Pig farmers warn they will have to destroy ‘perfectly healthy’ animals after shortage of workers leaves 70,000 stranded on farms as supply chain crisis grips Britain National Pig Association warned that issue was a growing problem for farmers  Surplus pigs are costly to farmers due to penalty charges levied by processors Comes as a Bella Italia in Leicester Square ran […]

Fury over plans to vaccinate children against Covid as parents demand final say ‘to stop youngsters being peer-pressured into inappropriate decisions’ – as Boris Johnson wants NHS to ‘crack on’ with plan to jab all over-12s within a fortnight Senior Government source said the PM Boris ‘wants to crack on’ with programme to vaccinate children Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation […]

Bogota: Tribes from the Amazon have called for urgent action to protect the world’s largest rainforest in a formal motion to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to be considered at its global congress in France next month. The Coordinating Body for Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), an IUCN member, wants the forum to vote in […]

TWO people have allegedly died and others were injured as gunfire erupted outside of an Illinois courthouse. The shooting took place between the courthouse and the jail at around 9.45am on Thursday morning. According to reports, others were injured, however, the amount or their condition has not yet been confirmed. One witness told the Daily Journal that she took pictures […]

The NFL has relaxed certain COVID-19 protocols for vaccinated players this season. Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians, however, isn’t having it. “There’s league rules, and then there’s my rules,” Arians said Wednesday, via ESPN’s Jenna Laine. “We ain’t going anywhere. We’re the same as last year. “I don’t give a crap if they’re vaccinated or not. They ain't going […]

British Army Gurkha, 32, is found not guilty of sexually assaulting female medic after claiming he was trying to keep warm on winter exercise Cpl Basanta Ale Magar cleared of grabbing colleague’s underwear and breast Prosecutor claimed he ‘manipulated’ female medic into moving closer to her Bulford Court Martial cleared the Corporal of the lone sexual assault charge A British […]

A Sydney man arrested in Iraq over a dispute between his employer and the Iraq Central Bank has been sentenced to five years’ prison and fined $12 million. Robert Pether, who had been working for an engineering company on the new bank headquarters in Baghdad for the past four years, was arrested in Iraq on April 7, about a week […]

HANOI, Vietnam — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she raised issues of human rights abuses and restrictions on political activism in her conversations with Vietnamese leaders this week, but offered no indication those talks bore fruit. “We’re not going to shy away from difficult conversations. Difficult conversations often must be had with the people that you otherwise may […]

Recruitment firm says strength of recovery has been dramatic as economy bounces back from Covid crisis Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Last modified on Thu 26 Aug 2021 04.16 EDT A “dramatic” recovery in the jobs market has led to wage inflation and shortages of qualified workers in some industries, according to the UK recruiter Hays. […]

Baby girl born on evacuation plane after her mother fled Afghanistan is named Reach after the aircraft’s code name Reach’s mother went into labor while the US military plane was flying her family from Qatar to a US military base in Germany The baby’s mother was having complications during the flight, so the aircraft commander descended in altitude to increase air […]