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Airlines axe more flights during summer owing to staff shortages and airport issues

Latest blow for passengers with thousands of flights axed in recent months because of disruption in aftermath of the pandemic

Wales Online

Road accidents: dramatic drop in Dumfries and Galloway

Figures show a 60 per cent drop between 2016 and 2020

Daily Record

More than 300,000 incidents of fly-tipping recorded across the North during covid

Podcast The North in Numbers explored the spike in cases during the pandemic

Liverpool Echo

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Businesses pin hopes on foreign tourists as Japan set to reopen border

TOKYO: Japan's businesses are pinning hopes on an inbound tourism recovery as the country resumed the process of accepting foreign tourists for the first time since suspending it more than two years ago due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangkok Post

Eurozone interest rates to rise for first time in a decade

The European Central Bank (ECB) will raise interest rates next month for the first time in 11 years in a bid to control soaring inflation, ending a stimulus scheme to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

Japan starts visa process for restart of tourism as Covid worries wane

HONG KONG: Japan on Friday resumed visa procedures to accept foreign tourists, taking the first step toward increasing inbound tourism to help turn around its economy as worries about the Covid-19 pandemic wane.

Bangkok Post

Lit talks about returning to rock again with new album ‘Tastes Like Gold’

ANAHEIM, Calif. — During the early days of the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Lit began working on new music.

The Orange County Register

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Mortality gap between red, blue counties

Curiously, the "mortality gap" between red and blue counties was evident long before the pandemic began

Salon

UK Plans to Burn Billions in Wasted Pandemic Protective Gear

The British government plans to burn billions of pounds (dollars) in unusable personal protective equipment purchased in haste during the coronavirus pandemic, a public spending watchdog said Friday. The idea of burning the facemasks, gowns and other equipment to generate power has not impressed the watchdog committee.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a half-open border (1/4)

The migration crisis, the rise of nationalism and the Covid-19 pandemic have put borders back in the headlines. Although frontiers had never disappeared, globalisation and modern forms of transport had seemed to render them obsolete, at least in many regions. FRANCE 24 brings you a documentary series on four borders…

France 24

Commentary: Gen Z, millennials and Gen X all basically agree on work from home

During the early days of the pandemic, the narrative was that remote-working was a grind for younger workers stuck in cramped apartments and bliss for their seniors living it up in airy home offices. The juniors were missing out on in-person learning, while their superiors were more focused on how…

Tribune News Service

UK plans to burn billions in wasted pandemic protective gear

The British government plans to burn billions of dollars in unusable protective equipment purchased during the coronavirus pandemic

The Independent UK

Government must ‘learn lesson’ over Covid laws, demands Tory MP

The government has come under fire from a senior backbencher for failing to respond to an investigation into the Covid laws while the Partygate scandal has raged in Westminster.

Evening Standard

More states are allowing students to take mental health days off

While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them.

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The Independent UK

China calls COVID 'lab leak' theory a lie after WHO report

China has attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie

Birmingham Post

New chairs for Birmingham Publicity Association

City trade body appoints new leadership as it returns to post-pandemic networking

Bangkok Post

Thailand to go slow with rate hikes as pandemic drag lingers

A shift by Thailand's central bank to a more hawkish footing this week stunned markets and appeared to finally end policymakers' tolerance for mounting price pressures, but a range of risks are likely to keep any tightening gradual.

Daily Record

Stewartry RFC set to celebrate 50th anniversary with Party on the Pitch

Three bands and a DJ will perform at Saturday's celebrations, which have been delayed from 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic

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The Times of India

British deputy high commission celebrates Queen's birthday in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: The British deputy high commission in Bengaluru hosted its annual Queen’s Birthday Party (QBP) on Thursday, after a gap of two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National (Scotland)

Will the cost of living crisis spark a revival in the trade union movement?

BANK of England governor Andrew Bailey caused a stir when he told workers in February that he wanted to see them showing “quite clear restraint”…

The Hindu

COVID origin | WHO says it’s unclear but lab leak theory needs study

That stance marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency's initial assessment of the pandemic's origins

The Conversation

As winter bites, NZ urgently needs a COVID action plan for schools – here’s how to do it

With protections against COVID-19 transmission incomplete in early 2022, the government’s policy of keeping schools open through the Omicron outbreak has left communities exposed to widespread infection and disrupted learning.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Caribbean leaders not quite ready to reject fossil fuels as the US pushes climate pact

LOS ANGELES — The secretary-general of the 15-member Caribbean Community opened talks Thursday with the Biden administration over a new partnership to tackle climate change and the region’s energy crisis by making it clear that Caribbean nations were not quite ready to give up fossil fuels.

The Guardian - UK

£4bn of NHS COVID PPE to be burned as it is unusable, says committee report

Opposition parties say the findings show the Conservatives are ‘burning taxpayers money by the billion’

The Independent UK

Government plan to burn £4bn of PPE ‘costly to environment and Treasury’

The Public Accounts Committee has asked the Department of Health and Social Care to clarify its proposal, including predicted costs.

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