Dodds calls for long-term plan as economy is in 'fragile'
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds says it is "critically important" the government has a long-term prospective, while the country is in a "fragile economic state".
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds says it is "critically important" the government has a long-term prospective, while the country is in a "fragile economic state".
But we don't think it will be in stock for long.
With hours left in Donald Trump's presidency, China's foreign ministry took aim at its chief U.S. antagonist, "lying and cheating" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and said it would seek cooperation with the incoming administration of Joe Biden. Pompeo, who has unleashed a barrage of measures against China in his final weeks in office, delivered his own parting shot on Tuesday when he announced that the Trump administration had determined that China has committed “genocide and crimes against humanity” by repressing Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Band will play ‘You Get What You Give’ for first time in 22 years
Joe Biden will sign 15 executive actions after he is sworn in as U.S. president on Wednesday, aides said, undoing policies put in place by outgoing President Donald Trump and making his first moves on the pandemic and climate change. To address the "crises" of the pandemic, the economy, climate change and racial inequity, Biden will sign the executive orders and memorandums in the Oval Office in the afternoon, and ask agencies to take steps in two additional areas, said incoming Press Secretary Jen Psaki. Biden will also begin the process of re-entering the Paris climate accord and issue a sweeping order tackling climate change, including revoking the presidential permit granted to the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Britain said on Wednesday it was helping Kenya prepare to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University, as African nations race to ensure their populations are inoculated. The East African nation has ordered 24 million doses of the vaccine and it expects delivery of the shots to start in the second week of February. "It is for us not just our moral duty, but in the British national interest to see Kenyans vaccinated just as soon as we physically, logistically can," British foreign minister Dominic Raab told a news conference during a visit to Nairobi.
Portuguese Economy Minister Pedro Siza Vieira has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in self-isolation, his office reported late on Tuesday, the third cabinet member to be diagnosed with the virus in a week. He had already been in quarantine at home since Saturday as a precautionary measure after Finance Minister Joao Leao tested positive following a meeting with top EU officials. Siza Vieira and Prime Minister Antonio Costa were also at that meeting.
Wife and Health DG Noor Hisham clarify burnout rumors after photo of doctor snoozing at his desk spread online. This article, Pandemic doctor died of acute respiratory distress, not fatigue or COVID, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.
Indonesia's leader on Wednesday assured relatives of 62 people killed in a Sriwijaya Air plane crash that they will be compensated. President Joko Widodo visited the command center at Jakarta’s international container terminal where tons of plane debris hauled by divers from seafloor were collected for an investigation into what caused the Boeing 737-500 to nosedive into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta on Jan. 9.
A gay American couple is being deported from Bali after viral tweets that called the Indonesian resort island "queer friendly".
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) has sanctioned the proposal from two Olympic-qualified shooters Manu Bhaker and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa to engage the services of sports psychologist Sanjana Kiran to assist them in their preparation for the Tokyo Olympics.
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Jan.20 -- ASML Holding NV Chief Executive Officer Peter Wennink says the chip industry needs to deal with the global semiconductor supply shortage. He spoke on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open" after the firm, a crucial supplier to Samsung Electronics Co. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, reported first-quarter results which beat analyst expectations.
Joe Root's England will look to sweep Sri Lanka in the second and final Test, starting Friday, as they prepare to face an India side buoyed by their sensational victory in Australia.
For ten days, Chinese officials have been scrambling to save 22 workers trapped 600 metres underground in a gold mine. That's according to state media who said the trapped miners received more medical supplies, porridge and blankets on Tuesday, but one person is in a critical condition with a severe head injury. The workers became trapped in the Hushan mine, in northern China's Shandong province, after an explosion on January 10. A week later, it emerged that at least 12 of them were still alive, thanks to a note retrieved from the mine that read: "We hope the rescue won't stop." Working around the clock, a drilled channel helped locate 11 of the miners on Sunday, and rescuers were able to speak to them via a waterproof phone. Then on Monday evening the miners made a small request of sausages and pickles, but medical experts decided they should not eat hard food having only just regained their strength, reported Xinhua news. It added that two workers who had been very weak were able to walk again on Tuesday thanks to the food and medical supplies, citing a member of the rescue team. Eight of the 11 miners are in good health. But that breakthrough has been dimmed by a People's Daily report that one worker was in a coma, after he sustained a head injury from the blast. One more miner has since been located in another section of the mine, while the whereabouts of the other 10 remain unknown. The handling of the accident has been criticised by state media. Two senior officials have been dismissed and the government has ordered a comprehensive inspection of the country's non-coal mines.
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India began supplying coronavirus vaccines to its neighboring countries on Wednesday, as the world’s largest vaccine making nation strikes a balance between maintaining enough doses to inoculate its own people and helping developing countries without the capacity to produce their own shots. India's Foreign Ministry said the country would send 150,000 shots of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine, manufactured locally by Serum Institute of India, to Bhutan and 100,000 shots to the Maldives on Wednesday. India's ambassador to Nepal, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, said Wednesday that New Delhi would supply Nepal with 1 million doses free of charge, with the first to arrive as early as Thursday.
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers says talk of his side emulating the Foxes' 2016 fairytale Premier League title win is premature given the volatile state of the race for the crown.