Cuban parliament fingers second presidential time period to Díaz-Canel

Cuban lawmakers elected President Miguel Díaz-Canel to a second five-year time period April 19, handing him 459 of 460 votes within the National Assembly, the official Communist Party newspaper Granma reported. Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa was additionally re-elected. In 2018, the 62-year-old Díaz-Canel succeeded the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, making him the primary non-Castro ruler of the one-party Caribbean island state because the revolution in 1959.

Jet bridge collapse at an Atlanta airport injures a number of staff

Multiple individuals have been injured on the night of April 21 when a jet bridge collapsed on the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, officers stated. Several staff have been on the jet bridge on Concourse F when the bridge malfunctioned shortly earlier than 7 p.m., a spokesperson for the Atlanta airport stated. The bridge dropped roughly 15 ft with the workers inside. The airport employees have been checked by emergency personnel, however officers didn’t launch the extent of their accidents. The actual variety of staff injured was additionally not supplied. The incident had no influence on the airport’s operations. Officials didn’t say what triggered the malfunction or what airline was utilizing the gate on the time.

Ugandan president doesn’t signal anti-homosexuality legislation

Uganda’s draconian new anti-gay laws, which might enable for gay acts to be punished by lengthy jail sentences and even the demise penalty, is being revised after heavy worldwide criticism. President Yoweri Museveni shunned signing the legislation, which had already been handed by parliament, inside the required deadline. The ruling National Resistance Movement social gathering will revise and suggest “improvements” of the textual content after consultations with Museveni, a celebration official wrote on Twitter on April 20.

Three injured in an unintentional Russian firing in Belgorod metropolis

Three individuals have now been reported injured after a Russian fighter jet by chance fired on the Russian metropolis of Belgorod close to Ukraine on April 20, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov stated. Nobody’s life is at risk, Gladkov wrote on Telegram on April 21. On the night of April 20, a heavy explosion had occurred in the course of a Belgorod crossroads, leaving a gap with a 20-yard radius within the floor. Later, the Defense Ministry in Moscow stated a Russian fighter jet had skilled an “unplanned launch of ammunition” over the town. Initially, there had been discuss of two injured ladies. All residents of a broken residence constructing have been quickly relocated, Gladkov wrote. Some have been staying with kinfolk, others in a resort. At least three individuals have been injured within the unintentional firing.