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Charlottesville, Virginia, will no longer celebrate Thomas Jefferson's birthday as an official city holiday and instead will observe a day recognizing the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans.
The city council voted Monday night to scrap the decades-old April 13 holiday honoring the slave-holding president and Founding Father. Charlottesville will now mark Liberation and Freedom Day on March 3, the day U.S. Army forces arrived in the city in 1865.
The future of Mr Corbyn, 70, was openly discussed at an event attended by mandarins this month amid suggestions that he has become "too frail and is losing his memory".Sounds like hot air to further discredit and undermine Corbyn... nothing new here.
They say they are increasingly worried about the prospect of him becoming prime minister because he is being "propped up" by his advisers and lacks a firm grasp of both foreign affairs and the domestic agenda.
One senior civil servant said: "When does someone say [he] is too ill to carry on as leader of the Labour Party let alone...
Putin met Thursday with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who had returned from the Navy's Arctic base of Severomorsk, and asked him about the submersible's nuclear reactor. Shoigu said the reactor is "completely isolated now" and it is "in full working order."The blaze has been identified as starting in the sub's battery compartment and spreading from there, causing 14 crewmen to succumb to smoke inhalation, while an undisclosed number survived. Norwegian officials had also previously reported that they have discovered no unusual levels of radiation near the accident.
The nuclear reactor on the submersible has been fully isolated," Sergey Shoigi told President Vladimir Putin.See also:
The vessel's crew also "conducted all necessary measures to protect the reactor. It's fully functional. So we hope the repair of the submersible can be done quickly."
The main cause of the tragedy was a fire which broke out in the sub's battery compartment and "managed to somewhat spread." Battery malfunction was earlier viewed as the likely cause of the deadly blaze by Russian defense experts.
The president and the minister also discussed compensation for the families of the 14 officers who died in the fire.
"We are working with each family individually," Shoigu said, adding that "all necessary help will be provided."
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