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Continued cold with flurries possible tonight
Highs will stay in the middle and upper 30s with a strong southwest wind between 10-20 miles per hour for the afternoon. We stay cloudy tonight with a few flurries and lows near 30 in Milwaukee to 20 inland. A high of 0 Celsius is expected, with a wind chill of -8 C Monday morning. Low of 24°. Wind: NE 10-20 miles per hour. Clouds return on Saturday with cold rain and sleet changing... [Full Article...]
Korea's Daily COVID-19 Cases Surpass 1000 Again
At a daily task force meeting, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun called for officials to consider measures needed for implementing the highest-grade antiviral curbs. Officials have been trying to stem the spread of new infections through expanded testing and tracing, opening 150 makeshift testing centers in the Seoul area this week. [Full Article...]
Accomplices Found Guilty Of Aiding 2015 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks
The verdict was put on hold due to the Cornavirus pandemic and was delivered against a backdrop of renewed attacks in France . Also convicted were Coulibaly's old friends Amar Ramdani , Willy Prevost and Nezar Pastor Alwatik, who were also found guilty of "terrorist association", and given sentences of between 13 and 20 years. [Full Article...]
Paris fined for having too many women in senior government positions
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo denounced the fine as "unfair" and "absurd" on Tuesday during a meeting of the city council. Paris city authorities have been fined €90,000 for recruiting too many women into senior roles and breaching the country's rules around gender parity in public appointments. [Full Article...]
London to impose new coronavirus prevention measures amid rising infections
However, there is no evidence to suggest the mutations will cause more disease or more severe disease. The health secretary used a Downing Street press conference on Monday to warn of a rise in new cases and to move Greater London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire into the highest tier of restrictions, and risked further alarming the public by announcing the existence of a new strain and sug... [Full Article...]
Biden to pick Jennifer Granholm for energy secretary
Gina McCarthy, a former Environmental Protection Agency chief, gains Biden's nomination for the powerful new position of domestic climate chief. As governor of MI from 2003 to 2011, Granholm championed strong renewable energy standards for the state and has been a vocal advocate for solar and wind power as the engines of a clean energy economy. [Full Article...]
Ella Kissi-Debrah: Air pollution 'contributed to death of young girl'
Pollution levels exceeded legal limits every year of her life. Assistant Coroner Philip Barlow today delivered damning findings for politicians at national and local level, saying the young girl could possibly have been saved if more had been done to tackle the problem. [Full Article...]
Macron plans referendum on including climate change fight in French constitution
Addressing the Citizens' Conference for Climate, Macron said that this constitutional reform project must first approve both houses of parliament, which seems unlikely to happen due to the right's control of the Senate. Presidential elections are scheduled for the first half of 2022. Macron asked, also acknowledging that the country was not doing enough to tackle global warming, as it also misse... [Full Article...]