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Crowds flock to Sydney for biggest New Year's Eve celebrations since pandemic began

Many of the city's spectacular ticketed vantage points sold out well ahead of tonight's celebrations, which will have a special focus on Indigenous art and World Pride events in 2023.

ABC News

Making peace with Covid

People should usher in the New Year free of concern about a severe new wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as the public is by now largely immune to the virus and life is slowly returning to usual, according to a virus expert.

Bangkok Post

Inflation and recession

Central banks across the world have simultaneously hiked interest rates to tame runaway inflation in 2022. Yet the trajectory of interest-rate increases and other policy actions may not be sufficient to bring global inflation back down to levels seen before the pandemic.

Bangkok Post

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The Pandemic Was a Disaster for Housing Affordability. 2023 Might Be a Little Better.

Rents and home prices skyrocketed almost everywhere over the past two years. There's some hope new supply will bring costs down in the new year.

Reason

Republicans prepare to reopen the House gallery to the public

WASHINGTON — After nearly three years of pandemic- and insurrection-related security restrictions, tourists next week will be allowed into the House gallery, and unescorted visitors on official business will be able to enter House office buildings.

Tribune News Service

Ashley Bloomfield one of six new knights and dames in New Year Honours

The health boss who led the country's pandemic response is one of the recipients of the country's top honours.

Newsroom.co.nz

These are the stocks that kept investors up at night in 2022

It’s been a year of historic selloffs for U.S. equities.

Tribune News Service

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Italy prison suicides spike as post-COVID misery lingers

Suicides in Italian jails have jumped to a 10-year high, the national ombudsman for prisoners said on Friday, noting that three years of the COVID-19 pandemic had made inmates' lives even more miserable.

Reuters

The Week Ahead: How did holiday hiring and pay hold up amid the tech layoffs?

November was a chilly month for jobs, relatively speaking, of course. “Only” 263,000 new jobs were created by employers. That was the slowest pace of adding payroll costs in almost two years. (Yes, it is best to put quotes around the word only in that last sentence because a month…

Miami Herald

How Ireland's new Chief Medical Officer is already preparing for the next pandemic

Breda Smyth, who became CMO in October after Dr Tony Holohan stepped aside, said it was an 'absolute privilege' to take on the role

Irish Mirror

Atlantic City betting it can put COVID behind it in 2023

Atlantic City's casinos are betting they can finally put the COVID pandemic behind them in 2023

The Independent UK

Edinburgh healthy life expectancy statistics 'paint a very worrying picture'

Edinburgh men are spending a smaller proportion of their life in good health, while local women remain healthier for longer, new National Records of Scotland statistics show.

Edinburgh Live

Justin Fox: The pandemic drinking binge just keeps going

The arrival of COVID-19 and the societal disruptions that accompanied it understandably drove a lot of Americans to drink. But even as life has returned to more or less normal this year, the drinking binge has continued — which isn’t great news for anybody other than the makers and sellers…

Tribune News Service

Millions of benefit claimants set for £700 payment in landmark court case

It comes after claims that some pandemic-related increases to benefits were 'discriminatory'

Wales Online

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Naomi Ishisaka: Proliferation of GoFundMes reveals a dirty little open secret

This time of year, we find ourselves touched by the generosity, grace and kindness of people helping people.

Reuters

Few tourists, deserted streets in casino hub Macau after reopening

Three years of COVID-19 forced Becky Zhang’s specialty food business in Macau to near collapse. Founded by her grandmother more than fifty years ago, her store selling pastries and dried beef only survived thanks to residents who bought small quantities to help keep them afloat.

Newslaundry

PCI body recommends no govt ads for Star of Mysore over editorial targeting Muslims

Calling it “journalism of the worst kind”, the Press Council of India is set to censure the Mysuru daily Star of Mysore for an editorial referring to Muslims as “bad apples” in April 2020.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow nurse quits job for road trip to help animal shelters with husband

Jen Stuchlak was a nurse during the coronavirus pandemic and her husband Joey had a vinyl wrapping business. They ditched their jobs to embark on a road trip, helping animal shelters along the way.

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Mental health issues are ‘parallel pandemic’ that NHS is not equipped to tackle, leaders warn

‘We’ve really got to address the significant, unmet need for care’

Bangkok Post

Pressure from land levy

The government's plan to reintroduce the full levy for the land and building tax in the 2022 tax year has hoteliers concerned, following a 90% reduction of the tax granted to property owners during the pandemic years.

Bangkok Post

Big tech back to real tech in 2023

The tech bubble has finally popped. Big Tech's expansion during the pandemic sparked a rush of over-hiring and preposterous valuations among tech startups, leading to a sharp correction at the end of 2022.

Wales Online

Matt Hancock's Covid book flops as sales plummet

Matt Hancock's Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle Against Covid was released in time for Christmas

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2 COVID-19 Stocks That Are Still Strong Buys

Given that COVID-19 is here to stay for the foreseeable future, investors could still benefit from their investments in companies that saw record-breaking sales during the pandemic’s height because of the effectiveness of their products in fighting the virus. With the potential resurgence of COVID-19 in several countries, Pfizer (PFE)…

The New Daily

Inflation raises retirement concerns, but there are actions to take to enhance your super

The effects of the pandemic have dinted views on how much they are likely to have to retire on, according to AMP's Financial Wellness survey.

Daily Record

Falkirk's £500,000 food programme 'will leave a strong legacy'

An independent report found Falkirk's Food Futures money from the UK Government helped to 'life communities out of the pandemic'

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