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Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Joe Biden’s victory certified in two key states as Donald Trump fights on

Two battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results in favour of Joe Biden, even as President Donald Trump's legal team continued to dispute the results.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Farming
Basic Payment Scheme balancing payments and Young Farmer Payments to be made this week

Balancing payments under the 2020 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Young Farmers Scheme payments have now commenced, the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has confirmed.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Farming
Basic Payment Scheme balancing payments and Young Farmer Payments to be made this week

Balancing payments under the 2020 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and Young Farmers Scheme payments have now commenced, the Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has confirmed.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
Tara Reade & Rose McGowan: Surviving rape culture and the Democratic cult

Having spoken out about Joe Biden's sexual misconduct, I suffered a media blacklisting. The only person who came to my help was Rose McGowan, a fellow survivor disillusioned in cult-like...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Iran’s parliament moves towards ending of UN inspections of nuclear sites

Iran's parliament advanced a bill that would end UN inspections of its nuclear facilities and require the government to boost its uranium enrichment if European signatories to the 2015 nuclear...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Hong Kong’s leader urges people to stay at home amid pandemic surge

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has urged residents to stay at home as the city grapples with a resurgence of coronavirus, which has infected more than 600 people in the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
China to overtake US as world’s largest consumer market ‘very soon’

China's consumer goods market is rapidly catching up with the US and is poised to become the world's largest in the near future, according to a top Chinese economic planning...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
‘Del Boy biker’ adopted French accent in bid to avoid prosecution – police

A motorcyclist stopped for speeding has been compared to Del Boy from Only Fools And Horses after adopting a French accent in a bid to avoid prosecution, according to police.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Missing sailor rescued clinging to capsized boat 86 miles off coastline

A missing Florida sailor was rescued after he was found clinging to his capsized boat 86 miles off the coastline.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
Carnival Corp. backs down from legal fight with LeBron James over trademark

Carnival Corporation has backed down from a legal fight with basketball star LeBron James. Just eight days after James filed an opposition to Carnival Corp.'s application for a “King James”...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
Carnival Corp. backs down from legal fight with LeBron James over trademark

Carnival Corporation has backed down from a legal fight with basketball star LeBron James. Just eight days after James filed an opposition to Carnival Corp.'s application for a “King James”...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Unemployment falls in Germany despite partial coronavirus shutdown

Germany's unemployment rate dipped in November despite a partial shutdown introduced to halt a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, official data showed.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Unemployment falls in Germany despite partial coronavirus shutdown

Germany's unemployment rate dipped in November despite a partial shutdown introduced to halt a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, official data showed.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
BioNTech, Pfizer ask Europe to OK vaccine for emergency use

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they have submitted an application for conditional approval of their coronavirus vaccine with the European Medicines Agency. The two companies...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
BioNTech, Pfizer ask Europe to OK vaccine for emergency use

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they have submitted an application for conditional approval of their coronavirus vaccine with the European Medicines Agency. The two companies...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
BioNTech, Pfizer ask Europe to OK vaccine for emergency use

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer say they have submitted an application for conditional approval of their coronavirus vaccine with the European Medicines Agency. The two companies...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
DIY boom helps Topps Tiles bounce back after lockdown hit

Topps Tiles has slumped to an annual loss after taking a hit of around £16 million from coronavirus, but cheered rebounding sales thanks to a boom in DIY activity.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Thousands flee as activity in Indonesian volcanoes increases

Indonesian authorities are closely monitoring several volcanoes after sensors picked up increased activity in recent weeks, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
David Attenborough to receive lifetime achievement award

Sir David Attenborough will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Rose d'Or Awards, organisers have announced.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
Pandemic threatens to crush dollar & plunge US economy into double-dip recession, top economist warns

While vaccine hopes are driving markets higher to book historically strong gains, the US economy is still in a vulnerable position, according to former Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach....

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
Iran’s parliament advances bill to stop nuclear inspections

Iran's parliament Tuesday advanced a bill that would end U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities and require the government to boost its uranium enrichment if European signatories to the 2015...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
World’s largest trade pact led by China could crush US gas exports

Fifteen countries across Asia just signed the world's largest-ever trade pact, but it may wind up hurting US natural gas. Recent political and geopolitical developments in the United States and...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Brexit: First fish, then it was sausages, and now chips are under threat

The ill-fated Soviet revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, memorably said – some years before he departed this world with an ice-axe in his head – “You may not be interested in war,...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
Dutch climate activists take Shell to court over emissions

A group of environmental organizations backed by thousands of Dutch citizens is launching a civil case Tuesday against the energy giant Shell, asking a court to order the multinational to...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Pets At Home nets £100m from sale of five specialist vet practices

Pets At Home has sold its specialist veterinary business for £100 million to rival Linnaeus Group, the company has revealed.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
As the virus resurges, mental health woes batter France

The panicked 22-year-old is led to Consultation Room No. 2, with its easy-mop floor and honeycombed meshing over the window. Behind her, the psychiatric emergency ward's heavy double doors —...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
A Covid-19 vaccine may be on horizon, but it will not eradicate middle class fear of a united working class

The British left is once again ignoring those they claim to represent branding them ‘far-right conspiracy theorists' for being worried about the erosion of their freedoms. There has been deep...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
UK house prices hit record highs for four months in a row – index

House prices hit a new record high for the fourth month in a row in November, according to an index.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Donald Trump’s Covid advisor Scott Atlas to leave the White House

A science adviser to US President Donald Trump who was sceptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak is leaving his White House post.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Donald Trump’s Covid advisor Scott Atlas to leave the White House

A science adviser to US President Donald Trump who was sceptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak is leaving his White House post.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Donald Trump’s Covid advisor Scott Atlas to leave the White House

A science adviser to US President Donald Trump who was sceptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak is leaving his White House post.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Coronavirus robs Bethlehem of Christmas cheer

Coronavirus has cast a pall over nativity celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as the birthplace of Jesus, at the height of the Christmas season.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Coronavirus robs Bethlehem of Christmas cheer

Coronavirus has cast a pall over nativity celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as the birthplace of Jesus, at the height of the Christmas season.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Coronavirus robs Bethlehem of Christmas cheer

Coronavirus has cast a pall over nativity celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as the birthplace of Jesus, at the height of the Christmas season.

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Politics
GALLOWAY: Weeks after dying, Robert Fisk is savaged by liberal war propagandists. Why? Because he was a brave anti-imperialist

For almost 50 years, British journalist Robert Fisk single-handedly exposed the truth of the West's wars. It's only now he's gone that shameful, kow-towing cowards have come out to try...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
Lockdown Lifts: €4.8bn expected to be spent in December as festive rush begins

After six weeks of lockdown restrictions, the country will burst back into life today as retailers and businesses all over Ireland reopen their doors ahead of what they're hoping could...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Breaking News
As Ireland’s lockdown eases, our European neighbours are taking the opposite approach

We are not the only ones who will be “trying to get over” a very strange Christmas this year. In fact compared with many of our EU neighbours it could...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
The Latest: Nobel laureate warns of increased trafficking

UNITED NATIONS — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says the COVID-19 pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
The Latest: Nobel laureate warns of increased trafficking

UNITED NATIONS — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says the COVID-19 pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the...

Posted by The Analyst | December 1, 2020 | Business
The Latest: Nobel laureate warns of increased trafficking

UNITED NATIONS — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad says the COVID-19 pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the...