New Zealand took tentative steps Saturday towards reopening its borders for the first time in the Covid era, but only with the tiny Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
The government announcement made no mention of any plans for a broader expansion to take in Australia, which introduced a one-way travel bubble in October allowing quarantine-free travel from New Zealand to Australia but not vice-versa.
New Zealand has been widely praised for its strict handling of the coronavirus which has caused just 25 deaths in a population of five million.
In a brief statement, the government said planning was now under way for quarantine-free travel with the Cook Islands to begin in the first quarter of next year.
"It will allow people to travel more easily between our two countries, while acknowledging that the priority remains to protect our populations from Covid-19," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
It has been more than three weeks since the last case of community transmission in New Zealand, and the Cook Islands are Covid free.
Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown said the free movement of people between New Zealand and his country "is central to our close relationship" and integral to the Cook Islands' recovery from the coronavirus.
The Cook Islands is self-governing in "free association" with New Zealand, meaning that while it administers its own affairs, Cook Islanders are both New Zealand citizens and Cook Islands nationals.
As the dust still rises on football's night of racist accusations in Paris, the battelines are being drawn in Romania, home of the fourth official whose use of the word "negru" prompted a player walk-off during Basaksehir's Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain.
While some believe that Sebastian Coltescu and the comments he made were the product of linguistic misunderstanding, others feel that it is simply emblematic of a society riddled with racism and homophobia.
site-https://k12.instructure.com/courses/200988/pages/watch-audrey-2020-online-full-version-%7C%7Chd
This is what happened. In the 14th minute of Tuesday's game, a touchline argument broke out over accusations that Coltescu had described Basaksehir's Cameroonian assistant coach Pierre Webo as "negru", the Romanian for "black".
ADVERTISING
"It's the black over there," he said.
That has become the key line of the debate, the one that led to Basaksehir's Senegalese forward Demba Ba remonstrating with the official in English.
"When you mention a white guy, you never say 'this white guy', you just say 'this guy', so why when you mention a black guy do you say 'this black guy?'" he can clearly be heard saying.
The players walked off, returning the next day with a different set of officials to finish the match, since when sportsmen, sociologists and linguists from Romania have been analysing every word from every aspect with every nuance.
In Bucharest, many voices are calling for patience until governing body UEFA releases its findings.
On social networks, however, there is broad criticism of the European football authorities and suggestions of double-standards for not having reacted when Romanian sportsmen have been referred to as "Gypsies" -- a pejorative term designating the Roma.
But the President of the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) Razvan Burleanu is firm.
"These words have no place in a stadium," he said.
Ditto for Sports Minister Ionut Stroe, who quickly presented his "apologies in the name of Romanian sport".
In the local media, however, opinions are divided.
"In Romanian, to say that someone is black ('negru') is not an offense, but a reference to the colour of their skin, a simple precision," said veteran sports journalist Ovidiu Ioanitoaia.
His younger colleague Theodor Jumatate, however, takes a different view.
"It is the most brutal expression of racism, the very essence of humiliation," he says.
President of the anti-discrimination Council (CNCD), Csaba Asztalos, stressed that "sport, and football in particular, cannot be immune to this very present scourge of Romanian society".
site-https://vodrosadru.medium.com/new-zealand-took-tentative-steps-saturday-towards-reopening-its-borders-for-the-first-time-in-the-b9eb0156e428
https://vodrosadru.medium.com/maimed-in-a-horrific-bombing-colombian-athlete-juan-jose-florian-emerged-from-south-americas-217de91a3c72
https://vodrosadru.medium.com/mcavoys-road-to-redemption-from-prison-cell-to-ironman-1ea1a209ec18
https://www.guest-articles.com/others/new-zealand-moves-to-reopen-border-but-only-with-cook-islands-12-12-2020
https://www.guest-articles.com/classes/ex-colombian-rebel-heading-for-paralympics-in-tokyo-12-12-2020
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/fdde3dde6ea87eedb9ba244d65cd5a6038efe8ee3fef29271d914bb4c0056e8b
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/9a0c263c6cb7b40a6bb41b9762c00acfb3b38ba6fc1600ba76e6327b0b55e122
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/604b3e61bb9703c8824012c95286eab87365ee30e3d07d174e678a48741628f8
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/fb853242e22e1191535a304a5c33e59a243b04e51fecdf127153be3380267503
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/a7c9aeb0669444517dbe9a2f3b216174ed2706bf234184770bc05ff9420db90a
Asztalos is getting used to these matters with other incidents of supporters imitating monkey cries or throwing a banana in the direction of a Brazilian player.
In an interview with AFP, he denounced the "laxity" of the clubs and of the Romanian professional football league (LPF).
In neighboring Bulgaria, similar incidents punctuated a qualifying match for Euro 2020 against England in October 2019.
The subsequent fall-out led to Bulgaria coach Krasimir Balakov resigning along with the country's FA chief, Borislav Mihaylov.
Several Bulgarian clubs, as well as the national team, had previously been sanctioned by UEFA for "racist behaviour" in the stands.
In 2014, Levski Sofia supporters openly defied a campaign by the European body by deploying a banner proclaiming "Say 'Yes' to Racism".
In the Balkans too, monkey noises and racist chants have repeatedly earned the Croatian, Serbian and Montenegrin federations fines and closed-door matches for the respective national teams.
If the Croatian federation regularly condemns such behaviour, sometimes accompanied by Nazi chants, it also throws the blame entirely on "hooligans".
In 2012, Belgrade was the scene of a mass brawl at the end of an U21 Euro qualifier between Serbia and England.
Serbian fans, who had been monkey chanting England's Danny Rose, invaded the pitch while players and management of the two teams exchanged insults and blows.
- Roma targeted -
In Romania, analysts say the main targets of hate speech are the Roma.
Gelu Duminica, a sociologist from the Roma minority, bridles when supporters chant "Death to the Gypsies" or brandish placards paying tribute to the pro-Nazi Marshal Ion Antonescu, who had advocated the "Final Solution" (extermination) for the Roma during the Second World War.
According to Duminica, the sanctions that have been imposed by UEFA -- largely fines and playing games behind closed doors -- have partially achieved their goal, as supporters "are starting to fear being penalised".
"But coercion alone does not solve the problem as long as it is not coupled with, or rather preceded by, education on the matter," he told AFP.
Bulgaria, like other countries in the region, has tightened sanctions against hooligans, now liable to fines of up to 2,500 euros and 25 days in detention.
site-https://paiza.io/projects/Q3gQznZc0optDv7HZVCAyw?language=php
http://www.charlie-kosei.com/bbs.php
https://pastelink.net/2d79r
https://paste.ee/p/jOoyv
https://pasteio.com/xnhdRmkRRP4a
https://ideone.com/Ce59Ev
https://www.wsearch1.com/link/91408/watchfull
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/admin/entry/complete?eid=dfa7d5943673eca56f60d50933248ccc&edit=new&sc=
http://www.albaragnos.com/tennistavolo/stampa/?inl=0&lin=696
https://note.com/efraind47/n/n0655b402ee7f
https://www.peeranswer.com/question/5fd43023cf93da3b7b4130cf
http://engisland.com/KB20/homepage/community/inc_content_Re.asp?cate=B006&idx=234601&page=1&search=&searchstring=&noread=y&StrSQLACAMCODE=KB20&viewmode=A&Navi=
https://caribbeanfever.com/photo/66-2-1?context=user
http://zacriley.ning.com/photo/66-2?context=user
http://network-marketing.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dsfsdffds
http://webhitlist.com/forum/topics/fdfgdffg
Asztalos says that Romania, for its part, has "made efforts" to combat racism "but there is still a long way to go".