News in :90 – Nov. 26, 2019

Albania’s Defense Ministry has reported two more dead in the western port city of Durres following an early morning earthquake, taking the confirmed death toll to 16. The ministry said only that the bodies were found, apparently in one of the collapsed buildings in the western city 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the capital Tirana.

Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu said medical teams had taken care of more than 600 injured people, with nine of them in life-threatening condition. Rescue teams from neighboring Kosovo and Montenegro, as well as from Italy, have already arrived, while a convoy of trucks has entered the country from Greece. They are slowly working trying to find survivors in the rubble of the collapsed buildings.

Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a United Nations base to protest repeated rebel assaults, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. At least four protesters were killed, a local official said.

Every day that health workers don’t have full access to Ebola-affected areas is a “tragedy” that prolongs the second-worst Ebola outbreak in history, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter. Instead, Beni residents are outraged that rebels continue to carry out deadly attacks despite the presence of U.N. peacekeepers and Congolese forces. Some demand that the U.N. mission act or leave.

In her latest piece, TommieMedia columnist Kayla Mayer argues that patriotism is not synonymous with supporting President Donald Trump. Showing one’s love for the country should mean participating in democracy and, thus, expressing one’s opinion.

This naturally leads to disagreement as people think and believe different things. Disagreeing with Trump does not make a person unpatriotic. Check TommieMedia for the full story.

Maddie Peters can be reached at pete9542@stthomas.edu.