A fourth person who flew in for the Australian Open has tested positive to Covid-19, sending even more international players into hotel quarantine. Covid quarantine commissioner Emma Cassar on Sunday confirmed a member of a broadcast team on an Australian Open charter flight from Los Angeles to Melbourne has tested positive.A flight attendant and a tennis…
Kit Knightly Part of the main duty of OffGuardian is to troll through the masses of media output and try and pick up patterns. Sometimes the patterns are subtle, a gentle urging behind the paragraphs. Sometimes they’re more like a sledgehammer to the face. This has been face-hammer week. In fact, it’s been a face-hammer…
By Mark SavageBBC music reporterPublishedduration4 hours agoimage copyrightDelaney Royerimage captionFunky fresh pop trio Avenue Beat (L-R): Sami Bearden, Sam Backoff and Savana SantosHow do you follow up a song that goes viral in the middle of a pandemic?That was the dilemma facing US pop band Avenue Beat, who landed an unexpected hit last year when…
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Liberal religious groups and minority faith communities around the country are urging caution in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, with some expressing concerns of potential violence against “liberal churches.” On Friday evening (Jan 15), the United Church of Christ tweeted out a message to member churches warning “there…
Publishedduration1 hour agoTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February.Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use.NHS…
By Barbara M. Houle | Correspondent Che! Empanada at 19 Kelley Square, Worcester, is a new place where you can find a little piece of Argentina.Albie Alvarez-Cote of West Newton and Chef Roy Caceser of Concord, New Hampshire, opened the restaurant Jan. 6 with plans for a grand opening celebration sometime in late February. The…
Como médica de emergencias, la doctora Eugenia South fue parte del primer grupo de personas en recibir la vacuna contra covid. Tuvo su segunda dosis a principios de enero, incluso antes que el presidente electo Joe Biden. Así y todo, South dice que no tiene apuro por dejar de usar máscara “Honestamente, no creo que…
(Pixabay) A privacy organization has launched a campaign to encourage state lawmakers to crack down on "consent searches" of smartphones and other electronic devices because of their threat to privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation explained how a typical search takes place. "You’re driving home. Police pull you over, allegedly for a traffic violation. After you…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) soberly predicted Friday that the Republican Party will be destroyed and hemorrhage a third of its members if party leadership votes to convict President Donald Trump during a second impeachment trial.During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Paul described the second impeachment push against Trump as “crazy,” and further…
Something touched me deep inside The day the music died Don Mclean We live in troubling times. The American election is over but the popular belief that it was fraudulently engineered shows no sign of abating. The evidence that a vast conspiracy has occurred, particularly in several swing states, is convincing for a significant portion…
Inauguration day, US earnings and central banks set to dominate week ahead for marketsSkip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerIt promises to be a big week in global markets, with US politics remaining firmly in focus and plenty of data for market participants to peruse.Stocks in Europe and the US plunged to finish last…
“The purpose of impeachment is to get somebody out of office. If they’re already out of office what’s the purpose? It’s all a political act, and the Establishment getting rid of a non-establishment figure who was seen as a treat to their agendas and who had massive popular support.” – Paul Craig Roberts (from today’s…
RB Leipzig spurned the chance to move top of the Bundesliga after a 2-2 draw at Wolfsburg. Julian Nagelsmann's men were out to recover from last weekend's loss to Borussia Dortmund and went ahead in the fifth minute through Nordi Mukiele. Wolfsburg frontman Wout Weghorst headed in an equaliser in the 22nd minute and Renato Steffen's deflected shot put the home side…
By AP • last updated: 16/01/2021 - 23:46 Members of the National Guard change shifts as they exit through anti-scaling security fencing on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, in Washington. - Copyright Jacquelyn Martin/APWashington DC was abuzz with National Guard troops on Saturday, as governors answered the urgent pleas of US defence officials for more personnel to help safeguard the capital.Military…
A further 10 mass vaccination centres are due to open in England this week with more than a million over-80s invited to receive their coronavirus jab. Blackburn Cathedral, St Helens rugby ground, Norwich Food Court and a park-and-ride outside York are among the new locations where large-scale vaccination will take place from Monday. NHS England…
Conservative MP Kelly Tolhurst has resigned as a Housing Minister after receiving ‘devastating’ family news. Ms Tolhurst, who represents Rochester and Strood, said she needed to spend ‘precious time’ with her family following the tragedy. In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Rochester and Strood representative said she hoped to have the opportunity to…
A concerning new strain of coronavirus is likely to already be in the UK despite the Government imposing a travel ban from affected countries, a leading epidemiologist has warned.Professor John Edmunds, a member of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said he would find it “unusual” if the second of two new variants…
Addis Ababa — Following the latest attack in Metekel zone of Benishangul Gumuz regional state in which several dozens of people were killed, a mass funeral was held on January 13 afternoon with the support from members of the National Defense Forces who are part of the special task force assigned by Prime Minister Abiy…
NEW DELHI: As the demand for work under MGNREGS during the pandemic unemployment shot through the roof, the share of work per household slipped by four days. Surprising as it seems, the average employment per household was 48.40 days in 2019-20 when the number of families that worked under the job scheme was 5.48 crore.…
The Venezuelan Government rejected on Saturday the decision of a U.S. Federal Court to initiate the process of selling the PDVSA's U.S. subsidiary, CITGO, one of Donald Trump's administrations' latest attacks against the Bolivarian government. RELATED: US Backs Guaido's Farce Extending Protection on CITGO "We alert the world that this judicial operation has not only been encouraged by…
An Israeli star wrestler was born in Nice, France on Saturday. Mitchell Louis Finesilver won the bronze medal in the freestyle 74 kg class, defeating an Azerbaijani opponent at the elite wrestling competition.The Flo Wrestling journalist David Bray tweeted after Finesilver defeated a Polish wrestler to enter the bronze medal round: “Mitch Finesilver will wrestle…
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