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Unite, however, has written to the business secretary, Alok Sharma, and the work and pensions secretary, Thérèse Coffey, saying that the same places are among the most risky during the coronavirus pandemic and pointing out that many had been to forced to close. … [Read more...] about Unite calls for renewed HSE spot checks to reduce Covid-19 risk

The WHO has warned of disruption to routine immunisation activities during the pandemic because of strain on the health system and a “decreased demand for vaccination because of physical distancing requirements or community reluctance”. It says there is a high potential for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles at this time, but mass vaccinations bringing together large groups of people should be avoided. Countries should instead “maintain continuity of immunisation services wherever services can be conducted under safe conditions.” … [Read more...] about Higher flu vaccination rates could help expose new viruses like Covid-19 earlier, expert says

The relationship between Uighurs and Turkey stretches back centuries: once connected by the Silk Road, the peoples share a religion, cultural ties and similar Turkic languages. Uighur men who fought for the Ottoman empire rest in the vast second world war graveyards in Çanakkale, or Gallipoli; during the Communist revolution in China in the 1940s, the Turkish republic recognised the breakaway Uighur state of East Turkestan and opened its doors to refugees. … [Read more...] about ‘I miss my homeland’: fearful Uighurs celebrate Eid in exile in Turkey

The benefits are familiar web economics, and many see the transformation Spotify has in mind as mirroring the changes to the wider web that unfurled over the 2010s. “Podcasting feels like the web prior to the roll-up of power by Google and Facebook, with a lot of new voices, some very successful and most marginal, but quite authentic,” said Matt Stoller, author of Goliath, a history of monopolies. … [Read more...] about Spotify podcast deal could make Joe Rogan world’s highest paid broadcaster

Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, who indicted Netanyahu, filed police complaints this month over what he said were coordinated death threats. At the pro-Netanyahu protest, a sign had been erected on which the attorney general’s face had been cut and pasted on to the image of a man in jail. … [Read more...] about Benjamin Netanyahu appears in court on corruption charges