[모닝스페셜] 2022.01.20 공부하기 (Morning Headlines, News Coverage)

| Morning Headlines

1. South Korea’s vaccine pass regime will be expanded to department stores and big supermarkets starting today, with a weeklong grace period to reduce confusion.

오늘부터 백화점과 대형마트에 갈 때, 백신 패스가 적용될 예정입니다. 보건 당국은 혼란을 우려해, 1주일 간의 계도 기간을 두기로 했습니다.

 

2. A new strain of coronavirus that combines delta and omicron, nicknamed “deltacron”, has been discovered in Cyprus, according to local media.

코로나 바이러스의 델타 변이와 오미크론 변이가 결합한 '델타크론'이 키프로스에서 발견됐다고 현지 언론이 전했습니다.

 

3. At least 100 people in Hong Kong including top government officials have been sent into quarantine after a Covid case was detected at a birthday party they were attending.

홍콩에서, 정부 고위급 관료를 포함한 최소 100명이, 확진자가 나온 대규모 생일파티에 참석한 것으로 드러나자, 격리 조치됐습니다.

 

4. Kazakhstan's former intelligence chief has been arrested on charges of attempted government overthrow, in the wake of violent protests.

카자흐스탄의 정보기관 전 위원장이 반정부 유혈사태 속에, 정권을 몰아내기 위한 시도를 했다는 혐의로 체포됐습니다.

 

5. At least 22 people have died in a mountain resort town in Pakistan after being stranded in their vehicles overnight during a heavy snowstorm.

파키스탄 고원 지대에서, 밤사이 몰아친 극심한 눈보라 속에, 차량 안에서 발이 묶인 관광객 스물 두 명이 목숨을 잃었습니다.

 

| NEWS COVERAGE 1 FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Heavy Snow Kills 21 at Popular Tourist Site in Pakistan

 Salman Masood - c.2022 The New York Times Company

At least 21 people died Saturday when their cars became stuck on snow-covered roads leading to a popular tourist town just outside Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. Soldiers rescued people from at least 24,000 vehicles stranded by heavy snow near the hill station town of Murree, officials said. Other snowbound drivers and their passengers were given blankets and food.

 

became stuck on snow-covered roads

stranded by heavy snow

 

“Where machinery can’t reach, troops have been moved and they are clearing traffic and opening roads,” read a statement by the Pakistani military.

 

Rescue officials said the victims were found dead in their vehicles, some possibly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning overnight. The dead included a family of four daughters and two sons, all younger than 15.

 

The heavy snowfall in Murree and Pakistan’s northern regions was predicted by the country’s meteorological department no later than Jan. 5, and came as part of a broader wave of cold weather affecting the region. Officials blamed the disaster on large numbers of tourists who failed to consider weather forecasts. But critics of the government said local authorities were ill-equipped to handle the annual influx and underprepared to deal with emergency situations.

 

failed to consider weather forecasts

ill-equipped to handle the annual influx

 

Murree, a rustic mountainside town 21 miles northeast of Islamabad, is a popular tourist destination that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, and Prime Minister Imran Khan has personally promoted tourism to the area. A few days ago, Fawad Chaudhry, the Pakistani information minister, praised the heavy inflow of tourists, saying 100,000 vehicles had entered Murree.

 

praised the heavy inflow of tourists

 

But Saturday, Chaudhry was issuing pleas for people to cancel their travel plans as it had become impossible for local officials to cater to such large numbers of people. And as disaster hit, the prime minister appeared to be “Unprecedented snowfall and rush of people proceeding without checking weather conditions caught district admin unprepared,” Khan said on Twitter.

 

issuing pleas for people

 

Critics say despite Murree’s proximity to the country’s capital, and despite the predictable nature of the heavy tourist flow every year, local authorities are often overwhelmed by the large number of visitors.

 

proximity

often overwhelmed by the large number of visitors

 

“For a tragedy like this to happen on the roads of the country’s most frequented hill station is appalling,” said Sarah Ahmad, an urban policy specialist who founded Urban Innovation, a research and advocacy group based in Lahore. “These deaths were entirely avoidable and the government is answerable to the people for this oversight.”

 

the country’s most frequented hill station is appalling,

the government is answerable to the people for this oversight.

 

 

 

| NEWS COVERAGE 2 FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

 

Sidney Poitier, Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film, Dies at 94

 

William Grimes

c.2022 The New York Times Company

 

 

Sidney Poitier, whose portrayal of resolute heroes in films like “To Sir, With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” established him as Hollywood’s first Black matinee idol and helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry, has died at 94.

 

established him as Hollywood’s first Black matinee idol

 

His death was confirmed by Eugene Torchon-Newry, acting director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Bahamas, where Poitier grew up. No other details were immediately provided.

 

Poitier, whose Academy Award for the 1963 film “Lilies of the Field” made him the first Black performer to win in the best actor category, rose to prominence when the civil rights movement was beginning to make headway in the United States. His roles tended to reflect the peaceful integrationist goals of the struggle.

 

rose to prominence

make headway

His roles tended to reflect the peaceful integrationist goals of the struggle.

 

Although often simmering with repressed anger, his characters responded to injustice with quiet determination. They met hatred with reason and forgiveness, sending a reassuring message to white audiences and exposing Poitier to attack as an Uncle Tom when the civil rights movement took a more militant turn in the late 1960s.

 

Although often simmering with repressed anger

took a more militant turn in the late 1960s

 

Throughout his career, a heavy weight of racial significance bore down on Poitier and the characters he played. “I felt very much as if I were representing 15, 18 million people with every move I made,” he once wrote.

 

bore down on Poitier

I felt very much

 

Poitier grew up in the Bahamas, but he was born on Feb. 20, 1927, in Miami, where his parents traveled regularly to sell their tomato crop. In 1951 he married Juanita Marie Hardy, a dancer and model, whom he divorced in 1965. They had four daughters. In 1976 he married Joanna Shimkus, his co-star in “The Lost Man”, a film about a gang of Black militants plotting to rob a factory. They had two daughters. Shimkus survives him. Complete information about other survivors was not immediately available.

Shimkus survives him

 

In 2002, Poitier was given an honorary Oscar for his career’s work in motion pictures. And in 2009, President Barack Obama, citing his “relentless devotion to breaking down barriers,” awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

 

“relentless devotion to breaking down barriers,”

 

 

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