While rates of infection around the UK vary wildly, the capital has managed to hit a low of fewer than 24 cases a day. Now the clamor is growing to ease up on the lockdown and get back to normal life. With fewer than 24 new cases of coronavirus appearing in London each day now,...
A poultry producer is temporarily closing two plants at a North Carolina complex for cleaning amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Tyson Foods spokesman Derek Burleson said in an email one of … Click to Continue »
During a storied legal career, Clyde Bergstresser has become one of the go-to medical malpractice lawyers in Massachusetts. But as COVID-19 cases surged at Boston area hospitals, Bergstresser found his … Click to Continue »
Germany's economy shrank by 2.2 percent in the first quarter compared to the final three months of 2019, preliminary official statistics have shown. It's the biggest slump in a decade for Europe's largest economy. Figures for the final three months of 2019 were revised to show a contraction of 0.1 percent, which means German GDP...
The company building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has vowed to appeal Germany's refusal to remove the multibillion-dollar project from the restrictions laid out in the “discriminatory” EU Gas Directive. The latest amendment to the EU rules was greenlighted in April last year, long after Nord Stream 2 construction began. The legislature made the...
During a recent songwriting session, singer-songwriters Sarah Loethen and Christoffer Wadensten pieced together the lyrics and melody of a song they were writing about the global pandemic. Loethen played the … Click to Continue »
The elderly in US care institutions are dying disproportionately from Covid-19. The pandemic has revealed the extent to which their wellbeing and safety have been sacrificed by an industry that prioritizes profit and influence. The US response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has been one of the most chaotic and ineffective in the developed world,...
