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...A Palestinian health official said only al-Shifa’s emergency department had electricity after the hospital ran out of fuel to power generators....
...US social media giant Meta has been forced to apologise publicly to Qatari billionaire (and Janet Jackson’s former husband) Wissam al Mana and promise extra protection after his image was used in crypto...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
..., et cetera....
...Liberia is faring much better than its west African peers on inflation of 6.9 per cent but remains poor, with some of the worst social outcomes in the world, where many lack access to education and health...
...“What’s particularly alarming is that these are really life-long conditions,” says Dr Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the VA St Louis Health Care System and clinical epidemiologist at...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...There was a time towards the end of the last century, when the wine departments of Sainsbury’s, Tesco, et al strained every sinew to have the best range and to use wine as a lure to get customers into the...
...White excitedly shakes hands with Nour al-Harmoodi and Noura Kahil, who both work for Abu Dhabi’s department of culture and tourism. White immediately apologises for touching them....
...Kamala Harris’s Asia trip delayed by ‘anomalous health incident’ The vice-president’s departure from Singapore was delayed by what the state department said was “an anomalous health incident” in Vietnam,...
...It had been passed as a health and social care levy, which people broadly bought into at the time....
...“Our accommodation providers and subcontractors have made improvements to the site and continue to do so,” the department said....
...For Jada Brown, a Minneapolis protester who supported redirecting police department funding to social services, Chauvin’s conviction was “a first step. I don’t think it’s a victory.”...
...Weeks of stand-offs have persisted between Palestinians and Israeli riot police in the compound of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem....
...(FT) Video of the day Gillian Tett explains ESG’s importance Companies and investors are no longer able to ignore the impact of environmental and social governance issues....
...(FT) Silicon Valley should give every child a laptop This past year has exposed not only the cruelty of economic and social divides but also the vicious inequity of digital divides, writes Gillian Tett....
...We write in response to James E Hansen et al’s letter (“EU must include nuclear power in its list of sustainable sources”, December 17), which mistakenly advocates nuclear energy to address climate change...
...That is on top of 15m masks delivered in recent weeks, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. But many more are likely to be needed....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...(FT) Join us for ‘The New Social Contract Live’ — a week of online discussions bringing our recent FT series on this theme to life....
...produced by the US labor department....
...to the New York State Department of Financial Services....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...The US Department of Health and Human Services denied Bright’s allegations. Other scientists have taken note of Bright’s fate....
...The state public service department is studying investments in bulk transmission lines to better link upstate resources to New York City. Natural gas has a dim future under New York law....
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