A goal on 60 minutes from Federico Chiesa had looked like giving Italy a brilliant smash-and-grab win, but substitute Alvaro Morata emerged to equalize for Spain with 10 minutes of normal time remaining to send a pulsating game in London into extra time. The teams could not be separated, meaning …
Read More »Sydney extends Covid lockdown for another week after New South Wales detects 27 new cases of ‘game changer’ Delta variant
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian declared a week-long extension to Sydney’s stay-at-home order early on Wednesday, prolonging restrictions that were originally revived late last month. The new lockdown is now slated to expire no earlier than Friday, July 16. “The reason for this is as we’ve been saying, this …
Read More »Brazil’s lower house passes bill that would allow BREAKING of vaccine patents in case of ‘public health emergency’
On Tuesday, the Chamber of Deputies voted 425 to 15 in favor of PL 12/2021. Sponsored by Aécio Neves da Cunha, a Social Democrat from Minas Gerais, the bill would authorize Congress to issue patent-breaking licenses “in case of a public health emergency,” without the approval of the head of …
Read More »Let’s scrap university, they’re just teaching youngsters to be snowflakes. It’s time they learnt a trade instead
Instead of gender studies and ways to weaken the language to the point where it’s so soft it can never give offence, how about we teach young people how to lay bricks, hammer a nail, wield a chisel or plaster a wall? Imagine if an old-fashioned war broke out tomorrow …
Read More »Iran fuel pipeline explosion caused by gas leak kills 3, injures 4 – state news agency (PHOTO, VIDEO)
The blast, caused by a gas leak, occurred at around 4pm local time, Adnan Qazi, the governor of Shush County in the province of Khuzestan, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Pictures apparently taken at the scene showed major damage to a small building surrounded by debris, and a motorcycle …
Read More »Pentagon cancels $10bn ‘JEDI’ cloud-computing contract with Microsoft amid Amazon dispute over deal
The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract, part of the Pentagon’s modernization drive and worth up to $10 billion, was originally awarded to Microsoft two years ago. However, just a month later, the tech giant was hit by a lawsuit filed in the US Court of Federal Claims by …
Read More »It’s always an emergency in New York: Governor Cuomo calls GUNS ‘public health crisis’
In an executive order made public on Tuesday, Cuomo declared a “disaster emergency on gun violence” that will allow his office to dedicate attention and resources to the crisis. He also announced that he signed into law a bill, passed by the majority-Democrat state legislature, that would make it possible …
Read More »‘Won’t go back into the building’: Reporters who ‘SURVIVED’ Capitol riot mocked as Vice says they’re still struggling with trauma
In fact, Tuesday’s Vice article said, some of the reporters who “survived” the riot still won’t even go back into the Capitol to do their jobs, despite the fact they continue to cover Congress. “One longtime Capitol Hill reporter opted for early retirement shortly after living through the riot,” the …
Read More »Biden seeks to get more Americans vaccinated by taking message ‘door-to-door’ & mobilizing ‘Covid surge response teams’
“Now we need to go to community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood and, oftentimes, door to door – literally knocking on doors – to get help to the remaining people protected from the virus,” Biden told reporters on Tuesday, adding that coronavirus “surge response teams” would also be mobilized to …
Read More »Iran notifies UN nuclear watchdog of 20% enrichment of uranium metal for reactor fuel, IAEA says
The announcement comes as Iran and the other signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal are gearing up for another round of talks to revive the agreement, which is designed to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons – an aim it denies pursuing. This year Iran has already produced a small amount …
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