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Your to-go cocktails make it harder to enforce underage drinking laws

During the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of states have given a boost to struggling restaurants by allowing them to sell cocktails to-go, through takeout, curbside pickup or home delivery. But the expansion of alcohol to-go laws has placed a heavy burden on understaffed alcohol enforcement agencies, which have been hard-pressed to…

Tribune News Service

The Blackfeet Nation’s plight underscores the fentanyl crisis on reservations

BROWNING, Mont. — As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson and son.

Tribune News Service

As the pandemic ebbs, long-haul Covid still drains patients and confounds doctors

Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it

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Burned out by COVID and 80-hour workweeks, resident physicians unionize

In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, ran on fumes, working as many as 80 hours a week in the ICU. He was constantly petrified that he would catch the COVID-19 virus and guilt-ridden for not…

Tribune News Service

A hub for the village: how locals are buying up pubs at risk of closure

The rise of community pubs is slowing a long-term decline – and offering additional services like post offices and basic banking

The Guardian - UK

N. Korea Discusses Revising COVID Curbs, Outbreak ‘Improving’

Top North Korean officials discussed revising anti-epidemic restrictions on Sunday as they assessed the situation over the country's first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak was "improving", state media reported. A politburo meeting guided by leader Kim Jong Un "made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Beijing, Shanghai ease COVID restrictions as outbreaks fade

Shoppers are returning to the malls of Beijing as the Chinese capital relaxes pandemic restrictions after declaring a small but persistent COVID-19 outbreak effectively under control

The Independent UK

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Indian startups continued to create wealth even during COVID: PM Modi

PM Modi said the average annual growth rate of Indian unicorns is more than that of the U.S., the U.K.

The Hindu

Chinatowns more vibrant after pandemic, anti-Asian violence

Cultural and arts organizations in Chinatowns across North America have worked for decades on bringing greater appreciation and visibility to these communities

The Independent UK

Colombians to vote for president amid generalized discontent

As Colombians emerge from the pandemic to find increasing inequality, inflation and violence, they will pick their next president Sunday from a pool of six men who are all promising various degrees of change amid a generalized sense that the country is headed in the wrong direction

The Independent UK

North Korea says pandemic situation being controlled and is improving

The pandemic situation in North Korea is being controlled and is improving, state media Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday, citing a meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un. Officials reported the latest number of daily “fever” cases rose by 980.

Tribune News Service

Resident physicians unionize in Calif.

These trainees are banding together in California and other states to demand higher wages and better benefits

Salon

About a third cut smoking for Covid fear, as many took it up

MUMBAI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown affected smokers in a diverse manner. While nearly a third of smokers interviewed for a national survey said they either cut down smoking or thought of quitting, fearing Covid-19 would severely affect them, another one-third increased smoking due to "loneliness" and "boredom" brought…

The Times of India

Pandemic led to an uptick in demand for drones: ideaForge

‘Fear of exposure while deploying manpower elevated need’

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Glasgow Live

Waverely casts off from Glasgow for first trip 'Doon the Watter' in milestone year for steamer

In just under three weeks the iconic steamship will celebrate the 75th anniversary of her maiden voyage. This summer Waverley will leave her home waters on the Firth of Clyde for the first time since before the pandemic.

Edinburgh Live

Scotrail scraps promised weekend timetable as driver shortages continue

The current driver shortages are being attributed to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, Scotrail is now battling trade unions as the situation threatens to escalate into industrial action

Liverpool Echo

Big plans for new cinema and more to ‘inject new life’ into town

There were fears the pandemic would cause the plan to be scrapped

The Independent UK

Pandemic has lingering toll on smaller National Spelling Bee

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is back, fully in person at its usual venue outside Washington for the first time since 2019

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Reform council submits recovery-focused proposals / Changes to medical system proposed to address flaws seen during pandemic

The Council for Regulatory Reform has compiled a set of proposals calling for improvements to online medical services and the lifting of a ban on sales of coronavirus antigen test kits at drugstores, aimed at reducing the burden on medical institutions amid the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Moroccan Minister of Culture Announces Program of Int’l Book and Publishing Fair

Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture, and Communication Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid announced the program of the 27th edition of the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat between June 3 and 12. The 2021 edition of the event was not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s health restrictions. The event…

Nottingham Post

Council gives 'vital' loan as £970,000 sports building in East Leake hits funding snag

The project hit a financial snag amid rising construction costs due to the coronavirus pandemic

Glasgow Live

Covid memorial opens at Pollok Park as bereaved families share their memories

A national covid memorial has been opened in Glasgow's Pollok Park. Dozens of people attended the opening to share memories of those who lost their lives during the pandemic.

Daily Record

Kids to detail experiences of Covid in new exhibition in South Ayrshire as youngsters to recount loss, lockdown and remote learning

'Our Pandemic' will showcase youngsters' experiences of living through Covid-19, told via stories, drawings and images.

The Times of India

Cases of mental illness up 67% from pre-pandemic times

Indore: Indore district has reported a 67% jump in cases (patients number) related to mental illness in the last fiscal year (2021-22) in comparison to pre pandemic level.

The Independent UK

Thousands to gather in Belfast to mark centenary of Northern Ireland

The event to mark the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, organised by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, comes a year late due to the pandemic.

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