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Protesters in France for a ninth consecutive weekend took to the streets to again rally against COVID-19 vaccine passports and mandates. The French Ministry of Interior said that 120,000 people partook in nationwide demonstrations, reported France24. Last week, about 140,000 demonstrated. Three police officers suffered minor injuries during clashes with protesters, the agency told France24. Video footage showed large numbers of protesters in Paris, Toulouse, and other cities. One video shows protesters clashing with officers in Toulouse. In early August, during one weekend, the number of demonstrators surpassed 230,000 across different French cities, the ministry said at the time. Those protests occurred shortly after the French…
The NATIONAL INSURANCE health and social care levy of 1.25 percent that working pensioners must pay from April 2023 will not count towards their State Pension entitlement. This will be a blow to those over 66 who have not made enough NI contributions to qualify for the maximum basic new State Pension. From April 2023, people who continue to work beyond State Pension age will pay Boris Johnson’s new health and social care levy. However, unlike National Insurance contributions paid on income earned before age 66, this will not count towards their basic new State Pension. Pensioners who make less…
When Emma Raducanu arrived at Flushing Meadows this year, she did not have the faintest idea of where to go. So unfamiliar was she with her surroundings, she needed help from her fellow players just to navigate the tournament’s vast grounds. Her growth over the past three weeks since those timid first steps has been astounding as she outplayed everyone put in front of her. And under the lights of the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night she went even further, producing yet another brilliant performance to reach her first grand slam final. Faced with a moment she has been dreaming of…
Pfizer has been accused of holding Brazil “to ransom” over demands to shield itself from possible vaccine side-effect lawsuits in its contract to supply the country with 100m Covid jabs. In its $1bn (£700m) deal with Pfizer Export BV, signed in March, despite its prior complaints, the Brazilian government agreed that “a liability waiver be signed for any possible side-effects of the vaccine, exempting Pfizer from any civil liability for serious side-effects arising from the use of the vaccine, indefinitely”. Indemnity from compensation claims has been common in contracts between many countries and big pharma companies since the late 1980s. The contract also stipulated…
The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Sept. 10 announced it plans to sue President Joe Biden’s administration over its COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate. It comes just one day after the president issued sweeping new federal vaccine requirements that could affect as many as 100 million Americans and which the administrations hopes will curb the surging delta variant. Taking to Twitter, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced, “Joe Biden told Americans when he was elected that he would not impose vaccine mandates. He lied. When his decree goes into effect, the RNC will sue the administration to protect Americans and their liberties.” McDaniel also shared a press…
More than a dozen governors and two attorneys general late Thursday issued statements defying the Biden administration’s impending vaccine mandates for federal workers and private-sector workers. President Joe Biden earlier in the day signed an executive order to require all federal workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. There would be no option to opt out via COVID-19 testing. The mandate also applies to government contractors and their employees. The president later announced he would direct the Department of Labor to create a rule to have companies with over 100 employees mandate vaccinations or weekly testing, a move that impacts…
The distraught family of a schoolgirl feared to have run off with an older man after allegedly being groomed online have accused police of bungling the search for her. Aaliyah Chen, 15, snuck out of a window of her family home in Sidcup, south London, on Sunday evening and has been missing since. She had given her mother a goodnight kiss on the cheek and went to her bedroom just before. She is believed to be with an older man, aged 24, who allegedly first groomed her last year via Snapchat and was issued with a child abduction warning notice…
The city of Tucson, Arizona, has paused a mandate that ordered employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine or face five days of suspension and other discipline. The state’s attorney general, Mark Brnovich, said on Sept. 7 that the mandate, imposed last month, is illegal because it violates an executive order by Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this year, in addition to a state law that is set to go into effect later this month. Brnovich warned Tucson officials that unless the mandate was rescinded, he would proceed with directing the state treasurer to withhold the city’s portion of state shared revenue until officials halted the…
Boris Johnson’s plan to increase national insurance contributions to raise £12bn for the NHS and social care could pose a “serious problem” for low-income workers, the archbishop of Canterbury has said. Justin Welby said privileging wealthy pensioners over the poorest young people was “not a people-centred policy”, as he stressed the need for “intergenerational equity”. His comments come after Tory MPs voted through a proposal to raise national insurance contributions (NICs) by 1.25 percentage points through a new ringfenced tax known as the “health and social care levy”. Under the plan, patients entering the social care system from October 2023 will not…
Gareth Southgate defended his decision not to make any substitutions after England conceded a last-minute equaliser in their World Cup qualifier against Poland on Wednesday night. England looked poised to take another big stride towards Qatar after going 1-0 up thanks to Harry Kane, but they still have work to do after a feisty evening in Warsaw ended in frustration. Poland were jubilant after Damian Szymanski maintained their qualification hopes with a stoppage‑time header and Southgate was left to face questions over his reluctance to freshen up his side by making changes during the dying stages. “We were in total…
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