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AT LEAST 13 people suffocated in a crush during a raid on a nightclub in Peru’s capital where a party was being held despite a coronavirus ban on such gatherings, police have said.
Latin America has been badly hit by the pandemic, and this month Peru reimposed stricter restrictions on movement.
The illegal birthday party yesterday was organised on social media and drew a crowd of around 120 at the Thomas Restobar, the interior ministry said in a statement confirming the 13 deaths.
“Faced with the police operation, which did not use any type of weapon or tear gas, those attending the party tried to escape through the single exit, trampling each other and getting trapped in the stairway,” the ministry said.
However, some who were at the party and others living near the nightclub in Lima’s Los Olivos district disputed the ministry’s version of events.
“It appears that police entered and threw tear gas canisters at them, and boxed them in,” one local resident told RPP radio.
Six people, including three police officers, were injured, the interior ministry said.
Local media reported that the victims were in their 20s.
Women’s Minister Rosario Sasieta said she was outraged.
“It should never have happened. We are in a pandemic, in a health emergency. I am calling for the maximum punishment possible for the nightclub owners,” she told RPP.
The interior ministry said 23 people had been detained and that authorities are trying to identify the organisers and the owners of the premises.
Peru, with a population of 33 million, has recorded more than half a million coronavirus cases and over 27,000 fatalities.
This month the country re-imposed a curfew on Sundays in response to the rising number of infections.
A nighttime curfew has been in place since 16 March while the borders are closed and school classes have been suspended for the rest of the year.
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Its all about getting people hooked into one of the most intrusive operating systems that ever came out of Microsoft and it certainly ties in with TTIP and the recently passed CISA Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
There is no such thing as a free lunch and more so from Bill Gates.
Microsoft are really pushing this. Annoying pop ups throughout the day offering free ‘upgrade’.
Anyone I’ve spoken to about Windows 10 tell me ‘don’t get it – it’s crap’.
Makes me suspicious when something is promoted to such an extent.
Time will tell.
I have it and I find it completely fine. there are some privacy steps that are easily applied and after that I’m completely comfortable with it.
Not crap but far from perfect yet. Using it daily for work and is mainly fine. Some extremely basic issues such as sees an SD card, asks if you want to import photos, say yes and it asks from where as Photos can’t see it. You can still copy and paste them but it’s very strange. HyperV services need restarting every morning after a clean reboot. These are minor and I am sure will get resolved soon enough.
Microsoft needs to get people off old versions as otherwise advertising all manner of security enhancements and features is pointless when all versions are lumped under the same title of Windows and they get slagged every time someone finds some issue in XP etc
Tommy , you can turn off the reminder pop-ups by uninstalling update # KB3035583.
My son upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 on the laptop (admittedly about 3 years old) and managed to delete the roll back option too. It was so slow I gave up and wiped it and put Linux on. Much faster and seemingly more stable too.
Well i love Windows 10, I’ve used all versions, if you are unhappy with he data they take here are a few solutions. http://bgr.com/2015/08/14/windows-10-spying-prevention-privacy-tools/
What ever you can do about stopping Microsoft from spying on you, Google already knows unless you change your browser.
There some serious bugs still. One is the “Fatal_power_error” which crashes systems. Apparently a hibernation issue that kicks in.
Installed it but forced to go back to Win7 on a dual boot as default system.
Hopefully the expected November major update can help resolve some of these issues.
Wins 10 does still have some issues that need to be addressed, normal or new users will or may find it difficult to navigate around. As for the upgrades for users that have older PC’s/Laptops they may have issues finding drivers that support Wins 10, so sound cards, VGA drivers etc are but just 2.
For these users if they have wins 7 are are looking for the chance to try something new/stable and Free try Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/start/rafaela/ this has a wins feel about it and the user does not have to be totally savvy to use it.
This distro (linux Mint) allows to create a dual boot when installing it so you can still have your wins 7 and you can choose which operating system (OS) you wish to boot into at startup.
It installs almost all the drivers required on both new and older machines, installing software is very easy and best of all 99% of the software is Free.
There always a Linux troll lurking around.
It is so slow with Chrome or Mozilla and I am certain that is deliberate to make you use the Windows search engine. I could not accept that on rain opal, but hey, who am I , you are very odd these days if you are a sheep !
it also can ruin your hard drive when downloaded. mine corrupted within hours after installing, almost €200 for a new one
Still awaiting it even though I requested it back in July!!
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