Month: March 2021

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,
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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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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
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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
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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
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