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Quarantine for UK arrivals 'would be devastating'

LONDON: A 14-day quarantine period for all travellers coming to Britain would have a devastating impact on both the UK aviation industry and wider economy, a trade body has warned. The Government will reportedly announce the mandatory quarantine as part of measures aimed at avoiding a second peak...




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Israeli girl revamps classic playing cards to represent gender equality


"All genders are equal, so why is the Queen worth less? And what about the Jack, where's the princess?"




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Defense Ministry to establish four intensive care units in Petah Tikva


The project is estimated at about NIS 30 million.




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Police brutality will only aggravate crisis

Militarising the operations creates bad blood. People become resistant and restive.




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Kenya’s strength coach Kimani urges peers to innovate in virus times

“This is the time for coaches, depending on their philosophy, to better the skills of their athletes.”




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Court allows Kanu to sell Naivasha land

Money from the sale of properties will be used to is to settle debts and run the party.




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Ledama ole Kina: valiant or tactless warrior?

For him, as long as the Maa community is happy, nothing else matters.




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Trump tops Nevada GOP presidential caucuses

Donald Trumps win in the Silver State gives him three straight victories in the race for the Republican nomination




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In DRC, armed groups dwindle but still aggravate troubled region

Repatriators working to bring Hutus back to Rwanda often find a blurry line between refugee and ex-combatant




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Poisonous lands: Pennsylvania prison built next to toxic dump

Prisoners and area residents are hit by toxic fumes that could cause fatal harm




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Nevada governor says he doesn't want Supreme Court consideration

Republican Brian Sandoval, reportedly under consideration by Obama for the nation's top court, says he's not interested




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Testing Capacity for Covid-19 Scaled up to 95,000 Per Day, Says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan - News18

  1. Testing Capacity for Covid-19 Scaled up to 95,000 Per Day, Says Union Minister Harsh Vardhan  News18
  2. Let`s work together by converting orange zones to green zones: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan tells NE...  Zee News
  3. 'We have prepared India for the worst'  Mumbai Mirror
  4. Lav Agarwal: We have to learn to live with the virus  Pune Mirror
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Demi Lovato shares relationship update with Max Ehrich: I am very happy

Demi Lovato says she is very happy in her love life, alongside beau Max Ehrich




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Health system being revamped to cope with challenges: KP minister

PESHAWAR: Minister for Health and Finance Taimur Saleem Jhagra on Saturday said the health system was being upgraded to deal with the coronavirus as well as dengue and polio.He was talking to...

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No tourism activities despite reopening of Kaghan valley road

MANSEHRA: Though Kaghan-Naran section of Mansehra-Naran-Jalkhad road has been reopened to traffic following the suspension of five consecutive months, the tourism activities in the valley are yet to...

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HRCP voices reservations over formation of national minorities' commission

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has strong reservations over the formation of a national minorities’ commission through a cabinet decision based on a summary moved by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony.In a statement, it has said that the proposed composition...




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Britain to introduce 2-week quarantine for arrivals

LONDON: Britain plans to introduce a 14-day mandatory quarantine for most international arrivals, reports said Saturday, despite growing pressure on the government to relax virus lockdown measures. It comes as the UK, which has the world’s second highest coronavirus death toll after the US,...




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Ivanka Trump's personal assistant tests positive for coronavirus

WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, making her the third White House staff member to be infected from COVID-19, a media report said on Saturday.The assistant, who works in a personal capacity for US President Donald Trump’s...




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Vaccine orders plummet amid coronavirus outbreak: CDC

Washington: Orders for vaccines against diseases such as measles have declined since a national emergency was declared in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.The number of vaccine doses ordered around the country has...




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Crisis lays bare poverty in Geneva, as thousands queue for food

GENEVA: In one of the world´s most expensive cities, thousands of people lined up Saturday for free food, as the COVID-19 crisis casts a spotlight on Geneva´s usually invisible poor.In the Swiss city famous for its private banks, luxury watchmakers and fancy boutiques, people began...




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Crisis lays bare poverty in Geneva as thousands queue for food

GENEVA: In one of the world’s most expensive cities, thousands of people lined up on Saturday for free food, as the Covid-19 crisis casts a spotlight on Geneva’s usually invisible poor.In the Swiss city famous for its private banks, luxury watchmakers and fancy boutiques, people began...




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ICST hails decision of prime minister for economic revival

Islamabad : The founder of Islamabad Chamber for Small Traders and former President ICCI Shahid Rasheed Butt on Saturday lauded the decision of Prime Minister Imran Khan to restart the economy revival.The COVID-19 will affect the economy for months, maybe years, but reopening businesses cannot...




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HARMAN innovation in evidence everywhere at Geneva Motor Show

GENEVA – HARMAN, the premium global audio and infotainment group (NYSE:HAR), is making one of its strongest showings ever at this year’s Geneva Autosalon, demonstrating infotainment and audio solutions in vehicles from an impressive range of manufacturers. Also testifying to the company’s strength as an industry innovator, HARMAN is showcasing, together with Rinspeed, a new concept car for mobile connectivity within urban spaces. In total, technology and solutions by HARMAN are present in stands throughout the show, demonstrating the predominant role that HARMAN has come to play across the auto industry.




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Vanessa Bryant files claim over crash-site photos

Vanessa Bryant filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, contending deputies shared unauthorized photos of the site where her husband and daughter died in a helicopter crash in January.




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Breakingviews: Excessive Aviva scepticism

Markets are cool over Aviva’s £5.6 bln takeover of Friends Life. The scepticism over the deal is excessive says Breakingviews.




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More than 1,000 queue for food handouts in rich Geneva

More than 1,000 people lined up on Saturday (May 9) to receive free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland. Olivia Chan reports.




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How accurate are COVID-19 tests and when will we have a vaccine?

Dr. Vin Gupta joins to answer some practical questions about how effective the coronavirus tests really are and when we could really see a successful vaccine.




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#VandeBharatMission: ब्रिटेन में फंसे 326 भारतीय नागरिकों का पहला समूह मुंबई पहुंचा

कोरोना वायरस को फैलने से रोकने के लिए दुनियाभर में लगी यात्रा पाबंदियों के कारण ब्रिटेन में फंसे 326 भारतीय नागरिकों का पहला समूह लंदन से शनिवार देर रात मुंबई पहुंचा।




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Brother of Lori Vallow died of natural causes, medical examiner says

Lori Vallow, the Idaho mother jailed in connection to the disappearance of her two missing children, is also under investigation with her current husband in the death of his former wife.




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Shani Vakri 2020: 11 मई से शनि की उल्टी चाल से किस राशि पर कैसा पड़ेगा असर, जानें यहां

शनि 11 मई, सोमवार से अगले 142 दिनों के लिए मार्गी से वक्री होने जा रहे हैं।




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In 3 Months, 3 Immigrants Have Died at a Private Detention Center in California

A Honduran immigrant held at a troubled detention center in California's high desert died Wednesday night while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Vincente Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, was receiving treatment for multiple medical conditions while waiting for an immigration court to decide whether to deport him, according an ICE statement. He collapsed as he was playing soccer at the detention facility and died while en route to a local hospital.

Caceres-Maradiaga's death is the latest in a string of fatalities among detainees held at the Adelanto Detention Facility, which is operated by the GEO Group, the country's largest private prison company. Three people held at the facility have died in the last three months, including Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba, a 32-year-old Nicaraguan found hanging in his cell on March 22, and Sergio Alonso Lopez, a Mexican man who died of internal bleeding on April 13 after spending more than two months in custody.

Since it opened in 2011, Adelanto has faced accusations of insufficient medical care and poor conditions. In July 2015, 29 members of Congress sent a letter to ICE and federal inspectors requesting an investigation into health and safety concerns at the facility. They cited the 2012 death of Fernando Dominguez at the facility, saying it was the result of "egregious errors" by the center's medical staff, who did not give him proper medical examinations or allow him to receive timely off-site treatment. In November 2015, 400 detainees began a hunger strike, demanding better medical and dental care along with other reforms.

Yet last year, the city of Adelanto, acting as a middleman between ICE and GEO, made a deal to extend the company's contract until 2021. The federal government guarantees GEO that a minimum of 975 immigrants will be held at the facility and pays $111 per detainee per day, according to California state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), who has fought to curtail private immigration detention. After that point, ICE only has to pay $50 per detainee per day—an incentive to fill more beds.

Of California's four privately run immigration detention centers, three use local governments as intermediaries between ICE and private prison companies. On Tuesday, the California senate voted 26-13 to ban such contracts, supporting a bill that could potentially close Adelanto when its contract runs out in 2021. The Dignity Not Detention Act, authored by Lara, would prevent local governments from signing or extending contracts with private prison companies to detain immigrants starting in 2019. The bill would also require all in-state facilities that hold ICE detainees, including both private detention centers and public jails, to meet national standards for detention conditions—empowering state prosecutors to hold detention center operators accountable for poor conditions inside their facilities.

An identical bill passed last year but was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown. "I have been troubled by recent reports detailing unsatisfactory conditions and limited access to counsel in private immigration detention facilities," Brown wrote in his veto message last September. But he deferred to the Department of Homeland Security, which was then reviewing its use of for-profit immigration detention. In that review, the Homeland Security Advisory Council rejected the ongoing use of private prison companies to detain immigrants, citing the "inferiority of the private prison model." Yet since President Donald Trump took office, the federal government has moved to expand private immigration detention, signing a $110 million deal with GEO in April to build the first new immigration detention center under Trump.

Nine people have died in ICE custody in fiscal year 2017, which began October 1. Meanwhile, private prison stocks have nearly doubled in value since Election Day.




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ICANN rejects private equity purchase of .org

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this weekend announced that it has voted down the proposed change of control and entity conversion request submitted to it by the Public Interest Registry (PIR). ICANN, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to ensuring the secure and stable operation of the internet’s unique identifier systems, noted in…




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Saskatoon company using plants to help search for COVID-19 vaccine

ZYUS Life Sciences is working with VIDO-InterVac to see if proteins produced by plants can be made into a working COVID-19 vaccine. 




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Tracking COVID-19 With the IoT May Put Your Privacy at Risk

The coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to balance public health and personal privacy




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Vanessa Bryant files claim over crash-site photos

Vanessa Bryant filed a claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, contending deputies shared unauthorized photos of the site where her husband and daughter died in a helicopter crash in January.




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Rahul Gandhi Demands Audit of PM-CARES Fund, Says 'Record of Money Received & Spent Should be Made Available to Public'

New Delhi, May 9: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should ensure an audit of PM-CARES. Rahul Gandhi said that PM-CARES fund received huge contributions from public sector units (PSUs) and organisation, including Indian Railways.





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'Vande Bharat' adds 2 new cases to Kerala's 'flattened COVID-19 curve'; Vijayan says 'warning' sign for all states




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AI crew on ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ can return to Gautam Budh Nagar from Delhi after COVID-19 test




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Vande Bharat Mission: 163 Indians arrives in Hyderabad from Kuwait

Hyderabad (Telangana)/ Kuwait, May 10 (ANI): India has continued to repatriate its people from aboard on the third day also. On May 09, an Air India flight brought back 163 Indians to Hyderabad from Kuwait under ‘Vande Bharat Mission’. Indian ambassador in Kuwait, K Jeeva Sagar said, “Vande Bharat Mission has taken off very, we are looking forward for its success.” The Vande Bharat Mission started on May 07 to bring back Indian nationals from aboard.





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Scientific Consensus Shows Covid-19 'Not Genetically Engineered', India Funding Vaccine Development: DBT Secretary

Ministry of Science and Technology's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Dr Renu Swarup says that based on the latest WHO consensus, Covid-19 as a 'lab release' theory is likely to be false.





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Scientific Consensus Shows Covid-19 'Not Genetically Engineered', India Funding Vaccine Development: DBT Secretary

Ministry of Science and Technology's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) Dr Renu Swarup says that based on the latest WHO consensus, Covid-19 as a 'lab release' theory is likely to be false.





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Books of the week: From Vaasanthi's biography of Karunanidhi to Sonali Gupta's Anxiety, our picks

Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar.





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From Dushyant to Om Prakash Valmiki, Poetry Depicts the Never-ending Struggle of 'Invisible' Poor

Indian Hindi and Urdu poetry has time and again narrated horror stories of how the society turns a blind towards the dying poor. News18 has compiled a collection of ten such pieces of literature to depict the present condition of migrant workers.





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From Dushyant to Om Prakash Valmiki, Poetry Depicts the Never-ending Struggle of 'Invisible' Poor

Indian Hindi and Urdu poetry has time and again narrated horror stories of how the society turns a blind eye towards the dying poor. News18 has compiled a collection of ten such pieces of literature to depict the present condition of migrant workers.





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Who Needs Photoshop When These 23 Unbelievable Pictures Are Completely REAL? Whoa.

It's not a trick - each of these photos are completely real.




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Tweet Buster: MSME stimulus & RIL's peanut valuation

Will extra taxes on fuel and alcohol be used to bring relief to the economy?




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The Northern Pikes & Sawdust City Music Festival

The Northern Pikes are one of the classic Canadian rock bands of the late '80s and 90s with iconic songs like “She Ain’t Pretty,” “Teenland,” “Things I Do for Money,” and “Girl with a Problem.” They’re back with a new LP, Forest of Love - their first new release in 16 years. Mike sat down with the full band, including newcomer Kevin Kane of Grapes of Wrath, to chat about songwriting, how making and releasing an album in 2019 compares to their past experiences, how age and maturity have altered their perspectives, and a lot more.

Then, we catch up with the multi-talented (and ever-busy) Miranda Mulholland to chat about the Sawdust City Music Festival, running from August 2-4, 2019 in Gravenhurst, ON. Leading up to its third annual edition, Miranda discusses the realities of organizing and delivering a music festival in 2019 (a particularly timely subject), the event's growth in both size and ambition in the past three years, and more.




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Closing the Value Gap & Saving the Creative Middle Class

Music Canada recently shared its latest report, “Closing the Value Gap: How to Fix Safe Harbours and Save the Creative Middle Class.” As the title suggests, the report examines the gap between revenues derived by online entertainment platforms - particularly YouTube - and the revenues returned to artists and labels, then offers five recommendations on how to address the issue.

On this week's podcast, Mike and Graham Henderson, Music Canada's President and CEO, dive into the report before getting into some important big picture conversations about philosophical shifts in how music is paid for, how the industry can make its case to the public and government, and even some politics.

Also, please visit www.friendsofjohncody.com and consider helping one of our own in dire circumstances.




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The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History

For today's episode, Mike had a chance to sit down for a lively, fascinating, and fun conversation with Daniel Tate and Rob Bowman, authors of the brilliant new book The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History. Covering from the mid-1800s all the way to 2000, the book offers a comprehensive and incredibly interesting history of Toronto’s live music scene, all illustrated with images from Daniel’s massive collection of concert flyers spanning over a century – from minstrel troupes to Notorious B.I.G.’s only Toronto show, which almost caused a riot.

If you have any interest in the history of popular music, you’ll love this fun conversation.

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Two-week quarantine for travellers ‘would devastate airline industry’

We're led to believe though that, having refused to quarantine the vast majority of passengers arriving in the UK earlier, the government will now move to do so, as lockdown starts to ease.