Labour call on PM to stop dithering and delaying
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth calls for the prime minister to stop the dither and delay over restrictions and publish the advice he is getting from SAGE.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth calls for the prime minister to stop the dither and delay over restrictions and publish the advice he is getting from SAGE.
Rescuers searching for the remaining workers trapped in a Chinese gold mine after Sunday's dramatic extraction of 11 survivors found nine bodies, a local official said on Monday, taking the death toll to 10, with one miner still missing. A total of 22 miners working about 600 metres (2,000 feet) underground were trapped after an explosion at the Hushan mine in Qixia, a major gold-producing region in China's coastal Shandong province, on Jan. 10. Yantai Mayor Chen Fei said rescuers kept searching from Sunday to Monday afternoon and found the bodies of nine miners, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte looked for a solution on Monday to a political crisis that has enveloped his government, leaving him without a reliable majority in the upper house Senate. Several Italian newspapers reported that Conte was set to hand in his resignation to the head of state this week and then try to put together a new, broader coalition, drawing up a policy pact for the remaining two years of the legislature. However, a senior government source denied that this was Conte's plan.
Chinese rescue workers have found the bodies of nine more miners after an explosion a fortnight ago, local officials said Monday, raising the death toll to 10.
England will then play Sri Lanka in a three-match Twenty20 International series starting June 23, which precedes the three-match one-day international series against the same opposition. England's summer schedule also features one-day international and T20 series with Pakistan and a five-match test series against India. "The prospect of our England Men's team taking on the world's two top-ranked Test nations in New Zealand and India this summer is something for us all to savour," ECB Chief Executive Officer, Tom Harrison, said.
Everton assistant manager Duncan Ferguson said he was confident that Dominic Calvert-Lewin would start "battering" in the goals again after the England forward ended his drought.
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 25 — As the number of Covid-19 patients in Penang continue to rise and government hospitals filled to over-capacity, some of these patients are spilling over into private...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Europe as a whole was moving towards having better controls in place to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. "Everywhere in Europe, we are moving in the coming weeks in order to adapt our strategy to better control the pandemic," Macron told the "Choose France" investment summit. Macron's government is currently weighing up whether or not to impose a third, national lockdown on France to curb the COVID virus, with a cabinet meeting slated for Wednesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — Fifty-five foreign workers from the 5,297 screened yesterday under mandatory Covid-19 testing for the group tested positive, according to Senior Defence Minister Datuk Seri...
Buffalo Bills fans gathered at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in the early hours of January 25 to welcome their team home after their 38-24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game.Quarterback Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance as he threw for 325 yards and three touchdowns at Arrowhead Stadium. The leading quarterback of a new generation will now face 43-year-old Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the February 7 decider.This video shows Bills fans cheering the team’s arrival. Credit: @Pammadonna via Storyful
Britain's opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer said on Monday he was self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, the third time he has needed to quarantine. "I have no symptoms and will be working from home until next Monday," Starmer said on Twitter. Starmer also had to self-isolate in September after a member of his household showed symptoms of the virus and again in December after a member of his staff tested positive.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Monday giving priority to US companies and products in contracts with the federal government, pushing a "Made in America" approach favored by predecessor Donald Trump.
Rescuers searching for the remaining workers trapped in a Chinese gold mine after Sunday's dramatic extraction of 11 survivors found nine bodies, a local official said on Monday, taking the death toll to 10, with one miner still missing.
The new talents will take turns replacing Shuk for his ‘Hot Morning Gang’ show. This article, HotFM lines up 10 fresh voices to replace radio DJ in alleged cheating affair, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media company.
Sales of the Bridgerton novels, by American writer Julia Quinn, have exploded in the wake of the hit Netflix series.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 25 — National Security Council (NSC) has announced that an enhanced movement control order (EMCO) will be placed on Taiping Prison and its staff quarters for the second time...
The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 12 on Monday, according to figures from authorities across south-eastern Africa, where heavy winds, rain and flooding have also destroyed buildings and crops. A tropical cyclone when it made landfall at Mozambique's central province of Sofala on Saturday, Eloise subsequently weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland to dump rain on Zimbabwe, eSwatini - formerly known as Swaziland - South Africa and Botswana. Six people were killed in Mozambique, the country's National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) reported, while the number of displaced people rose to more than 8,000.
Four players hit fifties as Bangladesh made 297-6 to set a stiff target in the third one-day international against West Indies in Chittagong on Monday.
Jenson Button has joined Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in entering a team for the inaugural Extreme E season but unlike his fellow Formula One world champions he will also be behind the wheel.