Recovering elective and cancer care performance to the standards required will be a huge and lengthy challenge for the NHS, and there is a real risk that the waiting list for patients seeking elective care will be longer in 2025 than it is today, according to analysis from the NationalContinue Reading
Sixty-eight doctors at the Regional University Hospital of Málaga have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the Regional Government of Andalusia. Health officials said they were investigating the source of the infection and found the 68 people attended the Christmas party on December 1, which included 173. The victims showedContinue Reading
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) recently introduced a joint resolution of disapproval to block proposed U.S. arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Paul was joined by U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) in introducing the resolution. The sale includes 280 air-to-air missiles and 596Continue Reading
On November 24, 2021, South Africa reported the identification of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.529, to the World Health Organization (WHO). B.1.1.529 was first detected in specimens collected on November 11, 2021 in Botswana and on November 14, 2021 in South Africa. South Africa has since detected B.1.1.529 in specimensContinue Reading
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced that American embassy workers who have been stationed in Moscow for over three years have been given just weeks to leave the country, a response to the Biden administration’s halt of processing visas in Moscow, and Russians are obliged to travel to the US embassy inContinue Reading
The Philippines Department of Agriculture (DA) reported a total of 234 hogs from 44 swine raisers in two towns in Lanao del Norte province in Northern Mindanao have tested positive for African swine fever (ASF) and have been culled. The hogs were from farms in Barangay Sta. Cruz in MaigoContinue Reading
Northwest of Guayaquil, Ecuador, clashes amongst inmates at Litoral Penitentiary have resulted in 68 deaths and 25 injured since Friday, according to local media. The fighting lasted for almost eight hours with authorities blaming prison gangs linked to international drug cartels. In this pavilion, according to police sources, the “Chonekillers” haveContinue Reading
Antarctica sets a record cold six month period as the Neumayer station sets new winter record low, sees rapid cooling since 2000 — the coldest since temperature measurements began some 60 years ago. The Amundsen Scott station at the South Pole recorded a mean temperature of -60.9°C for the AprilContinue Reading
A military court in Myanmar has sentenced American journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison, Fenster, 37, from Detroit, Michigan, was detained on May 24, denied bail and held in the Insein Prison in Yangon. His lawyer, Than Zaw Aung said Fenster was found guilty of three charges brought against himContinue Reading
The Philippines has seen continuous improvement in global ranking with the steady decline in the number of local coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, the health chief said Tuesday. Reporting to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said the Philippines now ranks 53rd in the world in termsContinue Reading
North Korea continues it’s battle with persistent food shortages and are now asking the citizens to tighten their belts until 2025, the year they plan on opening their borders with China, which was closed last year due to the pandemic. “The food situation right now is already clearly an emergency,Continue Reading
North Korea continues it’s battle with persistent food shortages and are now asking the citizens to tighten their belts until 2025, the year they plan on opening their borders with China, which was closed last year due to the pandemic. “The food situation right now is already clearly an emergency, andContinue Reading
In response to the Nipah virus case in Kerala state, India, which resulted in the death of a 12-year-old boy earlier this month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India to send a letter to Smt J Chinchurani, Kerala’s minister for animal husbandry and dairy development, urging herContinue Reading
Flights of Afghan refugees to the US were paused Friday after four cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who had recently arrived in the country. The White House said the halt was recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the four measles cases were diagnosed. NEWS TALKContinue Reading
A woman from the city of Kollum in Kerala state, India was gang-raped after traveling 300 kilometers to visit a man she’s been communicating online with for some two years. The 28-year-old woman traveled to the coastal city of Kozhikode to meet the man, only to get drugged by theContinue Reading
As the COVID lockdown continues in Australia, South Australia is using a new cell app with facial recognition and geolocation to enforce home quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic. Officials claim they are using a government-developed app to enforce home quarantine compliance for a small cohort of returning interstate travelers. UsersContinue Reading
With the pretext of “Global warming sceptics should be hiding in corners. But still some defend the indefensible,” Nick Cohen’s new post is titled “Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade.” Cohen begins that “None seems as defeated as the global warming ‘deniers’ whoContinue Reading
The Taliban came under fire Wednesday after the announced interim Afghanistan government was neither “inclusive” nor “representative” of the country’s ethnic and religious diversity. “It does not look like the inclusive and representative formation of Afghanistan’s rich ethnic and religious diversity that we had hoped to see and that theContinue Reading
Sydney-born inventor Saul Griffith explained how Australia can rapidly solve climate change, get to zero emissions during an interview with ABC. The price tag: $1 trillion. His message is simple: “electrify everything”. “If I had to choose the country for whom electrifying everything is the best economic win in the shortestContinue Reading
Australian government has passed a sweeping surveillance bill, accused of adding provisions which “allows the police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts; without sufficient safeguards to prevent abuse of these new powers.” NEWS TALK SHOW TOPIC – VIDEO BELOW The Surveillance LegislationContinue Reading
In a bizarre and tragic story out of Mumbai, India, police investigated the pregnancy of a 16-year-old girl who was hospitalized. The girl was five months pregnant. Upon questioning, police were told by the child that she had become addicted to watching pornographic movies on her phone and she wouldContinue Reading
