Giorno: 18 Maggio 2023

NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Leak Controversy

Read More The National Institute of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments on taxpayer dollars. The name Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was still on the list as recently as April 23, was absent from […]

Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% in next 17 years

Read More Plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% in next 17 years. Photo: Laura Lezza/Getty Images This can be done by 2040 if there are changes in the market, a United Nations report has found This article is only available to subscribers. View subscription options If you are already a subscriber, login here.

Ramaphosa’s South Africa and Turkey’s Erdogan find themselves in a dangerous place. Our currencies tell the story

Read More President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) speaks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (R) during a special session entitled ‘Fair And Sustainable Future’ as part of G20 Leaders Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina Some years back, I had the sad, sorry and very often interesting job of being a markets editor, a […]

G4S has a problematic history across Africa

Read More Thabo Bester at Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. (Frikkie Kapp/Gallo Images via Getty Images) In May 2022, Thabo Bester, a convicted rapist and murderer, escaped from a privately run prison in Bloemfontein by setting a corpse alight and faking his death.  The audacious jailbreak was exposed nearly a year later and became a Netflix-level drama […]

Police identify 19 suspects in Gosport hospital opioid deaths inquiry

Read More Police investigating the deaths of hundreds of patients at a community hospital say they have identified 19 suspects. An independent police investigation was launched into Gosport War Memorial hospital, in Hampshire, after inquiries found that hundreds of patients had their lives shortened through the use of opioids. The Kent and Essex Serious Crime […]

Half of children given ‘skinny jab’ no longer clinically obese, study finds

Read More Nearly half of children who were assigned the “skinny jab” lost enough weight to no longer be classed as clinically obese, according to research. The study, led by Dr Aaron Kelly, the co-director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota, looked at 201 adolescents who were classed as […]

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv officials decry ‘unprecedented’ recent missile strikes; one killed in Odesa attack

Read More A person has been killed in Russian missile strikes on Odesa, the military administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk has said on Telegram. Two people were injured. “Most of the enemy’s missiles were shot down over the sea by the Air Defense Forces. Unfortunately, an industrial object was hit: 1 person died, two were injured,” […]

Pentagon leaks suspect was warned off viewing classified material – prosecutors

Read More Jack Teixeira, the US air national guard member charged with being behind the so-called Pentagon leaks of highly classified military documents, was warned repeatedly over his mishandling of classified material, according to a court filing. Justice department lawyers made the disclosure in court papers that urged Teixeira be kept behind bars while he […]

Rishi Sunak’s upbeat view on economy stokes claims he is out of touch

Read More Rishi Sunak has been accused of being out of touch with ordinary families after claiming the economy was looking up and people’s household incomes were “hugely outperforming” expectations despite the cost of living crisis. On a flight to Japan for the G7 summit of world leaders, the prime minister said that despite consumers […]

Former Google CEO says AI at ‘center’ of technology competition between US and China

A former Google CEO said during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) is at the “center” of the technology competition between the United States and China. Eric Schmidt, who was CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, made the comment during Wednesday’s House hearing focusing on strategic competition between the United States […]