The most likely origin for coronavirus was transmission from a bat to humans via an unidentified intermediate animal species, according to a long-awaited World Health Organisation (WHO) report due to be published today. The WHO team state that “it remains to be determined where SARS-CoV-2 originated”, according to a draft copy of the report seen
Month: March 2021
Sir Lenny Henry has written an open letter, signed by a number of household names, calling on Black people in the UK to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, actor Thandie Newton, radio host Trevor Nelson and author Malorie Blackman are among the signatories of the letter which asked people to “trust” the
In this article AMZN An Amazon-sponsored billboard urging employees to return their unionization ballots is seen on March 28, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama. Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images Amazon is playing an aggressive defense against its critics as it stares down a historic union vote at one of its warehouses in Alabama. In recent days,
The videos of the last minutes of George Floyd’s life are haunting and awful, one man’s very public death recorded for the world to see. But those same videos have now become the cornerstone of the criminal case against the man accused of Mr Floyd’s murder. Prosecutors seeking to have former police officer Derek Chauvin
To further protect the interest of domestic module manufacturing companies, the Indian government has imposed fresh import duties on solar cells and modules. The Minister of New and Renewable Energy recently announced the imposition of a basic customs duty on solar cells and modules. Solar cells imported into India will attract a 20% duty while
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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on tackling climate change prior to signing executive actions as White House climate envoy John Kerry and Vice President Kamala Harris listen in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters President Joe Biden this week is set to unveil details of
MPs have been urged to approve a new sanctions system that could see them barred from parliament’s bars and restaurants if they breach House of Commons rules. Proposals contained in a new report from the Commons’ Committee on Standards have been touted as a means to “give teeth to the standards system”. Building on their
12:25 PM ET World Cup qualifying kicked off across Europe last week and there was plenty of drama involving top national teams as they began on the road to Qatar in 2022. Portugal were furious for Saturday’s draw vs. Serbia, England picked up a couple of tidy victories and Germany showed their best — and
In this article TSLA Christopher Lee and his 2021 Tesla Model Y Christopher T. Lee Last week, after paying for brand new Tesla electric cars, Southern California residents Tom Slattery, Christopher T. Lee and Clark Peterson told CNBC they were gobsmacked to find the company had charged them twice, taking tens of thousands of dollars
The nuclear industry requires, but doesn’t pay much of the price of, several overlapping layers of security on its international and national supply chains, generation sites, and waste management. It’s spread across a hard to fathom number of budget lines, and there doesn’t appear to have been any attempt to consolidate the costs prior to
The prime minister has admitted “we don’t know… how strong our fortifications now are” against a fresh COVID wave – while the chief medical officer has warned of a “leaky wall” of vaccine defence. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference on Monday – as people in England saw lockdown restrictions eased slightly – Boris
Up to 60 million doses of COVID vaccine will be manufactured at Barnard Castle in the North East, Boris Johnson has announced. The prime minister revealed that the Novavax jab – which has yet to be approved – will undergo its “fill and finish” stage at a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) facility. Part of the vaccine is
Gangs in Manchester are increasingly using “horrendous” torture methods on kidnap victims involving blowtorches and waterboarding, a senior police officer has warned. Detective Sergeant Julie Connor from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) told Sky News that organised crime groups in the city see kidnaps as “a lucrative form of business”. Victims have been stabbed, waterboarded and
Liberty Steel UK says it is to restart production next week as its parent firm continues to seek new funding to fill the hole left by the collapse of Greensill Capital earlier this month. Sky News reported on Friday how GFG Alliance, owned by Sanjeev Gupta, had gone cap in hand to the government for
The stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal has been freed, allowing traffic in the channel to finally resume. Egyptian authorities said other vessels were moving again after the gigantic Ever Given ship was refloated, which was seen by witnesses for the Reuters news agency. The Ever Given has started heading towards the Bitter Lakes
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