(CNN) – Across Europe, beaches are preparing for their first socially estranged foreign visitors, hotels are ventilating rooms, and restaurants are setting outdoor tables. Now that the borders are open, the travel industry is trying to save as much of the high tourism season as possible. Right now, almost everyone is invited, but despite the attractive prospect of the blue …
Read More »Coronavirus India – Delhi Corona app has many people asking, less real users: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain
The application aims to provide updated information on the availability of beds and fans. New Delhi: The recent Delhi government launch of “Corona App”, intended to help users learn about the status of total hospital beds and ventilators, had an impact that the government did not expect. Users, health minister Satyendra Jain said, were making “windows” for hospitals and asymptomatic …
Read More »Mary Pat Gleason, ‘Mom’ actress, dies at 70
She was 70 years old. “For those of you who didn’t know, Mary Pat had been waging the most heroic battle against cancer after being in remission for quite some time. She continued to work on shows like ‘Blacklist’ and ‘Mom’ even despite the pain. I visited Providence Saint Joseph’s shortly before this pandemic and, while struggling with tears during …
Read More »Akiem Hicks shades Bears for not signing Colin Kaepernick
Akiem Hicks believes the Bears’ elections speak for themselves. While speaking on Wednesday about ongoing racial tension across the country, the veteran defensive tackle spoke about the teams, including his, who declined to sign Colin Kaepernick, who has yet to find a QB concert after protesting racial injustice kneeling during the national anthem in 2016. “We signed Mike Glennon,” Hicks …
Read More »Hong Kongers defies police ban to remember Tiananmen Square
Held every year since the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in China, the rally had been banned for fear of coronaviruses, a move many considered political in a city where infections are reduced to a handful per month. However, early Thursday night hundreds and then thousands of people defied the order, as well as the signs and fences around Victoria …
Read More »Austrian architects to transform Hitler’s birthplace into a police station
Written by Oscar Holland, CNN Austria has come up with plans to transform Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station, after years of debate and legal disputes on the controversial site. The three-story building at Braunau am Inn near the German border will undergo a substantial renovation that authorities hope will prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site for Nazi …
Read More »Simon Property sues Gap for not paying rent during coronavirus crisis
The nation’s largest mall operator is suing its largest tenant for not paying rent during the pandemic in what could be the start of a stream of litigation over rent payments. Simon Property is suing the owner of Banana Republic, Old Navy and The Gap for $ 66 million in back rent and other charges related to their 412 stores …
Read More »Dwayne Johnson makes powerful claim for leadership
The actor stated in a video post on his social media channels that the United States is “crippled” and “kneeling asking to be heard and asking for change.” The video message that was released early Thursday has garnered more than 7 million views. Johnson continues asking: “Where is our compassionate leader who is going to step forward to our kneeling …
Read More »Rajeev Topno, private secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, moves to the World Bank
The Prime Minister’s private secretary, Rajeev Topno, was appointed Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank (FILE) New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Rajeev Topno, the prime minister’s private secretary, has been appointed senior adviser to the Executive Director (DE), World Bank, according to a personnel ministry order issued on Thursday. In addition to him, Brajendra Navnit, who served …
Read More »How Gene Michael saved a desperate Yankees franchise
A Joel Sherman series tells how the 1990 Yankees fiasco laid the foundation for a dynasty. George Steinbrenner was Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban, if they were one person. It was a force of nature. The people who worked for Steinbrenner will tell you that they can sense his presence even before he appears. And the room changed with his …
Read More »Tom Cotton Op-Ed: New York Times Employees Rebel Over Republican Senator’s Post
The opinion piece was published in the opinion section of The Times, but opinion and newsroom employees, who operate separately, publicly disagree. A parade of Times journalists tweeted a screenshot showing the headline of Cotton’s article, “Send the Troops,” with the accompanying words: “Executing this endangers Black @NYTimes staff.” New York Times magazine staff writers Jenna Wortham and Taffy Brodesser-Akner …
Read More »Putin declares emergency over large Arctic oil spill
An environmental group described the damage as “catastrophic,” and the concentration of pollutants in nearby waters has already exceeded allowable levels tens of thousands of times, according to Russia’s Rosprirodnadzor environmental agency. Originally, the plant’s employees tried to contain the spill on their own and did not report the incident to the emergency services for two days, the head of …
Read More »The brutal schedule should bring lower expectations
You ask, we answer. The Post is answering readers’ questions about New York’s biggest professional sports teams, and having our rhythm writers answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Jets. The second half of the Jets season went well, mainly because his schedule was so smooth. This year the schedule is brutal. However, with …
Read More »US workers file another 1.9 million jobless claims amid coronavirus
Nearly 1.9 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, as the coronavirus crisis left 42 million people out of work in less than three months, new data shows. The weekly figure reported by the United States Department of Labor continued its steady decline to drop below 2 million for the first time since mid-March. However, the latest seasonally adjusted …
Read More »Ben and Jerry’s statement about white supremacy is so extraordinary. This is why
In a forceful statement posted on the company’s website on Tuesday night, Ben & Jerry’s describes the George Floyd’s death, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as a result of “inhuman police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.” “What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad …
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