Giorno: 5 Dicembre 2022

Thousands on Alert in Indonesia’s Java After Mt. Semeru Eruption

Read More Volcanic ash from Candipuro district following the eruption of Mount Semeru volcano, in Lumajang, East Java Province, Indonesia, on Dec. 4, 2022. (Antara Foto/Samsul Arifin via Reuters) JAKARTA—Thousands of residents in Indonesia’s East Java were on high alert on Monday after a violent eruption at the island’s tallest volcano prompted authorities to impose […]

Phala Phala panel misread its mandate, Ramaphosa argues in court papers

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa has argued in papers filed to the constitutional court that the section 89 panel that recommended he face an impeachment inquiry strayed beyond its mandate. “It was also unfair to me because it raised matters to which I was never invited to respond,” he said in his application asking the […]

Congress gets pay hike, cost-of-living boost under bills from retiring Democrat

Post Content Members of Congress would get a hefty pay raise, a long-delayed cost-of-living adjustment and a new housing allowance under legislation proposed by Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., who is retiring at the end of the current Congress. Members of the House and Senate have not had a pay raise in more than a decade, […]

GOP squeezing lame duck Dems to secure end to military vaccine mandate

Post Content Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding that Democrats agree to remove the Defense Department’s vaccine mandate before passing the military’s latest budget appropriation. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, led the charge last week, announcing that he and a group of Republican Senators would refuse to vote for the Department’s annual budget appropriation until the […]

The One Health action plan balances the health of humans, animals, plants and ecosystems

Read More Four United Nations agencies recently launched the One Health Joint Plan of Action, which calls for collaboration in dealing with problems that threaten people’s health, wildlife and the natural environment. (Pedro Prado/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Four United Nations agencies recently launched the One Health Joint Plan of Action, which calls for collaboration in […]

Thames Water reports profits boom despite surge in burst pipes during drought

Read More Thames Water has reported a boom in first-half profits to almost ?500m, despite a surge in the number of burst pipes during the drought across the UK over the summer. The company, which instituted a hosepipe ban from August to September amid the summer heatwave, said the rise in leakage and supply interruptions […]

Afghans died because of Raab’s delay in reviewing documents, officials told

Read More A meeting of Ministry of Justice officials at which Dominic Raab‘s conduct was discussed was told “people had died” in the Afghanistan evacuation because of his refusal to review documents in formats which he did not like, the Guardian has been told. Raab, who was formerly foreign secretary but was recently reappointed as […]