Author: James Martin
Placeholder while article actions loadColombia has just become the latest nation in Latin America to break with its political past. Frustrated by decades of unresolved inequality and discontent, voters put not one but two anti-establishment candidates in Sunday’s second round — and then backed Gustavo Petro, guerrilla turned senator, to become the country’s first leftist leader. His running mate, environmental activist Francia Marquez, will become the first Black vice president, putting race, class and rural poverty on the agenda in a country that has long preferred to focus elsewhere.The trouble is that it’s one thing for opposition candidates to draw disgruntled Colombians to the ballot box — and turnout was…
PMQsPMQs is starting soon.Here is the list of MPs down to ask a question.PMQs Photograph: HoCBill of rights bill ‘lurch backwards for British justice’, says Law SocietyThe bill of rights bill being published today shows represents “a lurch backwards for British justice”, according to the Law Society, which represents solicitors. In a statement its president, I. Stephanie Boyce, said:The erosion of accountability trumpeted by the justice secretary signals a deepening of the government’s disregard for the checks and balances that underpin the rule of law. The bill will create an acceptable class of human rights abuses in the United Kingdom…
A major supplier of Covid-19 rapid antigen tests to Coles and Woolworths has been fined $106,560 for allegedly failing to keep Australia’s drug regulator informed about the safety and performance of the tests.Hough Pharma Pty Ltd was issued multiple infringement notices by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) on Thursday for what the agency described as “serial non-compliance” with regulatory requirements.All manufactures of therapeutic goods, including tests, drugs and medical devices approved for use in Australia, must continually provide safety and performance data to the TGA as requested.This information is especially important for newer drugs and devices approved in response to…
Located in the mountains outside Tucson, Arizona, the Kitt Peak National Observatory was threatened last week by the ongoing Contreras Fire. While the blaze has affected more than 20,000 acres and disrupted work at the facility, the major scientific equipment seems to be thus far unscathed. The scientific community feared the worst, but over the weekend, the National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab), the organization that operates the site, had good news to share. “All physical scientific observatory structures are still standing,” NOIRLab said in a spotted by . However, in a , the organization said the…
That England batting line-up still looks alright doesn’t it? And that’s before you’ve brought in Bairstow, Root and Stokes. I said this on Sunday, but Rashid aside I’ve still little clue which bowlers constitute the first-choice attack – I guess Archer is a lock when fit, but otherwise. Our teams!Netherlands: 1 Vikramjit Singh, 2 Max O’Dowd, 3 Tom Cooper, 4 Bas de Leede, 5 Scott Edwards (capt/wk), 6 Teja Nidamanuru, 7 Logan van Beek, 8 Tim Pringle, 9 Aryan Dutt, 10 Paul van Meekeren, 11 Fred Klaassen.England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Phil Salt, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jos Buttler (capt/wk),…
The giant stingray was captured, electronically tagged and released in Cambodia’s Mekong river, according to Reuters. Source link
Granting Ukraine candidate status to join the EU would be a historic decision signalling to Russia it can no longer claim a sphere of influence over its eastern neighbour, Kyiv’s ambassador to Brussels has said.Vsevolod Chentsov, the head of Ukraine’s mission to the EU, said Russia’s war had united Kyiv with the bloc, while ending what he called a “mistake” about whether his country could belong to the union.Speaking to the Guardian ahead of a historicallycharged EU summit on Thursday, he said for many years Ukraine had been seen as a bridge or a buffer state rather than a potential…
“She has added her own personal touch to the tiara by adding a new row of diamonds to the band of the tiara, along the hairline.”It is so special to Sophie that she has reworn it on numerous occasions after her wedding day, including at several European royal weddings.”Sophie and Edward are known to be a royal wedding success story, as Prince Edward remains the only one out of the Queen’s four children not to have divorced their first spouses.The couple share two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, and on June 19, 2022, they celebrated their 23rd…
In a post looking back over the past 10 years since it purchased robotics company Kiva, Amazon has revealed its new machines, including its first fully autonomous warehouse robot. It’s called Proteus, and it was designed to be able to move around Amazon’s facilities on its own while carrying carts fulls of packages. The company said the robot uses an “advanced safety, perception and navigation technology” it developed to be able to do its work without hindering human employees. In the video Amazon posted, you can see Proteus moving under the carts and transporting them to other locations. It emits…
Takumi Minamino is poised to leave Liverpool for Monaco after the clubs agreed a fee of €15m (£12.9m) plus add-ons for the Japan forward.Minamino has been offered a five-year deal and provided he settles the final details and passes a medical his Liverpool stay will end after two and a half years.The 27-year-old, signed from Red Bull Salzburg for £7.25m, has been unable to hold down a place and spent four months of the 2020-21 season on loan at Southampton. Minamino has played 55 times for Liverpool and scored 14 goals.His departure would continue a summer of change in Jürgen…