Sen. Blackburn Thanks Biden for Disaster Declaration
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., thanked President Joe Biden for quickly approving Tennessee’s request to declare a disaster after flash flooding in the state left at least 22 dead over the weekend…
Coronavirus Italia, il bollettino di oggi 24 agosto: 6.076 positivi e 60 vittime
Read More Sono 266.246 i tamponi molecolari e antigenici per il coronavirus effettuati nelle ultime 24 ore. Ieri erano stati 101.341. Il tasso di positività è del 2,28%, in calo rispetto al 4,11% di ieri. I pazienti ricoverati in terapia intensiva salgono a 504, 19 in più rispetto a ieri. I ricoverati con sintomi nei […]
Meeting di Rimini – È sviluppo se aumenta la disuguaglianza?
Read More 24 agosto 2021 <iframe class=”rep-video-embed” src=”https://video.repubblica.it/embed/economia-e-finanza/meeting-di-rimini-e-sviluppo-se-aumenta-la-disuguaglianza/394497/395206&width=640&height=360″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> Il noto economista Jean-Paul Fitoussi, il padre dell’economia civile Stefano Zamagni e il presidente dell’Enciclopedia Treccani, già presidente della Corte Costituzionale Franco Gallo si confrontano sul tema delle disuguaglianze economiche. Se da un lato il divario […]
Bahrain used Israeli NSO spyware to target pro-democracy activists, report finds
Read More At least nine Bahraini nationals were targeted and had their phones remotely hacked using the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware, Citizen Lab claimed in a new report published Tuesday. The NSO Group blasted the report’s findings as technically “impossible” and called its publication “irresponsible.” Toronto-based Citizen Lab has long researched and investigated alleged abuses by […]
Harris’s Flight to Vietnam Delayed by ‘Health Incident’ in Hanoi
Read More Vice President Kamala Harris’s flight to Singapore was delayed on Tuesday because of an unusual health incident, according to the State Department. “Earlier this evening, the Vice President’s traveling delegation was delayed from departing Singapore because the Vice President’s office was made aware of a report of a recent possible anomalous health incident […]
Four officials suspended over R124m wasted by defence department
Read More The defence and military veterans department, which suffered more than R124-million in irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, conceded on Tuesday that its bursary programme for veterans’ children was beset with bad management. Four senior managers have been placed on precautionary suspension, Defence and Military Veterans Deputy Minister Thabang Makwetla told a briefing in […]
UK house sales tumble in July after stamp duty holiday deadline
Read More Property UK house sales tumble in July after stamp duty holiday deadline Property transactions slumped 62% to 82,110 after government scaled back tax break Tue 24 Aug 2021 10.03 EDT Last modified on Tue 24 Aug 2021 10.09 EDT House sales tumbled by almost two-thirds in July after tens of thousands of homebuyers […]
Blue whales returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after 40-year absence
Read More Whales Blue whales returning to Spain’s Atlantic coast after 40-year absence Some experts fear climate crisis is leading creatures back to area where they were hunted almost to extinction in Barcelona Tue 24 Aug 2021 10.33 EDT Last modified on Tue 24 Aug 2021 10.48 EDT Blue whales, the world’s largest mammals, are […]
Dan Crenshaw issues blistering response to Taliban’s demand all US troops leave by Aug. 31
Post Content Rep. Dan Crenshaw issued a blistering response to the Taliban’s demands that the U.S. leave Afghanistan by the end of August. “The only proper response from America to these dirty savage terrorists should be: Go f*** yourself,” Crenshaw tweeted on Monday. “By refusing to extend the self-imposed Aug 31st deadline, President Biden is […]
San Fran DA Boudin cheers Cuomo granting clemency to convicted murderer father
Post Content San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Monday his “heart is bursting” after now-former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to his father, a former member of the left-wing militant group Weather Underground, who is behind bars for his role in a 1981 armed robbery that left three people dead. In one […]