New York City will slash the number of attendees in Times Square and require masks, AstraZeneca says three doses of its vaccine is effective against Omicron, citing Oxford study
Trump isn’t out there with a gun, but he’s enabled this war against black people
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Verlede naweek, just as I finished a live performance in California of Four Questions, the Grammy award-winning jazz collaboration for which I provided spoken words, word reached me about the racist killing of 10 mense ...
Dugongs and sea turtles at risk after Queensland floods wipe out seagrass, studie toon
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Catastrophic floods earlier this year wiped out one of the largest and most important seagrass meadows in eastern Australia, increasing the risk that dugongs and sea turtles will become stranded, according to research...
Covid cases and hospitalizations rising in US as vaccine rates for children lag
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Rising coronavirus infections and hospitalizations across the US are spurring fears of an uncertain summer amid new calls for children to be vaccinated. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now ...
Woman ‘abused’ by MI5 agent takes legal action against service
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A woman who said she was terrorised by an MI5 agent with a background in rightwing extremism is taking legal action against the security service. Beth, nie haar regte naam nie, claimed the man, her former partner, attacked ...
We obeyed Covid rules as our dad died. I’m angry the PM has dodged a Partygate reckoning
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Hearing the news that Boris Johnson appears to have to got away with “Partygate” quite simply made me angry. The number of fines that he personally receives – which people now think will only be the one – doesn’t matt...
Global heating is cutting sleep across the world, studie bevind
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Rising temperatures driven by the climate crisis are cutting the sleep of people across the world, the largest study to date has found. Good sleep is critical to health and wellbeing. But global heating is increasing ...
NSW government underspent on PPE and mental health, audit of $7.5bn Covid spending finds
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The New South Wales government underspent on personal protective equipment and mental health services and forked out close to $200m on faulty imported masks and ventilators as part of the state’s $7.5bn pandemic expen...
Noord-Korea se Covid-gevallelading gaan verby 2 miljoen te midde van wêreldwye kommer oor die regime se pandemieplan
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Kenners het Noord-Korea se bewering bevraagteken dat hy 'goeie resultate' behaal in sy stryd teen 'n Covid-19-uitbraak, aangesien die aantal mense met simptome van die virus oortref het 2 miljoen. Die regime het berig 26...