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Was Censorship the Greatest COVID Threat to Freedom?

It wasn't just autocrats who were frequently tempted to address "fake news" about the pandemic through state pressure and coercion.

Reason

Buckingham Palace Parties Return, Without Queen Elizabeth

Members of the British royal family will stand in for Queen Elizabeth when the traditional garden parties return this summer at Buckingham Palace, her office said on Thursday. Mobility issues have meant that the 96-year-old monarch has been forced to cut back on public engagements, and the Palace said members…

Asharq Al-Awsat

120k of these pennies are in circulation; do you have one in your pocket?

Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

WEKU

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The jobless Americans chasing the dream of ‘passive income’

Workers say they’re replacing career ambitions with low-stakes side hustles. But are many of the schemes too good to be true?

The Guardian - US

Spain's tourist arrivals jump 8-fold in March, edge toward pre-COVID levels

Spain received 4 million tourists in March, more than eight times as many as in the same month last year, after most pandemic-related restrictions were lifted, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed on Thursday.

Reuters

Zalando Posts First Decline in Sales Since Founding

Zalando posted a decline in sales for the first time since the German online fashion retailer was founded, leading it to dim its outlook for 2022 on Thursday. First-quarter sales fell by 1.5%, to 2.2 billion euros ($2.33 billion), after posting a 46.8% increase in the same quarter last year…

Asharq Al-Awsat

NHS staff anger at blitz of hospital parking tickets with one given 10 fines

NHS staff at Hull's hospitals have complained at a blitz of parking tickets that they have been receiving. Many say they have been given wrongly in a bid to "claw back money lost"

Daily Mirror

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Italy relaxes Covid-19 travel restrictions and here’s all you need to know

With things slowly and steadily returning to normal post Covid-19 pandemic, Italy too, like many countries across the globe, has relaxed Covid-19 travel restrictions.

The Times of India

‘We are already at zero’: Italian resort counts cost as Russian visits dry up

Covid pandemic and invasion of Ukraine have brought sudden halt to years of flourishing business in Calabrian town of Scalea

The Guardian - UK

WA reaches COVID-19 milestone as number of new cases surges past 10,000

Western Australia reports 10,182 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number of daily cases in the state since the pandemic began.

ABC News

Action urged on export ban

Thailand is joining 53 member countries to propose the World Trade Organization (WTO) address export bans on food and agricultural products after members who are net food importers raised concerns about food shortages based on the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.

Bangkok Post

Victoria passes 3,000 COVID-19 deaths as families remember those they've lost during the pandemic

Victoria's COVID-19 deaths in the first four months of 2022 have almost outstripped the rest of the pandemic combined, with families still grieving the human cost of the pandemic.

ABC News

US quietly expands asylum limits while preparing to end them

Officials say the Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers that deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it

The Independent UK

The untold story of chronic pain

Author Haider Warraich tells the story of chronic pain in his new book, "The Song of Our Scars"

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Bangkok Post

Panel seeks delay of PDPA enforcement

The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) is calling for the postponement of full enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), scheduled to come into force on June 1, because businesses are unprepared to comply, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that remain stymied by economic…

The Independent UK

Charles thanks pharmacists for dedication during the pandemic

Hosting a reception for the National Pharmacy Association, Charles praised their work on the vaccination programme.

The Conversation

A burnt-out health workforce impacts patient care

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve heard much about health-care worker burnout. But what we haven’t heard much about is its effects on patients.

The Conversation

Australia is missing 500,000 migrants, but we don't need visa changes to lure them back

COVID-19 travel restrictions brought migration to Australia to a virtual standstill, and over the course of the pandemic about 500,000 temporary migrants have left our shores. Now many Australian businesses are screaming out for more workers.

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Los Angeles Times

‘We’re now into our sixth wave’: Coronavirus gains in California spark new concerns

SAN FRANCISCO — Coronavirus cases are continuing to increase in California, prompting one health official to warn that the state is heading into the next wave of the pandemic.

The Hindu

The workers hit the hardest

Women and salaried workers have been affected the most by the pandemic in India

Mic

“You not having fun” TikToks are making space for our post-pandemic malaise

We, the people, are disappointed.

The Independent UK

Biden says Olympians brought a bit of unity to weary nation

President Joe Biden praised Team USA for bringing a bit of unity to a pandemic weary nation as he hosted a White House celebration Wednesday with about 600 athletes from this year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing and the coronavirus-delayed Summer Games held in 2021 in Tokyo

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s population growth will soon return to pre-pandemic levels, experts say

Tuesday’s state budget forecasts numbers of skilled migrants and international students will reach previous levels by mid-2024

Benzinga

'Pent-Up Demand Driving Strength': Airbnb Analysts React To Q1 Earnings Beat

Airbnb Inc (NASDAQ: ABNB) shares traded higher by 4.9% on Wednesday after the company reported big first-quarter earnings growth and said it expects a sharp rebound in summer travel in 2022 as pandemic headwinds abate.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow Election 2022: What the parties are promising to do about bins

The city's SNP group has said the pandemic caused many of the cleansing challenges in recent years but opposition councillors claimed they were due to cuts to services.

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