Medics in Covid hotspots of South Tyneside and Sunderland are asked to cancel holidays and offered £250 bonuses to fight ‘extreme pressure’ from third wave South Tyneside and Sunderland is seeing hospital cases doubling each week  Bosses said there were 80 Covid patients receiving hospital treatment  It asked for staff to work additional shifts with a £250 bonus for overtime […]

MOSCOW — Authorities in the Russian capital on Friday canceled their order for restaurants to only admit customers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, recovered from the coronavirus or can produce a negative test. The softening of restrictions reflects their devastating impact on restaurant owners, who pleaded with city officials to rescind them. The decision comes even as the capital […]

SCHULD/ERFTSTADT, Germany (Reuters) – More than 1,000 people were missing and more homes were destroyed in flood-stricken regions of western Germany and Belgium on Friday where waters were still rising and the death toll was already at about 117.A street is flooded following heavy rainfalls in Erftstadt, Germany, July 16, 2021. REUTERS/Thilo SchmuelgenEntire communities lay in ruins after swollen rivers […]

THE SURGE in Delta Covid cases has shown signs of slowing down. Some 36,000 extra cases have been detected in the past week – up by 17 per cent. Last week, a 34 per cent increase was recorded by Public Health England. It suggests the rate of growth is slowing down. But it comes ahead of “Freedom Day” on Monday, […]

Angela Merkel discusses the delivery of vaccine doses to Ukraine We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The leaders met and discussed a number of items, including […]

A JURY has found the gunman who killed five people at a Maryland newspaper criminally responsible, rejecting arguments by the defense that their client was mentally ill. The jury of eight men and four women found that Jarrod Ramos could understand the criminality of his actions and conform his conduct to the requirements of law when he attacked the Capital […]

I spent the weekend reading a book I wasn’t entirely comfortable being seen with in public. Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline is only slightly inaptly named. You won’t find, anywhere inside, instructions on sabotaging energy infrastructure. A truer title would be Why to Blow Up a Pipeline. On this, Malm’s case is straightforward: Because nothing else has […]

Trucks, utes and even dogs will descend on city centres around the country today, as farmers take part in a huge protest. The Howl of a Protest event, organised by Groundswell New Zealand, will see thousands of farm vehicles rumbling through cities in protest against what farmers say is increasing interference from the Government, unworkable regulations and unjustified costs. The […]

More than 60 people have died and dozens were missing Thursday (local time) in Germany and Belgium as heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away cars and caused houses to collapse. Recent storms across parts of western Europe made rivers and reservoirs burst their banks, triggering flash floods overnight after the saturated soil couldn’t absorb […]