Новости за 02.07.2020

• President Donald Trump is set to appear at a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on Friday before an anticipated crowd of 7,500 people.
• Masks will not be required for attendees, and social distancing will not be enforced, according to Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
• Health experts expressed concern that the event could put the community at risk from the coronavirus.
• A former superintendent of the memorial and a local wildfire expert also said the fireworks could... Читать дальше...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It was a simple family get-together; a wedding gathering. About 30 people went out to dinner.

Malaysia has joined Indonesia in trying to get the EU to overturn restrictions on palm oil, said to aggravate deforestation, in a case at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. EU plans to ban its use as a biofuel by 2030 were "discriminatory" and "unreasonable", Malaysian plantations minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali said Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Reuters reports. Malaysia and Indonesia make 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

CURWENSVILLE – A Curwensville man is facing felony and misdemeanor charges for an alleged assault that police say has left another man hospitalized with severe head trauma. Keavon L. Chisolm, 29, is charged by Curwensville Borough police with felony aggravated assault, misdemeanor recklessly endangering another person, simple assault (two counts) and disorderly conduct, plus summary […]

Noida and Ghaziabad on Wednesday decided to continue with curbs at the borders, a day after the UP government authorised them to take a decision in consultation with their respective health and police departments. Current movement restrictions between Delhi and the two cities will, therefore, continue.

The European Commission says it is in talks with the US biopharmaceutical company Gilead to secure supplies of remdesivir but won't provide any details. The comments follow the purchase of the world's supply by the United States.

A Portland artist has been doing his part to keep the movement for racial justice alive through iconic images of people like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Austria has dampened hopes of a return by tourists to non-EU parts of the Western Balkans, saying Wednesday people returning from the region would have to self-quarantine for 14 days. "An increase [of infections] in clusters of people returning from travel in the Western Balkans," led to the move, Austrian foreign minister Alexander Schallenberg said. EU ambassadors had recently added Serbia and Montenegro to a non-binding white-list.

The boss of an NHS trust has taken a period of leave due to ill health.

A Turkish state council recommendation due Thursday (2 July) on whether Hagia Sophia, a museum in Istanbul, can be turned back into a mosque, could further strain Western relations, after Greece and the US urged Turkey not to go ahead. Turkish pro-government media say first new prayers could be held on 15 July. The originally Christian, then Muslim, temple was deconsecrated in 1934 as a symbol of Turkey's then secularism.

Idris Khattak was last seen on November 13 last year after security agents stopped his car near the Swabi interchange in the northernmost province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Fredi Bobic discussed Filip Kostic's future at Eintracht Frankfurt, as well as Ante Rebic and Andre Silva.

Williams and wife Ayda Field were helping with the relief effort following the 2010 earthquake.

France is temporarily suspending its involvement in a Nato naval operation off Libya's coast after a standoff with a Turkish ship and amid growing tensions within the military alliance over Libya, Reuters reports. France is also calling for a new crisis mechanism to prevent a repeat of an incident earlier this month between Turkish warships and a French naval vessel in the Mediterranean, considering it a hostile act.

The DA in Limpopo has condemned provincial health authorities after the Polokwane Hospital allegedly failed to dispatch an ambulance crew to the house of a local journalist - because it didn't have enough personal protective equipment.

The EU Commission presented on Wednesday the EU's Skills Agenda which sets quantitative objectives for up-skilling and re-skilling within the next five years. It is based on 12 actions that aim to ensure that people have the skills needed for the changing labour market in the green and digital economy. To implement the agenda, the EU will need around €48bn per year of additional public and private investments.

HARRISBURG – On Wednesday the Wolf Administration reminded Pennsylvanians of the requirements put in place for restaurants and bars to protect the health and safety of workers and patrons from COVID-19. “As we continue to make public health and safety a top priority, it’s also important that we take measured and necessary steps so that Pennsylvanians can patronize businesses safely,” Gov. Tom Wolf said. “Restaurants and bars offer families and friends a place to gather and socialize while enjoying food and drink... Читать дальше...

HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 637, which removes outdated licensing barriers so skilled workers with criminal records can get a second chance and start good careers. The governor has advocated for sweeping changes to the licensing process for years.  The governor proposed reforms to job licensing requirements and licensing boards […]

The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notice to Telangana Education Department and state government asking about the policy decision on online classes.

Copper stocks at Shanghai bonded warehouses fell to a fresh all-time low at the end of June following the reopening of the import arbitrage window in China, while aluminium inventories also declined for the same reason.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Vitoria Gabrielle crawled all the time and was starting to walk this year with a little help, hanging on to her 4-year-old brother's arm while exploring her mother's small apartment on a cobblestone street in Rio de Janeiro's working-class Piety neighborhood.

The fact Gerhard Schröder, a former chancellor-turned-Kremlin-lobbyist, was invited to a German parliament committee hearing on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was a "disgrace" for NGO panelist Alexander Reitzenstein, German media reported. New US sanctions on the Russia-Germany gas pipeline were a "termination of the transatlantic partnership," Schröder told MPs. It was "absurd" that the US acted as "a regulator of European [energy] issues", Niels Annen, a German official said.

Somany Home Innovation Ltd, makers of ‘Hindware Appliances,’ is on consolidation mode with the impact of Covid lockdown all pervading.While it consoli

The inspector general is accusing Secretary Wilbur Ross of holding up a report on the 2019 “Sharpiegate” scandal at NOAA.

Says all ordinances formulated in cognizance of the Swaminathan committee report