Under the country’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan, New Zealand hopes to gradually increase the legal smoking age and ultimately prohibit cigarette sales to anyone born after 2004. The initiative also calls for a significant reduction in the level of nicotine allowed in tobacco and places restrictions on where cigarettes …
Read More »Covid trigger: Pandemic leading to more gun sales in US and more threats to shoot abuse victims, researchers find
The pandemic has also created “a perfect storm” for domestic and “gender-based” violence, according to researchers from universities in Texas and Kentucky, who have teamed up with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence to assess the effects of Covid over the past year. Nearly 40% of respondents to their survey …
Read More »Amazon sales for banned Dr. Seuss book soar over 5.7 MILLION percent after publisher halts printing over ‘hurtful’ stereotypes
A decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to scrap the six books on Tuesday over what it called “hurtful and wrong” stereotypes appears to have sparked a buying frenzy on the e-retail giant, with the defunct ‘McElligot’s Pool’ surging to the top spot on Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers” section. At the …
Read More »UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia prolonging war in Yemen, says Oxfam
“As the US has called for an end to the conflict in Yemen, the UK is heading in the opposite direction, ramping up its support for the brutal Saudi-led war by increasing arms sales and refuelling equipment that facilitate airstrikes,” Sam Nadel, head of policy and advocacy at Oxfam, said …
Read More »US freezes sales of missiles to Saudi Arabia and F-35s to UAE as it reviews Trump-era arms deals
The move affects precision-guided missiles sold to Saudi Arabia and F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among other deals not identified by the State Department. American arms manufacturers Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin both have contracts with the two Arab nations. “This is a routine administrative action …
Read More »The ruble broke the “bottom” for a month due to the sales of the public debt of Russia
The ruble resumed its decline on the Moscow stock exchange on Friday amid a sharp reduction of foreign currency supply and sales in the Russian market of public debt, for which the first week of July was the worst since March. At 15.22 GMT, the dollar rises in price by …
Read More »Communist party — the platform for sales mandates
“Deceit and violence, the country returned to capitalism. This is the path of social regression, leading to a national catastrophe, the destruction of the Russian, of Russian civilization. Today the Communist party is the only political organization that consistently defends the rights of people hired labor and the national-state interests. …
Read More »November’s sales of Lada cars in the EU fell sharply
Sales of Lada cars in the European Union (EU) declined in November 2019 20.3% yoy to 291 pieces, follows from the review of the European automobile manufacturers ‘ Association (ACEA). In the 11 months since the beginning of this year in the EU was implemented 4,52 thousand Lada, which is …
Read More »When Ukraine will start official sales of the Apple Watch, Nike+ Series 4
The company, ASBIS-Ukraine, the official importer of Apple technology, has announced the beginning of sales in Ukraine of smart hours Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4. A week later, may 31, 2019, the new line will go in a separate national retail network, writes the Chronicle.info with reference to itc.ua. Lineup, …
Read More »Sales of Minecraft have reached 176 million copies
In honor of the 10th anniversary released Minecraft browser Minecraft Classic, which is a very first version of the game sample in 2009. Minecraft is present on the market for 10 years — a period many may make you feel old. But recently, Microsoft announced the achievement of new milestones …
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