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 Boris Johnson told his cabinet on Thursday he would operate with  maximum caution  as he prepares to update the country on the lockdown on Sunday, amid concern in government about confused messaging.The prime ministers official spokesman said:  Cabinet discussed where we are in the response to the coronavirus pandemic and the review which is being conducted into social distancing measures. The prime minister said that in considering whether there could be any easement to the existing guidelines, w stanley cup e are not going to do anything that risks a second peak. We will ad termo stanley vance with maximum caution in order to protect the NHS and to save lives. Downing Street was keen to pour cold water on reports that the lockdown could be lifted from Monday, after newspaper headlines such as Lockdown Freedom Beckons and Happy Monday.Senior gover stanley website nment figures privately expressed concern about what one referred to as  over-egged  reports about both the  tone and the pace  of a potential easing.The same source also played down one report that people could be able to sit two metres away from friends outside as soon as Monday.  It will be much more cautious than what is being reported,  they said.Following a meeting of the Welsh cabinet, a spokesman said:  It is crucially important that the people of Wales are informed clearly and accurately about what, if any, changes are made to the current stay-at-home restrictions. Some of the reporting in todays newspapers is confusing and risks sending mixed message Lttg Proposals to ban  no win, no fee  advertising on TV could embarrass government
 Amnesty International s recently published death penalty statistics hailed a  decade of progress .For opponents of capital punishment, this annual tradition of significant documented falls in executions is a victory 鈥?of sorts. As Amnesty reported, of the 67 countries that handed down death sentences in 2010, only 23 actually carried out executions. These statistics, however, do not tell us this: what happened to the prisoners who escaped state execution in the remaining 44 Very little attention is given to the sanctions that should replace capital punishment, or to what happens after it is abolished. Consider Uganda. A landmark legal challenge in 2009 abolished mandatory death sentences for certain crimes. But the Ugandan criminal justice system was unprepared for the change. U stanley cup deutschland nder pressure from politicians facing a backlash from stanley thermos  a public highly supportive of capital punishment, and in the absence of any new sentencing guidelines, judges handed down draconian prison sentences instead 鈥?including life without parole, previously nonexistent in Uganda.The attraction of life without parole, now the commonest alternative to capital punishment, is understandable. It allows governments to claim they are protecting the public by permanently removing serious offenders from  kubki stanley society. It appeases public outcry at the early release of dangerous convicts on parole. And it means abolitionists can show they are not soft on crime, while at the same time eliminating the danger of ex

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 Thai workers and soldiers raced to finish defensive walls around inner Bangkok on Thursday as floodwater that has covered about a third of Thailand threatened the capital.        HT Image    At least 283 people have been killed around Thailand by heavy monsoon rain floods and mudslides since late July and in the past week several huge industrial estates north of Bangkok have been inundated adding to the damage to the economy.   After a meeting with ministers army chief Prayuth Chanocha told reporters that flood barriers in three vulnerable stanley cup  locations in Bangkok had almost been completed.  We talked about evacuation plans to help people living near the Chao Phraya river. If there s an emergency we re ready to act  he said.  The worry now is that from today until October 19 there w stanley cup ill be a high tide and the important thing is to push water out to the sea as fast as possible.  Bangkok accounts for about 41 percent of Thailand s economy and any serious disruption to life in the capital could cause growth forecasts to be slashed further.Consumer confidence fell in September because of the floods and could plunge in October, according to economists at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. The province of Ayutthaya to the north of Bangkok has been badly hit and at least three big industrial estates there have closed temporarily.  A Nikon Corp digital SLR factory and a Honda Motor Co Ltd assembly plant have closed. The north northeast and central stanley cup  plains of Thailand have been Kiaa Airport shooting suspect blamed  mind control,  Islamic State ties
 The head of the UN atomic watchdog was due to hold talks Sund stanley cup ay with senior Iranian officials on allowing its inspectors into Iran s new uranium enrichment plant at the holy city of Qom, local media said.        HT Image    Mohamed ElBaradei s visit comes after Washington and its allies demanded rapid progress in revived talks in Geneva last week on Iran s controversial nuclear programme. The International Atomic Energy Agency  IAEA  chief was expected to meet Ali Akbar Salehi stanley cup , the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, and other officials on Sunday, news agencies said.   The main purpose of his visit is to discuss with Iranian officials  how UN inspectors can visit the Qom plant, other nuclear facilities and to discuss more cooperation,  the ILNA news agency said. Iran s English-language Pre af1 ss TV said ElBaradei would not visit the Qom facility himself during his trip. The disclosure prior to the Geneva talks by Iran that it is building a second nuclear enrichment plant inside a mountain at Qom triggered worldwide outrage. His visit comes amid mounting international pressure against Iran over its uranium enrichment programme, including a demand by US President Barack Obama after Thursday s talks in Geneva for swift and  constructive  action by Tehran. Obama said that the Geneva meeting, which included the highest-level direct talks between the United States and Iran in three decades, marked a  constructive  start to defusing the nuclear standoff.  But he warned that