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« on: November 10, 2022, 08:34:14 AM »
China warns against extra 'layers' of COVID-19 curbs as outbreaks widen
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China is grappling with its highest tallies of coronavirus cases since April, raising questions about its zero-COVID policy that has frustrated the public and inflicted damage on the world's second-largest economy. New domestic cases rose to 8,824 on Wednesday, according to health authority data.
China has repeatedly said it would stick to the zero-COVID policy despite the growing outbreaks but pressure is growing on the central government to rein in over-zealous authorities in the provinces fearing blame for failing to contain the virus.
Thousands of government officials have been punished for various perceived failings in the nearly three years of the pandemic.
"All localities will further improve the level of scientific and precise prevention and control, strive to achieve the greatest prevention and control effect at the least cost, and minimise the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development," Xinhua reported.
It cited improvements in the implementation of measures in some major cities such as Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan.
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« on: November 08, 2022, 07:40:49 AM »
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Some suggest that technology is a young person’s game. Others have pointed out that these assumptions are charged with ageism.
A Gen-X-er in her early 40s, Nelly Lee shrugs off such assumptions. Even though Lee works as a DevOps engineer for one of the world’s leading gaming companies – which she prefers not to name – she laughs at herself in good humour.
“I am a noob,” declared the 42-year-old, using a term that commonly describes newbies in the gaming world. “I know how to use a computer, but tech terms, and even the difference between Windows and MacOS, used to be completely lost on me.”
Lee did not need to know these terms. For most of her career, she worked in the travel industry, leading tours, selling tour packages and planning itineraries. Yet, last year, she made a surprising job switch to a tech role where she now manages codes for game updates and fixes bugs.
It was not an easy switch. Partly driven by pandemic desperation, and partly inspired by her great love for her eight-year-old daughter, the single mother told CNA Women what gave her the courage to push through with her extreme mid-career switch.
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« on: November 05, 2022, 05:10:55 AM »
US jobs growth solid but slowing amid inflation fight
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Employers added 261,000 jobs in October, while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.7%, the US Labor Department said on Friday.
The news comes as the economy remains a top concern for voters ahead of next week's midterm elections.
Despite a strong labour market, soaring costs have hit public confidence.
Consumer prices are rising at a pace not seen since the early 1980s. Inflation, which measures how the cost of living changes over time, is up 8.2% over the 12 months to September.
While the rate has slowed since June as motor fuel prices fall, the cost of groceries, medical bills and many other items continues to climb.
The issue has weighed on Democrats, who were already fighting an uphill battle to maintain their slim hold of Congress.
"People are depressed and often people vote with their pocketbooks," said Beth Ann Bovino, chief US economist at S&P Global Ratings. "Inflation is almost everywhere. People are squeezed at the checkout stand, they're squeezed with their rental payments, when they try to buy a home."
The White House has made the case that some slowdown is expected - and healthy - as the economy returns to normal after the surge in activity when it reopened from lockdowns.
And for now, government figures suggest there has only been mild softening in the labour market.
Although the unemployment rate ticked up from 3.5% in September, the 261,000 jobs added last month was far better than economists had expected, with healthcare and manufacturing firms helping to drive the hiring.
Wage gains were also strong, despite not keeping pace with inflation, with average hourly pay up 4.7% over the past year.
"We're going to do what it takes to bring inflation down," President Joe Biden said Friday, responding to the latest figures. "But as long as I'm president, I'm not going to accept an argument that the problem is that too many Americans are finding good jobs. "
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« on: November 03, 2022, 07:49:44 AM »
How the Halloween tragedy unfolded
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Gathering crowds
Thousands of mainly young people had converged in Itaewon in the centre of the South Korean capital of Seoul.
It's a lively party spot with many narrow streets and alleys filled with bars and restaurants.
Some accounts say more than 100,000 had descended on the area that evening.
The neighbourhood is served by Itaewon metro station, and videos on social media show streams of people arriving to celebrate Halloween from early evening on Saturday.
Nuhyil Ahammed, 32, was in the crowd. The IT worker from India lives nearby and had been to Halloween parties in Itaewon before, but says things were very different this year.
The crush
In the last call at 22:11 - one of the briefest made - the caller said: "It feels like people can get crushed here."
Minutes later, the deadly crush began.
At about 22:15 a number of people on the sloping pathway fell over. Crowds pressing from both ends of the alley made it impossible to get out.
Social media footage shows some people trying to climbing up the sides of the buildings to escape.
At 22:24, fire authorities say they received reports that 10 people were pushed down under the crowd and experiencing breathing difficulties.
At 22:27, the first four ambulances were dispatched, followed by six more a few minutes later, according to the authorities.
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« on: November 01, 2022, 09:18:54 AM »
Will the NI Secretary U-turn over Christmas poll?
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Chris Heaton-Harris vowed to call an assembly election as soon as the midnight deadline passed last week.
He didn't and is now playing for more time leaving 6,000 electoral staff in limbo still unsure if they will be running an election 10 days before Christmas.
The secretary of state has another week to play with if he wants to send voters to the polls on 15 December.
Legally he is still obliged to do so, but politically he seems to be moving in another direction.
Over the weekend he attempted to set a new path which might or might not lead to a snap election.
On Tuesday, he will discuss the "next steps" with the four executive parties.
They include keeping public services running and "protecting public finances" in the Stormont power vacuum.
He has even reheated the old threat of cutting MLAs salaries if the crisis is not resolved.
But there will be no MLAs officially in post if he sticks to his "intention" to call an election.
By threatening to pull other levers it raises questions about his commitment to pull the lever on another poll.
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« on: October 29, 2022, 05:00:48 AM »
Singing Finnish MP wows Somali arts festival
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He was attending one of the events put on for the ongoing annual festival, which takes place during Black History Month in the UK.
The 29-year-old, who moved to Finland from Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, in 2008, was on the bill to talk about the importance of Somali culture and the role it plays for Somalia’s large diaspora - many having left the country over the last three decades because of civil conflict.
Mr Ahmed treated the crowd to several famous Somali songs, one of which was Soomaaliyeey Toosoo, meaning “Somalis, Wake Up”. This even served as the country’s national anthem for 12 years until 2012. The lyrics underlie the Somali spirit of resilience, summed up in the phrase: “Do not let the enemy rule over you. You are a camel.”
People in the audience clapped along, others stood up to sing with him.
“In our Somali culture, arts and literature are very important to us, it’s used to convey messages,” the MP said.
This incapsulates the incentive of the festival, now in its 14th year - to showcase the diversity of Somalis through literature, poetry, art and music.
Events are also being held in Bristol and Leicester with people typically dressing up in their finest clothes to celebrate, some in traditional attire.
This year's festival launched hundreds of books and brought together many from the Somali creative arts, including photographer Nuura Alhuda who presented her book on Somaliland's wildlife and endangered heritage sites:
“Somali Week is not just for senior Somali artists on the map, but we encourage young artists in the UK, around the globe and also those back home," said Ayan Mohamoud, founder of Kayd Somali Arts and Culture, a London-based group.
The festival will end on Sunday evening with a concert by three big Somali music stars: Awaleh Aden from Djibouti, Ali Dhaanto from Ethiopia and Ikran Jama from the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.
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« on: October 27, 2022, 05:10:17 AM »
Heathrow passenger limit may return for Christmas
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A 100,000 daily cap imposed over the summer due to staff shortages will be lifted at the end of October.
But Heathrow warned it could return "if needed" to avoid flight cancellations in the run-up to the festive period.
The airport said passenger numbers were unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels "for a number of years" but it needed to recruit thousands more staff.
Heathrow bosses expect there to be 25% fewer travellers this year compared to 2019, with up to 62 million people passing through.
The cost-of-living crisis, Ukraine war and impact of Covid had hit demand for international travel, it said.
John Holland-Kaye, chief executive of Britain's largest airport told the BBC the airport wanted to "get back to full capacity as soon as possible".
"We don't want to have a cap at all," he told the Today programme. "The reason for having a cap is to make sure we keep supply and demand in balance.
"It was absolutely the right thing to do over the summer. It meant for the summer holidays people could get away with confidence."
But Virgin Atlantic urged the airport to avoid passenger capacity limits during the Christmas travel window "that would ruin customer plans".
"Virgin Atlantic remains ready to deliver a full winter schedule and we expect Heathrow to do the same," the airline said.
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« on: October 25, 2022, 08:43:51 AM »
Former US military pilot who worked in China arrested in Australia, faces extradition
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Australian Federal Police arrested Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, on Friday (Oct 21) in the rural town of Orange in New South Wales, and he appeared in court there on the same day, court records show and two police sources and his lawyer confirmed.
His lawyer appeared by video conference, and Duggan was denied bail and taken to the nearby Bathurst jail, two of the sources said.
Duggan is a former US citizen and the federal police were acting on a US request for his arrest ahead of likely formal extradition proceedings, said one of the police sources, who was not authorised to speak publicly.
Duggan's next court appearance will be in Sydney in November to consider any bail application. Details of the US arrest warrant and the charges he faces are sealed.
"An individual was arrested on Oct 21, 2022 pursuant to a request from the US for their provisional arrest," a spokesman for the federal Attorney-General's Department said in a written statement to Reuters. "As the matter is before the courts, it would not be appropriate to comment further."
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« on: October 22, 2022, 07:49:07 AM »
Banks forced to hold on to Twitter deal debt-sources
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The banks are not planning to syndicate the debt as is typical with such acquisitions, and are instead planning to keep it on their balance sheets until there is more investor appetite, the sources said.
The banks, which include Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Barclays Plc, declined to comment. Representatives for Musk and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Musk agreed to pay $44 billion for Twitter in April, before the Federal Reserve started raising interest rates in a bid to fight inflation. This made the acquisition financing look too cheap in the eyes of credit investors, so the banks would have to take a financial hit totaling hundreds of millions of dollars to get it off their books.
Also preventing the banks from marketing the debt was uncertainty around the deal's completion. Musk has tried to get out of the deal, arguing Twitter misled him over the number of spam accounts on the platform, and only agreed to comply with a Delaware court judge's Oct. 28 deadline to close the transaction earlier this month. He has not revealed details on Twitter's new leadership and business plan, and many debt investors are holding back until they get more details on that front, the sources said.
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« on: October 20, 2022, 08:25:15 AM »
Woodlands Checkpoint power outage: ICA to deploy more generators during maintenance periods
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These generators will complement a "secondary electrical infrastructure” that ICA had already planned to build to “further enhance power resiliency at Woodlands and Tuas Checkpoints” prior to the incident at Woodlands Checkpoint earlier this month which caused issues with immigration clearance for several hours.
On Oct 8 at around 11.40pm, ICA was conducting a scheduled maintenance of the power source at Woodlands Checkpoint. The timing was chosen as it is typically an off-peak period at the checkpoint, said Associate Professor Faishal.
As part of the maintenance, the backup power generator was activated to provide power.
But at around 12.20am on Oct 9, the backup power generator failed, resulting in a power outage that disrupted checkpoint operations.
Power was restored at around 4am and immigration clearance resumed at about 5.15am.
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« on: October 19, 2022, 04:26:18 AM »
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Mr Davies raises two examples of long waits, including a story on Walesonline of a man who was stuck on a floor waiting 15 hours.
He reads out quotes from the man's daughter accusing Wales of having a health service like a "third world country" and that Aneurin Bevan, the Labour minister who oversaw the creation of the NHS, would be turning in his grave.
In response, Mr Drakeford accuses Mr Davies of being "partly responsible for the mess we're in" because he supported Liz Truss for the Conservative leadership.
The first minister acknowledges that "the system is under enormous pressure" but he warns that Conservative "cuts to the health service" will increase that pressure.
Mr Drakeford says it was "shocking that you think that you can turn up here this afternoon with the mess that your party has made, to the budgets of this country, to the reputation of this country around the world".
Angrily flipping the pages of his briefing notes, he tells Mr Davies: "You think you can turn up here this afternoon and claim some sort of moral high ground? What sort of world do you belong in?"
There are extraordinary scenes as the first minister and Andrew RT Davies shout angrily at each other, with the Llywydd Elin Jones calling for calm.
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« on: October 17, 2022, 04:56:27 AM »
What was said on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg?
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- New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he's "not taking anything off the table" when it comes to balancing the books, and will ask every government department to find more efficiency savings
- Despite alluding to a squeeze on public spending and tax rises, Hunt said he didn't believe there would be a return to the kind of austerity seen in the UK in the early 2010s
- He dismissed suggestions he was now running the country, insisting that "the prime minister is in charge"
- Shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds accused the government of doing "terrible damage" to people's finances, saying Labour has a "completely different economic philosophy"
- Reynolds said Labour couldn't commit to cutting the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 19p despite earlier support for the government pledge from his leader Sir Keir Starmer
- Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Prime Minister Liz Truss could still hang on to her authority, but only by taking certain steps, including a cabinet reshuffle to bring in members of the "broader Conservative Party"
- Tesco chairman John Allan signalled support for Labour's plans for the economy, saying he'd seen the "beginnings of a quite plausible plan"
What happens next? Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt are meeting at the prime minister's weekend retreat in Chequers today. We'll continue to bring you comment and reaction on this page.
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« on: October 14, 2022, 05:44:58 AM »
Collector finds more than 90 missing recordings
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Bing Crosby, Dame Margot Fonteyn, James Stewart, David Hockney and Dirk Bogarde are among the big names who appear in the episodes found by Richard Harrison.
He described finding the missing recordings which date back to the 1960s and 1970s as "a great feeling".
Former Discs presenter Sue Lawley said: "Thank God for Mr Lowestoft."
The voices on the rediscovered tapes speak from a bygone era; clipped, formal, with the odd American accent thrown in.
Amongst the US stars are not just Crosby and Stewart but one of the most popular entertainers of the first half of the 20th Century, the actress and singer Sophie Tucker. Unlike these men, but like many others on the list, Tucker is no longer a household name.
Many of the luxuries chosen by the interviewees being cast away are also of a different time.
Fonteyn asks for the kind of "mask that skin divers use".
Bogarde wants John Singer Sargent's "haunting" portrait of the Sitwell family, pointing out that he could turn it into a tent or a raft if he needed to.
Bob Monkhouse asks for a "large colour picture of Marilyn Monroe to remind me of what I'm supposed to forget".
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« on: October 12, 2022, 07:35:34 AM »
Statkraft aims to make green hydrogen at ex-arms depot
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Renewable energy firm Statkraft UK wants to build a green energy hub at the former Royal Navy Armaments Depot in Trecwn, Pembrokeshire.
It aims to extract hydrogen from water by using electricity generated from wind turbines and solar panels.
The company is to due hold a series of public consultations before submitting an application to planners next year.
The sprawling site once housed the biggest underground secret arms depot in Europe, storing torpedoes, mines and other armaments for Royal Navy warships.
Statkraft UK has earmarked a disused rail transfer shed for its Trecwn Green Energy Hub, producing about three tonnes of hydrogen a day if its plans are realised.
Matt Kelly, from Statkraft UK, said it has the "potential to act a catalyst for the redevelopment of Trecwn Valley".
"We're working closely with Pembrokeshire County Council and, despite being at an early stage of the project, we're keen to hear what local people think," he said.
The company said its green hydrogen could be used to power trains "delivering many of the benefits of electrification, such as using a zero-carbon fuel, but at significantly lower capital costs and with fewer requirements for new infrastructure".
"It could also power Pembrokeshire council's fleet of HGV lorries and local buses, with the site able to produce enough green hydrogen to run around 170 buses every day," it said.
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« on: October 10, 2022, 05:47:25 AM »
Leona was 'a fantastic young rugby player'The youth section chairman at the Letterkenny Rugby Club, Jeremy Worth, told RTÉ's This Week programme about Leona's love for sport.
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"Leona started playing rugby while still at national school. She competed alongside the boys and her competitive edge and sporting prowess was evident back then," he said.
Mr Worth added that she had developed into a "fantastic young player".
He said Leona's teammates will be struggling to come to terms with their loss.
"Within our club we are opening the doors tonight so that people can come together and get a bit of personal support if they need it," he said.
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