over alleged human rights abuses.
It also slapped sanctions on 10 other individuals and five entities for their
ties to the DPRK's alleged abuse.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the United States to withdraw the
newly announced sanctions, saying they were an "open declaration of war against
the DPRK."
The ministry also warned that the DPRK will eventually cut off all channels
of diplomatic contact with the United States if the latter fails to withdraw the
sanctions.
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