$1bn to boost African women’s economic status
Read More The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The United States’ vice-president, Kamala Harris, announced a more than $1 billion initiative to improve women’s economic empowerment in Africa on Wednesday at the end of the first leg of a three-nation trip to the continent. Harris’s office revealed the programme, a […]
Should you be worried about asymptomatic TB?
Read More More than half of people in South Africa with tuberculosis may not know it, because they don’t have symptoms such as coughing and weight loss. (Getty Images) The idea of what a tuberculosis (TB) patient looks like probably needs an update, says Emily Wong, an infectious diseases researcher at the Africa Health Research […]
Heineken’s brewery in Ethiopia leaves farmers without land
Read More Land grab: Heineken’s Killinto brewery is on land from which farmers were evicted in 2013. Several million hectares have, since 2008, been rented to investors, regardless of who lives there. On a sunny day in February 2013, the Dutch minister of foreign trade and development co-operation, Lilianne Ploumen, laid the first stone for […]
Russian police arrest woman over bombing that killed pro-war blogger
Read More Russian police have arrested a woman suspected of delivering a bomb that killed a prominent pro-war Russian military blogger in a blast in a cafe in central St Petersburg on Sunday. Russian authorities say Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin, was killed by a bomb blast as he was hosting a […]
Swedish police moving ahead with plan to deport UK woman with Alzheimer’s
Read More The Swedish police are pressing ahead with plans to deport an elderly British woman with Alzheimer’s who cannot walk or talk, in a Brexit-related case that has been described as “deeply shocking” by the Labour MP Hilary Benn. Kathleen Poole, a 74-year-old widow, moved to Sweden from Macclesfield 18 years ago to be […]
Backlog in NHS genome service leaves families facing long wait for results
Read More Families of children with rare genetic disorders are being made to wait more than a year for genome sequencing results under a flagship NHS programme, the Guardian has learned. Senior doctors said worsening backlogs in the Genomics Medicines Service risked children not accessing treatments or support designed to give them the best outcomes. […]
Schools in England brace for more strikes as NEU rejects pay offer
Read More Parents in England face another wave of strikes and school closures after teachers belonging to the National Education Union decisively rejected the government’s pay offer. NEU members voted by 98% not to accept the offer of a ?1,000 one-off payment and a 4.3% pay rise for most teachers from September, triggering two further […]
Starmer says majority of sexual abuse cases do not involve ethnic minorities after Sunak’s ‘political correctness’ claim – UK politics live
Read More From 3h ago Keir Starmer is starting his LBC phone-in. He is broadcasting from Hartlepool. Nick Ferrari, the presenter, starts by asking about the Rishi Sunak announcement about grooming gangs. Starmer says, on child exploitation, we should do anything possible. He says, as DPP, he gave the green light to prosecute the Rochdale […]
McDonald’s to Close Offices Briefly Ahead of Layoffs
A report says McDonald’s has closed its U.S. offices for a few days as the company prepares to inform employees about layoffs.
Biden nominee wants to hijack little-known agency to ram through climate agenda
President Biden’s nominee to lead a little-known Department of Transportation safety subagency privately boasted that she would use her position at the agency to push aggressive climate policies. Ann Carlson — an environmental law expert who Biden nominated in February to be National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) administrator — boasted in 2021 that she […]
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