Tag: Crisis
Formula 1 – Bahrain Qualifying: Live timing and updates as Christian Horner sits at pit wall following crisis talks with FIA chief Mohammed Ben Sulayem with drivers vying for opening pole position of the season
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More States Are Using Doulas to Help Solve the Maternal Health Crisis
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February 22, 2024
Over a dozen states reimburse services provided by these nonmedical professionals before, during, and after birth under Medicaid. But with this coverage comes new regulations.
A mother holds her baby at their home in Houston, Tex. The mother and her husband planned to have a natural childbirth with the help of a doula.
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Asylum Seekers Didn’t Create the ‘Migrant Crisis’
When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.
“I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” Eric Adams urged in September. By the end of the year, more than 150,000 migrants had arrived. Still, the mayor’s apocalyptic prediction didn’t square with New York’s past experience. How could
Brits are flying to war-torn Ukraine for dental treatment due to NHS crisis – as Labour revives Margaret Thatcher-era Tory attack ad to claim ‘dentistry isn’t working’ with picture of snaking queue outside new surgery
Brits are flying to Ukraine for dental treatment because of the ever-worsening NHS crisis.
Industry leaders and MPs have warned that patients have been left with no option but to jet out to the war-torn nation after being unable to get help in the UK.
The crisis in NHS dentistry has been brewing for years, with some Brits even forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers.
Others have queued from 4am to gain a spot at dentistry practices
Does your car make people think you’re having a midlife crisis? The top 20 that drivers say do
One of the stereotypical tell-tale signs of a midlife crisis is the purchase of a sports car, especially a convertible.
But which models do people think are the ultimate giveaway that someone is trying to mask their real age with a flash car?
A new study set out to find the answer by asking 2,000 motorists.
The result is a list of the top 20 midlife crisis motors – and it’s bad news if you’re aged 40 to 60 and
The Refugee Crisis Isn’t Isolated to One Country
January 11, 2024
Displaced people are found worldwide in unprecedented numbers.
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Back in 1968, my father announced that, if Richard Nixon were elected president that November, he was going to move us
Ecuador ‘civil war’ crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with violence erupting on the streets
More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is descending into civil war amid a horrific escalation in gang violence.
Twisted videos circulating on social media showed how masked thugs delighted in subjecting prison staff to extreme violence, including being shot and hanging.
Terrified citizens meanwhile are resorting to taking up arms in an attempt to defend themselves, according to various reports on social media, as
POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO
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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration.
In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened
The Real Cause Of The Childhood ‘Mental Health Crisis’
Around a century ago, the Spanish Flu killed 700,000 people in this country. In terms of casualty count, that pandemic was deadlier than both World Wars, plus the wars in Vietnam and Korea, combined. The average life expectancy in this country dropped by 12 years virtually overnight. Many of the dead were young people.
And yet, as the pandemic subsided, according to historians who have extensively documented this whole episode, life returned to normal in just a couple of years.