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How Shiite Islam reached Tanzania, and Ashoura processions became an annual tradition

Each year, the largest contemporary Muslim pilgrimage takes place in Iraq to remember Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson. Before the pandemic, this event reportedly drew more than 30 million people, but in recent years participation declined to more than 14 million. This procession from Najaf to Karbala, where Hussein…

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Biosafety legislation gets politicized

COVID-19 has polarized conversations about lab safety. Pushes for more oversight are increasingly from Republicans

Salon

Law firm Clarke Willmott reports revenue rise as it moves to hybrid working

The national firm said more than 95% of its staff across Birmingham Bristol, Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Taunton had said they were now working ‘more effectively’ than before the Covid-19 pandemic

Birmingham Post

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Paisley Salvation Army is holding craft fayre to raise money

Organisers are looking forward to hosting their first event since the pandemic

Daily Record

Quantifying an "alarming" teacher shortage

10% of teaching positions were unfilled in the majority of school districts at the start of this year.

Axios

Axios-Ipsos poll: Americans are ready to roll credits on the pandemic

They don't think it's over, but their perception of risk is at a low point.

Axios

COVID-19 | Centre couldn’t accurately anticipate gravity of pandemic resurgence, subsequent waves: Parliamentary panel

Parliamentary panel recommends audit of ‘deaths due to oxygen shortage’

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Pressure builds on Japan to return to unrestricted tourism by end of month

Businesses want prime minister Fumio Kishida to loosen restrictions to help the world’s third-biggest economy recover from the pandemic

The Guardian - AU

Support continues while isolation required

Pandemic leave payments could be extended for Australians who are forced to stay at home under state and territory health isolation directives.

AAP

‘The strain is the worst of my lifetime’: how Bill Gates is staying optimistic

Covid and Ukraine war were major setbacks in pursuit of global development goals, philanthropist admits, but cutting back on aid would be ‘tragic’

The Guardian - UK

China's Xi heads abroad to promote strategic role

President Xi Jinping is using his first trip abroad since the start of the pandemic to promote China's strategic ambitions at a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group

The Independent UK

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicates support for extension of pandemic leave payments

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has all but confirmed he will support a push for emergency pandemic leave payments to be extended.

ABC News

Emmys 2022: Winners from the 74th annual prime-time TV awards

The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards returned to Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater for the first time since 2019 on Monday, upended for three years by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribune News Service

Food insecurity during COVID-19: 2SLGBTQ+ people talk about challenges and support

Many people grow up without enough food to eat, even within Canada; a G7 country with one of the world’s most advanced economies. The Government of Canada defines food insecurity as the “inability to acquire or consume” a diet that is adequate in quality and quantity, or “the uncertainty that…

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Five reasons why young people should get a COVID booster vaccine

Vaccination has played a substantial role in reducing the impact of COVID across the globe, and allowed life in most countries to gradually return to something like how we remember it before the pandemic. Researchers estimate that tens of millions of lives have been saved thanks to COVID vaccines.

The Conversation

The cost of living crisis will hit schools hard

Schools, like homes and businesses, are facing a financial squeeze over coming months. Spiralling inflation and rising staff costs are set to threaten England’s schools just as they are getting back to an even keel after the pandemic.

The Independent UK

Thousands of Minnesota nurses launch 3-day strike over pay

Thousands of nurses in Minnesota have launched a three-day strike over pay issues and understaffing worsened by the strains of the coronavirus pandemic

The Independent UK

Queen ‘moved with the times’ with video calls during pandemic

The Queen carried out numerous virtual visits during the Covid-19 crisis.

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The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: Safety, mental health among top school concerns

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Benzinga

Companies Froze Dividends In Covid-Stricken 2020: A Few Didn't Bring Them Back. Here's When They Might.

Looking back on March 2020, there was a flood of companies that suspended dividends due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As many corporations took substantial losses, they had no choice but to stop shareholder distributions until further notice.

Evening Standard

Heathrow passenger numbers down 5% as summer chaos and cost of living bite

Figures have improved on 2021, but are still below pre-pandemic levels

The Independent UK

Conservative Muslims protest Indonesian fuel price hikes

Hundreds of conservative Muslims have marched in Indonesia’s capital demanding that the government revoke its decision to raise fuel prices, saying it hurts people already reeling from the economic impact of the pandemic

Reuters

Fight against AIDS, TB and malaria bounced back post-COVID - but not enough

(Corrects to clarify data is from 2022 report, covering 2021 data)

The Independent UK

Xi to visit central Asia in 1st trip abroad since pandemic

China’s leader Xi Jinping will travel to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan starting Wednesday in his first trip abroad since the early days of the pandemic

Birmingham Post

Universities need to get a handle on digital transformation

The pandemic suggests that universities have been largely ineffective at coping with the pace of digital

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