Giorno: 21 Luglio 2022

UK cost-of-living package doesn’t go far enough, say charities

Read More Child poverty campaigners have accused the government of “abandoning” struggling families after it announced a cost-of-living package that included free theatre tickets and supermarket discounts. They spoke out as Boris Johnson prepared to meet with some of the UK’s biggest retailers on Thursday to discuss the Help for Households scheme which is meant […]

Man, 73, who cut wife’s throat in suicide pact cleared of murder

Read More A man who slit his wife’s throat “in an act of love” and tried to kill himself has been found not guilty of murder after a judge accepted the couple had made a suicide pact. Graham Mansfield, 73, from Hale in Greater Manchester, was given a suspended sentence of two years after being […]

Joe Biden tests positive for Covid and has ‘mild symptoms’, White House says

Read More Joe Biden tested positive for Covid on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation’s efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden was experiencing “mild symptoms” and has begun taking Paxlovid, […]

Biden Administration Reorganizes HHS to Improve Pandemic Response

The Biden administration is reorganizing the federal health department to create an independent division that will focus on responding to health emergencies.

Covid Italia, bollettino del 21 luglio: 80.653 nuovi casi e 157 morti

Read More Si conferma in calo la curva epidemica in Italia. Oggi sono 80.653 i nuovi casi Covid contro gli 86.067 di ieri ma soprattutto contro i 107.122 di giovedì scorso. I tamponi effettuati sono 366.000 (ieri 380.121) con un tasso di positività che scende dal 22,6% al 22%. I decessi delle ultime 24 ore […]

Lascia la figlia di un anno e mezzo da sola per sei giorni in casa e la trova morta: 37enne fermata con l’accusa di omicidio volontario

Read More Ha lasciato per sei giorni la sua bambina di un anno e mezzo da sola a casa a Milano e quando è tornata, ieri mattina, l’ha trovata morta. La donna, 37 anni, è stata fermata con l’accusa di omicidio volontario aggravato dai futili motivi e premeditazione. La piccola era in un lettino da […]

Volvo prices new SA-bound XC40 P6 Recharge

Read More Swedish carmaker Volvo is strongly pushing toward electrification and expects half of its sales to be fully electric by 2025. If you remember, the marque promised to electrify a derivative of every new model launched from 2019 onwards to embrace cleaner mobility, hence the birth of the XC40 P8 Recharge, XC60 Recharge and […]

The world of rugby doesn’t like the Boks – and that needs to change

Read More South Africans love the Springboks, but let’s face it, nobody else does. Out there, from Buenos Aires to Dublin to Brisbane, people see the Boks as brutal, boring and boorish. To some extent, this is only to be expected – as a rule in sport, supporters exaggerate the sins of their team’s rivals, […]

ANC KwaZulu-Natal conference skating on thin ice

Read More It’s about 24 hours until the long-awaited and repeatedly postponed ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial conference finally kicks off Thursday. It’s about 24 hours until the long-awaited and repeatedly postponed ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial conference finally kicks off — disaffected branches, marginalised regions and panicked chairperson candidates permitting. The conference, like many others that have […]

Reserve Bank greenlights sharpest repo rate hike in almost two decades

Read More The South African Reserve Bank has increased the repo rate by 75 basis points, the steepest hike in almost two decades, as elevated inflation and policy tightening abroad bear down on the rand. While three members of the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted for the 75 basis point hike — bringing […]