Journalists at France’s leading Sunday newspaper announced Tuesday that they were ending one of the longest media strikes in recent French history, but they predicted that dozens might resign to protest the appointment of an editor with a far-right track record as the new editor in chief.
The staff of Le Journal du Dimanche, known for its interviews with government leaders and largely centrist policy analysis, said it had decided to call off a 40-day walkout after it became clear
Best American Roots Performance
Aaron Neville & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Stompin’ Ground – WINNER
Aoife O’Donovan & Allison Russell – Prodigal Daughter
Bill Anderson Featuring Dolly Parton – Someday It’ll All Make Sense (Bluegrass Version)
Fantastic Negrito – Oh Betty
Madison Cunningham – Life According to Raechel
Best Americana Performance
Asleep at the Wheel Featuring Lyle Lovett – There You Go Again
Blind Boys of Alabama Featuring Black Violin – The Message
Bonnie Raitt – Made Up
Compulsory Covid isolation should be considered by ministers to ease the burden on the struggling NHS, a Labour MP claimed today.
Rachel Maskell, who serves on the Health Select Committee, said ‘we need’ people to isolate if they’re infected.
She added that the point of testing — one of the pandemic-era policies axed when No10 chose to press ahead with its living with Covid strategy — was to ensure life ‘doesn’t continue as normal’ for those who are positive.
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Ben Salentine, the associate director of health-sciences managed care at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, hasn’t been weighed in more than a decade. His doctors “just kind of guess” his weight, he says, because they don’t have a wheelchair-accessible scale.
He’s far from alone. Many people with disabilities describe challenges in finding physicians prepared to care for them. “You would assume that medical spaces would be the most
More than 9,000 people in Leh, India, planted more than 50,000 tree saplings in under an hour on October 10, 2010.
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It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the fastest. On March 8, 2012, teams of village volunteers in Camarines Sur province on the Filipino island of Luzon sunk over a million mangrove
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Two summers ago, Hurricane Laura wrecked Betty Swope’s modest bungalow at the edge of Lake Charles, a city surrounded by oil refineries in southwest Louisiana. The Federal Emergency Management Agency helped at first, paying for Ms. Swope and her son Adrian to stay in hotels, then putting a trailer in their yard and providing about $7,000 toward fixing their house.
But that covered a fraction of what repairs would cost Ms. Swope, who is 74 and,
Constructed four generations ago, the massive rock and clay dam at El Capitan Reservoir is capable of storing over 36 billion gallons of water, enough to supply every resident in San Diego for most of a year.
Today, it’s three-quarters empty, intentionally kept low because of concerns it could fail under the strain of too much water.
During “a big earthquake, you never know what’s going to happen, if this is going to hold,” said Samuel Santos, a longtime resident
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Am 23. Januar brachen venezolanische Feuerwehrleute in das Haus von Pedro Salinas ein, einem renommierten Ingenieurprofessor in der nordwestlichen Stadt Mérida. Abgemagert und zerzaust wurde der 83-jährige Rentner in einem Zustand schwerer Unterernährung auf seinem Wohnzimmerboden liegend gefunden. Neben ihm lag der Leichnam seiner Frau Isbelia Hernández, die an einem Herzinfarkt starb. Seit Wochen war den Nachbarn aufgefallen, dass Hernández, der Jüngere der beiden, von Sorgen belagert wirkte. Sie erzählte einem von ihnen, dass es dem Paar immer schwerer falle,
