International news brief: Proposed gun laws in NY include social media check

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oi-Madhuri Adnal

Washington:
July
02:
New
York’s
legislature
authorized
a
sweeping
overhaul
Friday
of
the
state’s
handgun
licensing
guidelines,
searching for
to
protect
some
limits
on
firearms
after
the
Supreme
Courtroom
dominated
that
most
individuals
have
a
proper
to
carry
a
handgun
for
private
safety.

New
York’s
proposed
gun
legal guidelines
embody
‘character
and
conduct’ social
media
test

New
York
would
require
individuals
making use of
for
a
handgun
license
to
flip
over
a
checklist
of
their
social
media
accounts
so
officers
might
confirm
their
“character
and
conduct” below
a
invoice
being
thought-about
Friday
by
the
state
Legislature.
The
provision
was
half
of
a
proposed
redesign
of
the
state’s
firearms
licensing
legal guidelines
hammered
out
by
lawmakers
after
the
US
Supreme
Courtroom
struck
down
guidelines
severely
limiting
who
might
get
a
allow
to
carry
a
handgun
outdoors
their
residence.

12
US
Congressmen
urge
Biden
to
maintain
India
accountable
in
WTO
for
‘trade-distorting
practices’

A
group
of
US
lawmakers
has
urged
President
Joe
Biden
to
file
a
formal
request
for
consultations
with
India
at
the
World
Commerce
Organisation
(WTO)
over
its
“harmful
trade-distorting
practices”.
The
12
Congressmen,
in
a
letter
to
Biden,
acknowledged
that
present
WTO
guidelines
enable
governments
to
subsidise
up
to
10
per
cent
of
the
worth
of
commodity
manufacturing.
Nevertheless,
the
Indian
authorities
continues
to
subsidise
extra
than
half
of
the
worth
of
manufacturing
for
a number of
commodities,
together with
rice
and
wheat,
they
mentioned.

Monkeypox
circumstances
triple
in
Europe,
WHO
says,
Africa
involved

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The
World
Well being
Group’s
Europe
chief
warned
Friday
that
monkeypox
circumstances
in
the
area
have
tripled
in
the
final
two
weeks
and
urged
nations
to
do
extra
to
guarantee
the
beforehand
uncommon
illness
does
not
turn out to be
entrenched
on
the
continent.

And
African
well being
authorities
mentioned
they
are
treating
the
increasing
monkeypox
outbreak
as
an
emergency,
calling
on
wealthy
nations
to
share
restricted
provides
of
vaccines
to
keep away from
fairness
issues
seen
throughout
the
COVID-19
pandemic.

Robust
earthquake
kills
5
in
southern
Iran

5
individuals
have been
killed
and
44
others
injured
in
a
magnitude
6.3
earthquake
in
southern
Iran
on
Saturday,
state
tv
reported.Rescue
groups
have been
deployed
close to
the
epicenter,
Sayeh
Khosh
village,
which
is
residence
to
round
300
individuals
in
Hormozgan
province,
some
1,000
kilometers
(620
miles)
south
of
the
capital,
Tehran,
the
report
mentioned.

Searching for
parole
Pistorius
meets
with
girlfriend’s
father

South
African
former
observe
star
Oscar
Pistorius
has
met
with
the
father
of
Reeva
Steenkamp,
the
girl
he
shot
to
demise
in
2013,
as
half
of
his
parole
course of,
the
Steenkamp’s
household
lawyer
advised
The
Related
Press
on
Friday.
Lawyer
Tania
Koen
mentioned
in
a
textual content
message
that
Pistorius
and
Barry
Steenkamp
met
face-to-face
on
June
22
as
half
of
what’s
recognized
in
South
Africa
as
a
victim-offender
dialogue.
It
provides
victims
of
crimes
or
their
family members
a
probability
to
meet
with
the
offenders,
if
they
select
to,
earlier than
the
offender
can
be
eligible
for
parole.