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Rome: The chamber of deputi-es in Italy’s parliament, the are-na where lawmakers berateeach other, betray alliances andsometimes brawl, is not whereItalians usually go to find affec-tion for their fellow citizens.That changed at least for a mo-ment on Thursday, with an unu-sual proposal put forward by alawmaker: Flavio Di Muro, amember of the League party, as-ked his girlfriend to marry him.

As he took a microphone toaddress the chamber, Di Muro

spoke about the busy lifestyle ledby many lawmakers, and the pu-nishing toll it took on their perso-nal lives. Behind him, Massimili-ano Panizzut, another Leaguelawmaker, was so absorbed in hisphone that he barely raised an ey-ebrow during the speech.

“We neglect the true values,we neglect the people who carefor us, we neglect those we love,”Di Muro said, before asking theassembly for respect, because“today is a special day for me.”Then he ducked under his deskfor a few seconds, emerging

the Five Star Movement, usingthe Italian term for congress-man. He chided Di Muro forusing lawmakers’ time for perso-nal matters ahead of an impor-tant order of business: a vote onmeasures to assist central Italianregions struck by earthquakesin 2016.

But Stefania Pezzopane, amember of the Democratic Par-ty and the sponsor of the earth-quake bill, asked for the floor tocongratulate the couple. “Whenit’s love, love unites,” he said, toapplause. NYT

with an open jewellery box con-taining a ring, which he raisedtoward his girlfriend, Elisa DeLeo, in the spectator’s galleryabove. “Elisa, would you marryme?” he asked, blushing.

League lawmakers at his si-des leapt to their feet, applaudingand hugging Di Muro. “You’regreat, you’re great,” colleaguescalled out. (Panizzut, still seated,eventually put down his phone toclap.)

“Deputato Di Muro,” inter-vened Roberto Fico, the speakerof the chamber and a member of

Love conquers all in Italy’s parliament, at least for a day

‘ELISA, WOULD YOU MARRYME?’ Lawmaker Flavio Di Muropopped the question to hisgirlfriend sitting in the spectator’sgallery in parliament

Paris: People don’t celebra-te Thanksgiving in France,Russia or South Africa —but they do shop on BlackFriday. The US sales pheno-menon has spread to retai-lers across the world in re-cent years with such forcethat it’s prompting a back-lash from some activists, po-liticians and even consu-mers.

Workers at Amazon inGermany went on strike forbetter pay on one of the busi-est days of the year. Near Pa-ris, climate demonstratorsblocked one of the retail gi-ant’s warehouses to protestover-production they say iskilling the planet. Some Fr-ench lawmakers want to banBlack Friday altogether. Ama-zon France said it respectedthe rights of people to expresstheir opinions but that did notextend to organising “violentdemonstrations”.

Globalised commerce hasbrought US consumer tastesto shoppers around theworld, from Halloween candyto breakfast cereal and pea-

nut butter, sometimes evensupplanting local traditions.“The planet burns, oceansdie, and we still want to con-sume, consume, and therefo-re produce, produce — untilwe eradicate all living things?... We will not betray ourchildren for a 30% discount!”reads a manifesto by groupsholding “Block Friday” pro-tests around Paris.

Russia’s consumer watch-dog issued a long statementwith tips on how to avoid get-ting fooled, like checkingwhether prices were raised

before Friday or whether deli-very costs are inflated.Broad-casters in South Africa sho-wed people waiting in line toshop in one of the world’smost socially and economi-cally unequal nations.

“Like no other day, thisFriday shows how brokenthe world we have built is,” itsaid.

The Black Friday adverti-sing push has extended be-yond the one day, with retai-lers in several countries spre-ading them across what’s of-ten called “Black Week”. AP

From Black Friday to ‘Block Friday’:Protests take over shopping frenzy

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Washington: US PresidentDonald Trump announced th-at Washington is re-engagingTaliban in talks after a secreti-ve 36-hour trip to Afghanistanwhere he spent only three andhalf hours on the ground.The visit was Trump’s first tothe country that has mired theUSin the longest war in its his-tory, going into its 19th year.

“Just returned to the Uni-ted States after spending aGREAT Thanksgiving withour Courageous AmericanWarriors in Afghanistan!” hetweeted a few hours after hereturned to his home in Flori-da after the surprise trip.

Trump met briefly withAfghan President Ashraf Gha-ni and a lot longer with US tro-ops at a military base, servingthem a Thanksgiving meal andthanking them for their servi-ce. “There is nowhere that I’d

rather celebrate this Thanks-giving than right here with thetoughest, strongest best andbravest warriors on the face ofthe Earth,” he told soldiers atBagram Air Field.

Thebig takeaway from thepolitical-diplomatic sortie,which included a decoy planeand a stopover at an airbasein Germany for an aircraftand crew change to save time,was the confirmation that US

is once again engaging Tali-ban after Trump abruptlycanned talks — and scrappedtheir visit to Camp David —in September citing a brutalterrorist attack in Kabul.

But although such attackscontinue — one of them re-sulting the death of Indian-American UNDP worker AnilRaj last Sunday — the US pre-sident has given a green lightfor resumption, suggesting it

kesman Zabiullah Mujahid sa-id the Taliban’s stance is un-changed. He said the US brokeoff talks and when it wants toresume the Taliban are ready.The insurgent spokesman, ho-wever, told AFP in a WhatsAppmessage that “it is way too ear-ly to talk about the resumptionof talks for now”, and addedthat the group would give anofficial reaction later.

This was Trump’s first vi-sit to Afghanistan (he went toIraq last Thanksgiving) andthe White House went to greatlengths to keep the visit a se-cret even as the media was dis-tracted by the president’s twe-et showing his face superimpo-sed on a muscular Rocky likefigure. His confidantes, inclu-ding his son, gloated abouthow the media misreported(or was misled) that he wasspending the Thanksgivingweekend playing golf in Flori-da while he was hard at workbringing peace to the world.

is Taliban that now wants aceasefire and a deal.

“TheTaliban wants to ma-ke a deal and we’re meetingwith them and we’re saying ithas to be a ceasefire and theydidn’t want to do a ceasefire,and now they do want to do aceasefire,” Trump said. “I be-lieve it’ll probably work outthat way... We are winninglike we haven’t won in a long ti-me,” he told US troops assem-bled in an aircraft hangar atBagram Air Base, while at thesame time explaining that suc-cess would not be achieved onthe battlefield but rather thro-ugh a political solution deter-mined by people in the region.

Compounding the confu-sion, a pool reporter quotedhim as saying after talks withGhani, “The Taliban wants tomake a deal — we’ll see ifthey make a deal. If they dothey do, and if they don’t theydon’t. That’s fine.”

Meanwhile, Taliban spo-

In A Surprise Visit To Af, Trump Says He Has Reopened Talks That He Ended 3 Months Back

US-Taliban peace talk back on track?

London: A 51-year-old man found guilty of killing his Indian-origin ex-wife while she was pregnant by firing a crossbow at herhas been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum termof 33 years before parole in London on Friday. Ramanodge Un-mathallegadoo, originally from Mauritius, planned the attackon his 35-year-old ex-wife Devi aka Sana Muhammad who waseight months pregnant in November last year. Handing downthe sentence at the Old Bailey court, the judge described the inci-dent as “brutal and evil attack”. PTI

Man who killed PIO ex-wife witha crossbow gets 33 years’ jail

Reuters

US President Donald Trump served turkey and thanked the troops at theBagram Air Field. He also met President Ashraf Ghani before flying back

AP

London:British police on Fri-day shot dead a man who hadstrapped a fake bomb to his bo-dy and stabbed a number of pe-ople in what they said was aterrorism incident in the Lon-don Bridge area of the capital.Police said they had been aler-ted at just before 2 pm (local ti-me) to a stabbing at a premisesnear London Bridge, the sceneof a deadly attack by Islamistmilitants two years ago.

“A male suspect was shot byspecialist armed officers fromthe City of London police and Ican confirm that this suspect di-ed at the scene,” the UK’s top co-unter-terrorism officer, Neil Ba-su, told reporters. “A number ofother people received injuriesduring this incident,” Basu said.“We believe a device that was str-apped to the body of the suspectwas a hoax explosive device.”

A video posted on Twittershowed a group of about half adozen men wrestling with some-one on the ground on the side-walk of the bridge. One of thembacks away from the scene carry-ing a knife. As he looks towardsthe melee, an armed police offi-cer drags another person awayfrom the man on the floor. Soonafter, what sound like two guns-hots ring out, and the man on theground stops moving. Reuterscouldn’t immediately verify thefootage.

London mayor Sadiq Khanpraised Londoners “breath-ta-king heroism” in disarming theattacker. “What’s remarkable

about the images we’ve seen isthe breath-taking heroism ofmembers of the public who lite-rally ran towards danger notknowing what confrontedthem,” Khan told reporters.

The ambulance service de-clared a “major incident” andLondon Bridge station, a busycommuter hub, was closed. Peo-ple in buildings around the sce-ne were evacuated to the northside of the River Thames by se-curity services.

PM Boris Johnson, in a sta-tement said, “I’m being keptupdated on the incident at Lon-

don Bridge and want to thankthe police and all emergencyservices for their immediateresponse.”

London Bridge was the sc-ene of an attack in June 2017when three militants drove avan into pedestrians and then at-tacked people in the surroun-ding area, killing 8 people and in-juring at least 48. Islamic Statesaid its fighters were responsib-le. Earlier this month, UK had lo-wered its national terrorismthreat level to “substantial”from “severe”, its lowest levelsince 2014. AGENCIES

Cops kill man on LondonBridge in ‘terrorist incident’ Several People Stabbed; Suspect Appeared ToHave Been Wearing ‘A Hoax Explosive Device’

A police officer moves a bystander away from the crime site in London

AP

Paris: The French govern-ment is to summon the Tur-kish ambassador to Paris toseek an explanation over whyhis president describedFrench President EmmanuelMacron as “brain dead”.

Ahead of a Nato summitnext week that both men willattend, tensions have moun-ted around Turkey’s militaryoperation in Syria, and its ro-le within the trans-Atlanticdefence alliance, which is al-so a member of the fight aga-inst so-called Islamic State.

Macron, complaining of aUS leadership vacuum, re-cently lamented the “braindeath” of Nato and said theallies need “a wake-up call”.And on Thursday, he reitera-ted criticism of Turkey’s ope-ration in northeast Syria aga-inst Kurdish fighters who we-re crucial in the internatio-nal fight against ISextremists.

“I respect the security in-terests of our Turkish ally ...but one can’t say that we areallies and demand solidari-ty, and on the other hand,present allies with a fait ac-compli by a military inter-vention which jeopardisesthe action of the coalition

against IS,” Macron said at ameeting with the Nato chief,Jens Stoltenberg.

The comments angeredTurkey’s leadership, and pro-mpted President Recep Tayy-ip Erdogan to shoot back onFriday: “You should get ch-ecked whether you’re braindead.” “Kicking Turkey out ofNato or not, how is that up toyou? Do you have the authori-ty to make such a decision?”Erdogan asked, characterisi-ng Macron as “inexperien-ced.”

Turkey also criticised Ma-cron for agreeing to talks witha Syrian Kurd politicianwhom Ankara considers anextremist. A French presiden-tial official said the Turkishenvoy will be summoned tothe foreign ministry to expla-in Erdogan’s “insults”. It wasnot immediately clear whenhe would be summoned. AP

You should get checkedif you’re brain dead:Erdogan to Macron

A change to the visa andimmigration policy forms akey part of the ruling Conser-vative Party’s manifesto,with a proposed system basedon points for English lan-guage as well as other skillswhich it claims would end“preferential treatment” of

migrants from within the EU.“(With points-based immi-

gration system) we will be ab-le to attract the best and thebrightest and bring down ov-erall numbers,” said Priti Pa-tel, home secretary and the se-nior-most Indian-origin min-ister in Johnson’s cabinet. PTI

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London: British PM BorisJohnson on Friday promisedto have a post-Brexit Austra-lian-style points-based visapolicy in place by January 1,2021, which would block entryto unskilled people and cutimmigration figures.

On election campaigntrail in Lon-don, Johnsoncalled for peo-ple to vote for amajority Con-servative Par-

ty government on December12 to get Brexit done by theJanuary 31, 2020 deadlineand put all related changesin motion thereafter.

The party has pegged itspost-Brexit skills-based visaplans as one that would beequally applied to nationals ofall countries, including India,after the current EuropeanUnion freedom of movementrules come to an end.

“We’ll take steps to ensurethat the Australian-stylepoints-based immigrationsystem is in place by January1, 2021. By lowering the num-ber of unskilled immigrantswho have been able to comehere with no job lined up, thesystem will remove a majorforce that puts a downwardpressure on wages,” he said.

A melting ice sculpture stands in formissing PM at TV debate on climate

Five leaders of British political parties called for dra-matic action to confront climate change in a televiseddebate on Thursday. And yet, a melting ice sculpture

stole the show. The sculpture stood in for PM Boris John-son. Anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy said that the meltingice was a “reminder that ice caps are melting as politiciansaround the globe fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions intime to stop rising temperatures”. The ice sculpture infu-riated Conservatives, some of whom accused the host net-work, Channel 4, of partisan bias. Conservatives threat-ened to review Channel 4’s broadcasting licence after theelection. NYT & AGENCIES

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