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A court in Osaka has issued a landmark ruling in favor of victims of a program abolished in 1996 On Tuesday, the Osaka High Court ordered Japan’s central government to pay compensation to three people who underwent forced sterilization as part of a now-defunct eugenics program. The plaintiffs – a hearing-impaired couple in their 70s […]
Danish study says it’s possible to catch the Omicron BA.2 subvariant after the “original” BA.1, but it’s uncommon Getting infected with a subvariant of Omicron after having had the original Omicron variant is rare, according to researchers in Denmark who published their results on Tuesday. The study has yet to be peer reviewed. The study, […]
Parliament’s spending watchdog condemned “unacceptable” financial losses due to scams and errors At least £15 billion ($20.39 billion) of taxpayers’ money has been lost through fraud and error in the government’s Covid emergency loan schemes, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) claimed in a report published on Wednesday. Condemning the situation as “unacceptable,” the committee claimed […]
Pregnancy-related deaths for US mothers rose in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, with black women far more affected Data released by the US National Center for Health Statistics on Wednesday show a rise in pregnancy-related deaths for mothers across America in 2020, a growing trend that disproportionately affects non-white women. There were 861 […]
The indigenously developed long-range surface-to-air missile is reportedly designed to be part of a “layered defense network” Seoul tested a new missile defense system it has developed, capable of intercepting a range of airborne weapons, on Wednesday, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported. The outlet stated that the long-range surface-to-air missile (L-SAM) was successfully […]
What passes for expertise on Russia in the US today is corrupted by partisan politics, which distorts fact-based analysis The US used to produce experts on Soviet and Russian affairs like Jack Matlock. Today we get the likes of Michael McFaul. The decline of popular interest in Russian-area studies, combined with intellectual laziness on the […]
George Eustice said that global warming will create more demand for food from temperate regions of the world Climate change could actually deliver a boost for British foods, UK Environment Secretary George Eustice told farmers on Tuesday, suggesting that global warming will make farming increasingly difficult in other parts of the world. “Climate change is […]
Josep Borrell’s vow that government employees and MPs won’t be able to buy luxury goods in Europe failed to land Russians who undermine Ukrainian sovereignty won’t be able to shop in Milan, party in Saint-Tropez or purchase diamonds in Antwerp, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell tweeted on Tuesday. The post was deleted hours […]
The Prime Minister is being required to complete a police questionnaire as part of an investigation into alleged breaches of lockdown rules Boris Johnson has become the first UK Prime Minister to be questioned under police caution, according to a leaked version of Scotland Yard’s Partygate questionnaire reported by ITV on Tuesday. As part of […]
The lawyer for a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexual assault said it would take too long to depose the former president Roberta Kaplan, the attorney for a woman who has accused former President Donald Trump of raping her, said on Tuesday that they did not want to depose the businessman-cum-politician, but would […]
Blind submission to authority has to stop, now that we are coming to the end of the pandemic I’ll never forget the most valuable lesson I learned during my first year at university, taught to me by a literature professor who had fled the USSR: All totalitarian regimes throughout history have shared one key trait […]
Brussels claims certain foods and drinks contribute to cancer, and, hence, shouldn’t be promoted Hungary is finding the European Commission’s anti-cancer plan hard to stomach, as it seeks to prohibit the promotion of red meat and wine, among other measures to reduce risk of the disease. Speaking to the media in the Belgian capital on […]
The company plans to accommodate 20,000 more refugees for free after hitting its previous goal Airbnb announced on Tuesday that it plans to accommodate 20,000 refugees after hitting its previous goal of finding places for 21,300 asylum seekers from Afghanistan. Airbnb hosts, who use the site to rent out rooms or entire homes to travelers, […]
The aircraft was operated by a contractor and was acting in support of a US Navy training mission Four people were killed in a helicopter crash near a US military missile range on an island in Hawaii, the navy said, noting that the contractor’s craft was part of a training operation in the area. The […]
First-term senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) has released a plan for the GOP to take control of the US House and Senate American senator Rick Scott (R-Florida) released a new Republican Party agenda on Tuesday, in light of the GOP not releasing any such plan for winning control of Congress in the fall. Scott’s plan, released […]