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The provisions of the law on public health protection that authorises the Public Health Authority (ÚVZ) to issue ordinances as generally binding legislation are in compliance with the Constitution. Our paywall policy: The Slovak Spectator has decided to make all the articles on the special measures, statistics and basic information about the coronavirus available to everyone. If you appreciate our work and would like to support good journalism, please buy our subscription . We believe this is an issue where accurate and fact-based information is important for people to cope. This stems from the December 1 ruling of the Constitutional Court, which decided on a motion submitted by General Prosecutor Maroš Žilinka. The court accepted the motion back in May, but it did not stop the effectiveness of the challenged provisions. Žilinka said that he will not comment on the decision, since they have not received it yet. ÚVZ belongs among state administration bodies “The …

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“I am surprised that an area like this is Conservative. It’s mind-blowing to me. This is about as working-class as you can get,” says David Wright, shivering under his ‘Unite’ beanie cap. He motions despairingly at the red-brick bungalows with fastidious front lawns and smashed-up wing mirrors taped to Vauxhall Corsas. His dragging Brummie vowels immediately give away that he is not local to the Black Country town of Dudley. It eventually transpires that he has travelled from the safe constituency of Hodge Hill in Birmingham to campaign for Labour in the General Election in the bellwether seat, which the Tories missed out on by just 22 votes in 2017. Although Mr Wright insists Labour can hang on, in the end, bewilderment seems to get the better of him. “For the life of me, I can’t work out why this is a Conservative area. It can only be the Brexit issue," he says, almost thinking out loud. Dudley North, which voted 72 per cent Leave in the referendum, is top of the Tory’s …

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There are few grammatical constructs that stir as much passion as the apostrophe. But language traditionalists will be saddened to hear that the punctuation mark could soon be a thing of the past. There has been a noticeable decline in its use, according to the largest ever study of how spoken and written language has evolved over the past three decades. Researchers from Lancaster University have amassed a database of 100 million words that they have used to analyse trends from the early Nineties to the present. “The most striking thing you can see is how informal language has become,” said Dr Vaclav Brezina who led the study. “There has been a systematic shift not only towards more informal vocabulary but also towards more informal grammar.” Dr Brezina, an expert in linguistics, said this was one of the more surprising findings, since normally grammar is more resistant to changes over time. “There has been a very noticeable drop in the use of apostrophes,” he said, …

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A woman has sparked a conversation about workplace sexual harassment after revealing that she changed the way she dresses for work after a coworker made her feel “extremely uncomfortable” for wearing leggings. Fena Reti, who goes by the username @ fena_reti on TikTok , described the incident of alleged harassment in a video posted last week, in which the factory worker revealed that she had dressed in sweatpants after the encounter to “feel safe from the male gaze,” but that her coworker had again commented on her appearance. “A coworker I just met made me feel extremely uncomfortable for wearing leggings,” Reti wrote in the caption of her TikTok. “So today I dressed up how I usually do to feel safe from the male gaze.” In the video, Reti then stood back from the camera to show her outfit of gray sweatpants, with the TikTok user revealing that her coworker had then commented on that outfit as well. “When he saw me, he stopped me and said: ‘Can I just say …

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Iranian state media on Monday published photographs of the trial investigating the shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger jet in 2020 by the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard trying to tamp down criticism of the largely closed-door proceeding. The Mizan news agency, an arm of the country's judiciary, showed pictures of the inside of the military courtroom, with at least one man and a woman holding up pictures identified as victims of the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight No. PS752 Missile strikes killed all 176 people on board the Jan. 3, 2020 flight. But online, people reacted angrily to an image of a judge sitting in front of a large sign that euphemistically read: “The court reviewing the incident of flight PS752 Ukraine." They called on the court to clearly state that the plane had been shot down by the Guard. The state-run IRNA news agency said the trial that began Sunday will see 10 suspects tried. Iranian media have not identified those …

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In the film Dodgeball , the vile owner of Globo Gym (played by Ben Stiller) boasts: “I earned this body and I built this temple out of nothing more than a little can-do attitude and elbow grease… and a large inheritance from my father, Earl Goodman.” The reaction to the claim by Forbes magazine that 20-year-old Kylie Jenner is on track to become the world’s youngest “self-made billionaire” has focused on the “self-made” element. Does someone who is born into a wealthy, well-connected, reality TV dynasty really qualify as “self-made” (presuming it’s not an oblique reference to Jenner’s allegedly copious amounts of plastic surgery )? Yet the second element of the claim warrants some scrutiny too. Is the valuation of her make-up company, which is the basis of the bulk of her $900m estimated wealth, sound? Recommended Kylie Jenner 'youngest self-made billionaire ever' Now she's almost a billionnaire, can we take Kylie Jenner …

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E rin Vogelpohl has tried mixing darker blues and greens into the decor of her five-bedroom house in Dallas, but they don’t play well with her 447,000 Instagram followers. So she sticks with a soft blush palette, the millennial pink that is ubiquitous on Instagram, and in her living room. For home-decor Instagram influencers like Vogelpohl, the house is the star. And tending to a star can be an all-consuming job, particularly when you live in it. Her account, @mytexashouse, and others like it have amassed tens of thousands of followers by cycling seemingly endless photographs of private living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Some have gained traction chronicling the restoration of an old home or the construction of a new one. A few dabble in areas like fashion , parenting , cooking and makeup, but they primarily peddle the infinite marketability of a home’s interior, with all its trappings. Hardwood floors glisten. Kitchens, with marble …

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement three days before this month's deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, that the rally was likely to be "among the most violent to date." According to a law enforcement assessment by the DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis, obtained by Politico , white supremacists and anti-fascist groups had clashed twice before in Charlottesville during the four months leading up to the rally on August 12, raising questions over whether the violence, in which counterprotester Heather Heyer died, could have been prevented. Related: Democrats and Republicans condemn Trump's remarks after Charlottesville violence The August 9 report compiled in coordination with local, state and federal authorities outlined how anarchist groups and extreme-right supporters had fought at a white nationalist rally on May 13 and a Ku Klux Klan gathering July 7. In both cases, according to the report, "anarchist extremists" attacked …

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sailed through her first primary challenge since being elected two years ago, all but securing her a second term in Congress. As of Wednesday morning, Ocasio-Cortez was in the lead with 73 percent of the vote. Her opponent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a longtime news anchor and former Republican, had garnered 19 percent of the vote in New York's 14th Congressional District. Although the final numbers from Tuesday's primary won't be known for several days, given the large number of absentee ballots used by voters to maintain public health amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press and other outlets called the race for Ocasio-Cortez late Tuesday night. Ocasio-Cortez celebrated the victory as proof her shocking 2018 upset win against 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley—which catapulted her into the national spotlight as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress—was no "fluke." "Tonight we are proving that the people's movement in NY isn't an …

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This story was originally published on Indian Country Today . The recent fatal shootings of Philando Castile by Officer Jeronimo Yanez in Minnesota and Alton Sterling by Officer Blane Salamoni in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were both caught on video, but demonstrations all over the country reflect the widely held opinion that the shooters will face no consequences. The protesters are probably right. All crimes are not equal. All homicides—cases where one human being kills another—are not equal. For example, some homicides are justified, and legal. When a convicted murderer is executed, the death certificate lists "homicide" as the cause, but the killing is legally (if not morally) justified and no investigation is necessary. Officer-involved shootings are often on the line that separates justified homicides from others, so they are investigated. That investigation is always unlike what is done for other homicides and so the fact that officer-involved shooting investigations often …

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