The Dutch cabinet has been advised by the Health Council, a scientific advisory body, to pause its use of the jab in those under the age of 60 in light of the safety concerns, broadcaster NOS reported on Thursday. The Netherlands’ health minister, Hugo de Jonge, has also said that …
Read More »Wall Street banks ditch $19 billion of stocks in ‘unprecedented’ block trade selloff – media
Goldman Sachs alone liquidated $10.5 billion worth of stocks in block trades on Friday, Bloomberg reported citing the investment bank’s email to clients. The first batch, that included $6.6 billion worth of shares of Baidu, Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Vipshop Holdings, was sold before the market opened on Friday. …
Read More »Nearly HALF of Republicans would ditch their party for Trump and only 27% would remain GOP-loyal, poll finds
Only 27 percent of Republicans would remain loyal to their party if Trump were to start his own, according to the Suffolk University/USA Today poll, released Sunday. Almost half –46 percent– would follow the former president, while the remainder indicated they would be undecided between the two. Trump starting his …
Read More »Musk’s wealth keeps soaring, but he wants to ditch worldly possessions to colonize Mars
Thanks to skyrocketing Tesla shares, Musk’s net worth surpassed $200 billion dollars for the first time, and now stands at $209 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Since Thursday, he has extended his lead over the previous leader of the rich list, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who now trails Musk …
Read More »It’s time for BoJo to ditch his exhausted deadweight lieutenants as UK’s battle against Covid takes its toll
Fighting the coronavirus pandemic risks overwhelming British PM Boris Johnson, but a quick fix to his in-tray of mounting problems would be to ditch the clapped-out, leg-weary hacks surrounding him and bring back former advisor Dominic Cummings. Today. At least Barnard Castle’s most famous visitor knows a thing or two …
Read More »WikiLeaks & Pamela Anderson make last ditch pardon pleas ahead of judge’s ruling on Assange extradition to US
The WikiLeaks co-founder is set to appear at England’s Central Criminal Court on Monday, where District Judge Vanessa Baraitser will deliver her judgment on whether he should be extradited to the US to face charges of violating the 1917 Espionage Act. If convicted in the US, the 49-year-old could be …
Read More »In last-ditch attempt UK and EU agree post-Brexit trade deal after 11 months of deadlock
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, and EU Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier announced that a deal has finally been agreed between Brussels and London. The two parties have been negotiating since January 31, after the UK officially left the EU and entered the transition period. “We have finally found …
Read More »‘The opposition does not have a leader’: Ditch ‘exhausted’ Guaido charade, Venezuelan opposition figure pleads with US
The projected US presidential election winner Joe Biden’s administration “must understand” that the efforts to prop up Guaido despite declining support even among the Venezuelan opposition are “exhausted,” and that it “cannot give continuity to the status quo,” Capriles told the BBC during a Wednesday interview. He called for Washington …
Read More »Stop smoking, ditch the pyjamas, stay at your desk: how ‘bossware’ technology is secretly monitoring you working at home
Lockdown and its aftermath has led more and more employees to work from home. Many big firms have already said they won’t even attempt to get back staff back to the office until next year, at the earliest, amid discussions about how working from home could become the new normal …
Read More »Russian car flew into a ditch, the Decline exceeded 50%
Sales of new passenger cars and LCVs (light commercial vehicles) in Russia in may 2020 declined by 51.8% compared with the figure for the same period last year and amounted to 63 033 units, said the Association of European businesses (AEB). In January – may, sales fell by 25.7% yoy …
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