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Edinburgh residents hold Christmas talent show to bring together local community

"It is so important to do these events because it was a good way for all those in the community who haven’t been able to take part in events due to Covid to come together and create something special "

Edinburgh Live

ParalympicsGB chief delivers message after grabbing prestigious national UK Sport award

Phil Smith, ParalympicsGB's chef de mission for this year's Winter Games in Beijing, has been recognised for his work in China by winning UK Sport’s prestigious PLx Award for Spirit of High Performance

Wales Online

‘Not Covid’ lurgy spreading across Ireland as flu cases almost double within a week

People are reporting feeling unwell with symptoms similar to Covid, while testing negative. It comes as flu cases in Ireland have almost doubled within a week.

Irish Mirror

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Wang Tao: Key Takeaways From China’s Central Economic Work Conference

Stabilizing growth is the top priority, with measures to boost the real estate sector and a supportive tone for non-SOEs, foreign investors and online platforms

Caixin Global

The South Bristol family-run toyshop bringing magic to Christmas for the last six years

It's a treasure trove for children and adults

Bristol Post

New COVID Model Predicts over 1 Mln Deaths in China through 2023

China's abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the US-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). According to the group's projections, cases in China would peak around April 1, when deaths…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Red Ink awards: Barkha Dutt and Siddharth Varadarajan among winners

Mojo Story founder-editor Barkha Dutt and the Wire’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan were among several journalists awarded at the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink awards ceremony on Friday.

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Algerian President to Visit Moscow, Sign Strategic Partnership

Algeria and Russia are setting the stage to sign a strategic partnership agreement on economic and military affairs during President Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s upcoming visit to Moscow this month. In May 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his Algerian counterpart to visit Moscow, but the Covid-19 pandemic stopped him from making…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In COVID-hit Beijing, funeral homes and crematoriums are busy

Hearses bearing the dead lined the driveway to a designated COVID-19 crematorium in the Chinese capital on Saturday while workers at the city's dozen funeral homes were busier than normal, days after China reversed tight pandemic restrictions.

Reuters

New COVID model predicts over 1 million deaths in China through 2023

China's abrupt lifting of stringent COVID-19 restrictions could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023, according to new projections from the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

Reuters

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tests positive for COVID-19 a second time

CHICAGO — For a second time this year, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tested positive for COVID-19 and is working from home, she announced in a statement.

Chicago Tribune

Korean jab maker scouts Asean links

SEOUL: A South Korean company is looking for a business opportunity with partners from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to help develop the regional market for its Covid-19 vaccine.

Bangkok Post

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 17 December 2022

This man needs little introduction. He's a scoundrel who drank his own bath water. A gambling exemplar of modern techno-capitalism. And if we lived in a just society, Sam Bankman-Fried would be TIME magazine's Person of the Year.

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'As the NHS struggles the Tories should do everything they can to broker fair pay deal'

As the NHS battles with rising flu and Covid rates, its nurses have been forced to go out on strike to get a fair pay deal so the government should be doing all it can to broker a deal

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Los Angeles Times

‘A lot of viruses running around’: LA County hospital beds at lowest availability since pandemic began

LOS ANGELES — The number of available Los Angeles County hospital beds has fallen to its lowest level of the pandemic, the result not only of the enduring threat of COVID-19 and the reemergence of flu and RSV, but also the needs of a populace that put off nonemergency care.

AAP

ED perfect storm prompts Christmas plea

The Australian Medical Association has issued a plea to mask up and gather outdoors at Christmas as emergency departments face a perfect storm this summer.

Daily Record

Falkirk councillors back call for more funds as they face massive cash crisis

All parties agreed to back COSLA's Save Our Services campaign - but there was no agreement on where the blame lies

Tribune News Service

Silicon Valley’s economy trampled Austin, Seattle by billions of dollars during COVID’s first two years

Silicon Valley as an economic juggernaut has reigned supreme throughout the pandemic compared to its rivals in the Sunbelt and Pacific Northwest, newly released numbers show.

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The Canberra Times

Canberra's choice at ACT Volunteering awards rises above

Volunteering ACT acting CEO Susan Helyar said the event, in the Gandel Hall at the National Gallery, was also a chance to treat volunteers after a couple of tough years working in the face of bushfires and COVID.

Irish Mirror

Irish food truck company gets 130 outlets 'on the road' and turning over €25 million

The story of Streat School goes back to 2017 when Mr McCleary moved back to Ireland after a five-year trip around the world

Daily Mirror

Lord to be suspended for 9 months for promoting Covid firm that paid him £57k

Tory Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, who only sits in the Lords because of a 580-year-old deal with the King, ‘sought to profit’ from his membership - as did a Labour peer who faces a six-month suspension

The Guardian - UK

Dreaming of a Covid-free Christmas? How to stay safe over UK’s festive season

Cases are rising, but this year there aren’t any restrictions on how we party. We ask experts for their advice

France 24

Coping after Itaewon: South Koreans process tragedy of Halloween crowd crush

On October 29, a night when the streets of South Korea's capital Seoul were packed with Halloween revellers, 158 people were crushed to death in a narrow alley and nearly 200 others were injured. Most of the victims were in their twenties and thirties and had come to the popular…

Liverpool Echo

Train operator Northern would have lost more than £600m without Government subsidy

The operator has said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has not gone away

The Independent UK

China orders rural hospitals to prepare for migrants' return

China's Cabinet is ordering rural areas to prepare for the return of migrant workers for the holiday season in hopes of preventing a major surge in COVID-19 cases in communities with limited medical resources

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