Merk: Driving
Appetite for frogs’ legs in France and Belgium ‘driving species to extinction’
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A voracious appetite for frogs’ legs among the French and Belgians is driving species in Indonesia, Turkey and Albania to the brink of extinction, volgens 'n verslag. Europe imports as many as 200 million mostly wi...
Driving while kidnapped: Florida man drives erratically to attract police
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A man in Florida who had allegedly been kidnapped and was being held hostage as he drove was able to successfully alert police officers by driving erratically. The resident of Port St Lucie, who works as a dog breeder...
Driving while kidnapped: Florida man drives erratically to attract police
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A man in Florida who had allegedly been kidnapped and was being held hostage as he drove was able to successfully alert police officers by driving erratically. The resident of Port St Lucie, who works as a dog breeder...
Testing rates, Covid and the lockdown effect: what’s driving Australia’s big flu season?
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Australia is experiencing some of the highest levels of confirmed influenza cases, fever and cough in the last five years, but this hasn’t translated to an “unprecedented” number of hospitalisations. Experts say one r...
Cost and chaos: what’s driving Britons to holiday at home
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Chaotic scenes at airports have become routine during school holidays due to staff shortages and pent-up demand after the pandemic. While some have plans to go abroad this summer, many are staying within the UK, conti...
‘Mist was everywhere’: extreme weather driving North America’s pollen overload
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Eerste, he had the symptoms. Then he saw the yellow fog. A thin layer of gold-coloured dust coated the patio furniture, the patio, his children’s swing set – everything in the garden of Ubaka Ogbogu’s home in the Canad...
Surge in cold and flu cases driving 50% increase in workplace sick leave across Australia
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A “perfect storm” of circulating winter illnesses and a lack of immunity due to the population not being exposed to the flu in recent years is driving a surge in Australian workers calling in sick, with absenteeism ra...
Ohio judge hears if pharmacy chains should pay for driving opioid crisis
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A federal judge in Cleveland has begun hearing demands that three of the largest pharmacy chains in the US pay billions of dollars in restitution after a jury found they helped drive America’s opioid epidemic. The siz...
Frustrated witness in Depp v Heard trial starts driving during deposition – video
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The court struggled to contain laughter as they listened to the prerecorded testimony of Alejandro Romero, who worked at the apartment building in Los Angeles where Johnny Depp and Amber Heard had previously lived tog...
Violence in Mexico and Central America driving large waves of migration
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Waves of migration through Mexico and Central America, and people who go missing, will increase in 2022 due to high levels of violence in the region, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) gesê. “In many ...
What’s driving Vladimir Putin and his assault on Ukraine?
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The president’s attitude to power – in Russia and beyond – has changed steadily since 1999, says Sam Greene, the co-author of Putin v the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia ...
TfL fined me for driving in the ULEZ – has someone cloned my car plates?
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Sometime in January someone started falsely using my car’s number plate. The first I knew about it was a parking charge at Stansted airport, which was quickly sorted out when I explained it wasn’t me or my car. Howeve...
Covid driving record numbers in England to become nurses
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The Covid pandemic has inspired record numbers of people to become nurses, met meer as 56,000 signing up to nursing courses or apprenticeships in England since the outbreak in early 2020, volgens 'n verslag. Fig...
UK motorist caught driving while distracted nine times in four years
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A motorist was caught driving while distracted nine times in the past four years, new figures reveal, with road safety campaigners calling for repeat offenders to have their licences revoked. Die persoon, who has not b...
Tieners en jong volwassenes wat bestuur, teken Covid-gevalle in die VSA aan, sê gesondheidsbeamptes
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Aangesien die VSA rekordgetalle daaglikse koronavirusgevalle sien wat deur die hoogs oordraagbare Omicron-variant aangedryf word, openbare gesondheidsowerhede landwyd het gesê dat tieners en jonger volwassenes help om hierdie ink..
Tesla, bowing to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving
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Under pressure from US auto safety regulators, Tesla has agreed to stop allowing video games to be played on center touch screens while its vehicles are moving. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says ...