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Safety regulator refused to investigate some NHS staff Covid deaths
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Britain’s safety at work regulator refused to investigate reports from NHS trusts that 10 frontline staff had died as a result of catching Covid-19 during the pandemic. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) declined t...
UK finance ‘faces £340bn in losses’ without action on climate change
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UK banks and insurers will end up shouldering nearly £340bn worth of climate-related losses by 2050, unless action is taken to curb rising temperatures and sea levels, the Bank of England has warned. The numbers emerg...
Airbnb to close in China amid repeated Covid lockdowns
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Airbnb is closing down its business inside China indefinitely, as the country’s zero-Covid policy, lockdowns and travel restrictions continue. On Tuesday Airbnb told its China-based users it would cease taking all boo...
Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
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Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student – and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being paid a government salary to ...
Kim Jong-un buries mentor amid North Korea Covid crisis
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Kim Jong-un attended the funeral for a top North Korean official, state media reported on Monday, helping carry his coffin, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its coronavirus outbreak is subsiding....
‘The lady without legs or arms’: how artist Sarah Biffin shattered Victorian ideas about disability
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She was born without arms and legs to a farming family in 1784 and, measuring just 37 inches in height as an adult, was put on show in touring fairground attractions. Billed as The Limbless Wonder, Sarah Biffin painte...