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China's Xi Promises $50 Billion For Africa Over Next Three Years

Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday pledged over $50 billion in financing for Africa over the next three years, promising to deepen cooperation in infrastructure and trade with the continent as he addressed Beijing's biggest summit since the pandemic.

International Business Times

House Republicans Subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Over Fraud Investigation

House Republicans subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz over 0 million fraud scheme involving Feeding Our Future nonprofit during COVID-19 pandemic.

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How the pandemic turned global film director into a true Novocastrian

The Boy Swallows Universe filmmaker 'fell in love' with Australia.

Newcastle Herald

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Republican-led House panel subpoenas Tim Walz over $250m Covid relief fraud

Minnesota governor has conceded state education officials did insufficient due diligence to prevent scheme

The Guardian - US

Booking Stock Downgraded As Jefferies Expects Slower Travel Growth

Booking stock was downgraded to neutral, as analysts expect travel growth to "normalize" after a post-pandemic surge.

Investors Business Daily

Humans infecting animals infecting humans − from COVID-19 to bird flu, preventing pandemics requires protecting all species

When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans had been the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses pointed to horseshoe bats as the evolutionary hosts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, no reports had yet surfaced indicating…

The Conversation

Preparing for a pandemic that never came ended up setting off another − how an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu’

Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly tested positive for an H1N1 swine influenza virus.

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Australia’s economy posts worst performance since 1992, excluding pandemic

Gross domestic product declines 1.5 percent on per capita basis following successive interest rate hikes.

Al Jazeera

Canada turning away more foreigners amid rise in anti-immigration sentiment

Ratio of refused visitor visas to approved ones was higher in recent months than any point since height of the pandemic

The Guardian - US

Former NY Gov. Cuomo To Testify Publicly Before Congress

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo set to testify before Congress on controversial nursing home advisory during Covid-19 pandemic.

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How to fight when MAGA comes to town

In "Chaos Comes Calling," Sasha Abramsky shows how ugly national politics hurt local communities — and how to heal

Salon

Former NY Gov. Cuomo To Testify Before Congress On Nursing Home Advisory

Former NY Governor Cuomo set to testify publicly before Congress on controversial nursing home advisory during Covid-19 pandemic.

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10,000 US hotel workers strike over Labor Day weekend

Workers walk off the job in eight US cities over pandemic-era cost-cutting measures.

Al Jazeera

More than 10,000 US hotel workers strike on Labor Day weekend

Staff demand wage increases and reversal of pandemic-era cutbacks that impose ‘painful’ working conditions

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Hotel Workers Authorize Strikes Over Daily Room Cleaning Dispute

Hotel workers in the U.S. face challenges in labor disputes over daily room cleaning and better working conditions amidst the pandemic.

The Independent UK

Strikes start at top hotel chains during Labor Day weekend as housekeepers seek higher wages

Hotel housekeepers have for years waged a fierce battle to restore automatic daily room cleaning that was scaled back at many properties during the pandemic

AAP

Economy yet to turn a corner as higher rates bite

Australia is expected to post its slowest annual economic growth rate outside of the pandemic lockdowns since the 1990s as inflation persists.

Salon

Harris has divided the grocery industry

While one of the country's largest grocery unions has endorsed Harris, corporate supermarket leaders have concerns

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‘Scandalous’ £3.4bn UK state spending on private consultants last year

New figures reveal that public bodies paid out at least 60% more to consultancies in 2023-24 than it did pre-pandemic

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The Last of Us and redemption: finding hope, light and God in the apocalyptic darkness

With a catastrophic fungal pandemic creating the “infected”, a post-apocalypse breakdown of society, and a moral quest amidst humans hunting humans, PlayStation game and HBO TV phenomenon The Last of Us has exhilarated and terrified millions of gamers and viewers.

The Conversation

Home education: why are so many parents choosing it over mainstream school?

There has been a notable rise in parents choosing to home educate their children over recent years, and particularly since the COVID pandemic.

International Business Times UK

Building Empires After Job Loss: How These Young Women Made Millions Post-Pandemic

Young women who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic turned adversity into opportunity by building successful million-dollar businesses.

The Guardian - US

US repeating Covid mistakes with bird flu as spread raises alarm, experts say

Public health experts warn ‘overinflated view of abilities’ and restrictive laws could make next outbreak more lethal

The Independent UK

Why Black students are still disciplined at higher rates: Takeaways from AP's report

Racial disparities in how schools discipline students received new attention at the outset of a national reckoning with racial injustice, but the results of reform efforts have been slow to materialize

The Independent UK

10 years after Ferguson, Black students still are kicked out of school at higher rates

In the decade since Black Lives Matter, a spotlight has shined on inequity in education outcomes and, in particular, how exclusionary discipline disproportionately affects Black children

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