A presidential decree has been gazetted Thursday with the line-up of a new caretaker government that will prepare the November 14 elections for a new Parliament and the presidential elections to be held on the same day. Most ministers from the caretaker government of Prime Minister Stefan Yanev, including Yanev himself, keep their offices. Only three ministers are different: of Economy, of Finance and of Transport, IT and Communications.
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ACROSS EUROPE this summer, vaccine take-up began to slow after the willing got their covid-19 shots. Persuading the hesitant was always going to be harder. Few places looked more challenging than France. In December 2020 61% of the French said they would not get jabbed—twice the share in America. Yet what happened this summer has become a case study in how to nudge a reluctant population.
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“I HOPE YOU never have to see it like this again,” says Markus Quint, communications chief for Frankfurt’s Messe (exhibition centre), as he surveys 440,000 square metres of empty halls from a 22nd-floor terrace. When the pandemic struck last spring the Messe, which had welcomed nearly 2.5m visitors in 2019, had to shut for all business bar the digital sort. Worldwide revenues (the Messe has 29 subsidiaries) plunged from €736m ($870m) to €257m. Most of the 1,000-odd Frankfurt staff went on Kurzarbeitergeld... Читать дальше...
EVERY TIME Olaf Scholz or Annalena Baerbock is asked about a coalition with Die Linke (The Left), a party that emerged in 2007 from the ashes of East Germany’s Communist Party, they furiously beat around the bush. Mr Scholz, the Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) candidate for the chancellorship, says that he needs a clear commitment to NATO from any future coalition partner. Ms Baerbock, the Green Party’s candidate, says that she will talk to all democratic parties—and Die Linke is a democratic party too. Читать дальше...
PM Modi inaugurates defence office complexes at Delhi's KG Marg, Africa Avenue
Munich [Germany], September 16 (ANI): FC Bayern Munich on Thursday extended Leon Goretzka's contract, which was originally due to run until June 2022, till 2026. "We've won everything there is to win over the past three years. But what would be even better than winning titles is confirming and repeating these successes. We want to build on this in the coming years," said the 26-year-old in an official release. "The team,
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 16 (ANI): Vickrant Mahajan, a sports motivator from Jammu, has started a programme to mentor athletes to win gold medals at big sports events like the Olympics. Speaking about the initiative, Vickrant said, "I started a programme called Goalete. The journey of this programme started at the Army Institute of Sports in 2019. Goalete aims to identify 25 players who will be motivat
STRICTLY COME DANCING fans will get their first-look at the couples for this year's series on Saturday evening but one star has admitted they are "jealous" over Karen Hauer's new partner.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Thursday denied any knowledge of any potential change in the team's leadership amid rumours that new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board — Ramiz Raja — was monitoring the situation and could wield his proverbial axe if his expectations were not met.
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Beijing [China], September 16 (ANI): At the tender age when students as young as seven are supposed to learn education basics, the Communist Party of China has decided to include "Xi Thought" in the curriculum to put leader, party and the nation first to "cultivate the builders and successors of socialism", a media report said. In a statement, the education ministry said that the new curriculum is aimed "to cultivate the
The retail giant, which operates the John Lewis department store and the Waitrose supermarket chain, unveiled a £29 million pre-tax loss for the half-year to July 31.
Wife and husband Penina Elbaz and David Schwartzman of Montreal, Canada, say they have been unable to visit their North Hero home during the pandemic.
Antibody levels have levelled off or declined slightly among adults in old age groups, however.
Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen come out on top of the 20-driver grid
Team Europe skipper Padraig Harrington turned to two Ryder Cup stalwarts as he named Spain's Sergio Garcia and England's Ian Poulter along with Ireland's Shane Lowry as his three 'picks' for this month's match against the United States. Irishman Harrington named his picks a few hours after England's Lee We
JSE-listed renewable energy company Kibo Energy has signed a heads of terms with Aim-listed gasification solutions company EQTEC to acquire a 54.54% interest in the proposed 25 MW Billingham waste gasification and power plant at Haverton Hill, in Teesside, in the UK. It is expected that Kibo will acquire a 54.54% equity stake in the project special-purpose vehicle (SPV).
The third chapter of “Inheritance” is a recognition, a celebration, and a reclamation of the Black body.
Taiwan’s Gogoro will go public in the U.S. via a special-purpose acquisition vehicle merger with Poema Global Holdings that values the battery-swapping pioneer at more than $2.3 billion.
Sunil Gavaskar on R Ashwin’s inclusion in T20 WC: It is consolation
Elections to the 8th Russian State Duma are scheduled for September 19, 2021
《尚气》在美国的成功，代表着一个中国文化在客场从边缘走向中心的罕见时刻。
By Rajendra Jadhav KAKINADA, India (Reuters) - India could account for as much as 45% of global rice exports in 2021 as expanded port-handling capacity allows the world's second largest rice grower