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Nurses, paramedics reach pay deal to end England strikes

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Unions representing hundreds of thousands of nurses, ambulance crews and other health care workers in England reached a deal Thursday to resolve months of disruptive strikes for higher wages, though the pact didn’t include doctors.The announcement came as early-career physicians spent a third day on picket lines and the day after U.K. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt announced a budget that included no , additional money for labor groups that have staged crippling strikes amid a punishing cost-of-living crisis and double-digit inflation.Under the deal negotiated by government officials and union leaders, workers would get a lump sum payment for the current year and a 5% raise next year. Any strike actions will be halted while rank-and-file members vote on whether to accept it.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the pact would reward hardworking National Health Service staff who persevered through the pandemic, and prevent further work stoppages.“This offer is good for NHS ...

Las mujeres que confeccionan trajes camuflados para los francotiradores ucranianos

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

KIEV – Casi cada día en un bloque de apartamentos del sureste de Kiev una decena de mujeres se reúne para confeccionar “kikímoras”, como se conocen en Ucrania los trajes a tiras de camuflaje que permiten a los francotiradores confundirse con el paisaje.“Hicimos el primero, nos lo probamos en los árboles del parque y lo mandamos al frente”, explica a EFE Julia Julaeva, la impulsora de la idea. “Los francotiradores nos dijeron que era fantástico y nos sugirieron algunas mejoras, como ponerle más tiras de saco y una goma para ajustar la capucha”, cuenta Julaeva.LOS TRAJES SON CONOCIDOS COMO “KIKÍMORAS”El éxito de la primera prueba llevó a Julaeva y a las demás iniciadoras del proyecto a intensificar la producción, y el grupo ya ha proporcionado al ejército de su país 175 trajes de camuflaje que pueden ser utilizados por los francotiradores pero también por los soldados que se echan al monte en misiones de reconocimiento.Vestidos con los trajes que hacen para ello...

Hamiton fears Mercedes is lagging behind 3 other F1 teams

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

Lewis Hamilton said Thursday his Mercedes team is so far off the pace at the start of the Formula One season that the seven-time champion needs three teams to fall out of a race just for him to have a chance to win. Red Bull dominated the season-opener in Bahrain two weeks ago with a 1-2 finish from two-time defending world champion Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. Fernando Alonso finished a surprising third for Aston Martin and Carlos Sainz Jr. was fourth for Ferrari. Hamilton was about 51 seconds behind Verstappen in fifth, while teammate George Russell finished 56 seconds back in seventh. Both finishes would have been worse had Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc’s engine not failed near the end of the race. “We’re not fighting for a (title). We need the Red Bulls not to finish the race, and the Ferraris not to finish the race and maybe now the Astons not to finish the race, for us to be winning at the moment,” Hamilton said ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.“None of u...

El Senado confirma que se filtraron datos privados de congresistas en la dark web

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

Información personal de miembros del Congreso “ya está en uno de los grandes sitios de piratas informáticos”, luego de que un incumplimiento de DC Health Link ocasionara la filtración de estos datos. En un correo electrónico a las oficinas del Senado, los miembros del personal del Comité de Inteligencia informaron que los datos están “fácilmente accesible para las personas que saben cómo buscarla” e “incluye nombre, dirección, número de Seguro Social, fecha de nacimiento, número de teléfono de escritorio”, información del plan de salud, entre otros.A principios de esta semana, la Autoridad de Intercambio de Beneficios de Salud de DC anunció la filtración afecta a más de 56,000 afiliados de los cuales 11,000 trabajan en la Cámara y el Senado federal.Asimismo, el FBI indicó el miércoles en un breve comunicado que está al tanto del incidente y que se involucrará en la investigación. DC Health Link es el mercado en línea de la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Baj...

March Madness 2023: Where to find deals in the DC area

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

March Madness — also known as the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament — is here.It’s a time of the year where fans in the D.C. region and all over the country watch their favorite college teams compete in the tournament, with the hope of winning the championship.They can just watch from the comforts of their own homes, or go to their local bars or restaurants to catch the action.More Local NewsMore Sports NewsHere is a list of March Madness deals in the region.Across the PondThe Irish pub, located north of D.C.’s Dupont Circle, is offering specials for March Madness, except for St. Patrick’s Day, including $20 domestic buckets of Miller Lite, Coors Light, Bud and Bud Light, $25 Michelob Ultra Seltzers and Mic Ultra buckets, and $4 ATP and Narragansett Drafts.Buffalo Wild WingsBuffalo Wild Wings has a reputation of being the “official chicken wing of March Madness.” They are offering six free boneless wings if a game goes into overtime at its D.C., Ma...

Photos: 2 arrested after front-door 'booby trap' injures visitor

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Two Highlands Ranch residents were arrested after an alleged "booby trap" they had set outside their front door injured another person.According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, on March 10 deputies received a report of someone being injured by a possible "booby trap." When deputies met with the victim, he told them that on March 9 at around 2 p.m. he was injured while conducting business on Ashburn Court. $20K reward for information on East Colfax homicide The victim told deputies that when he went up to the front door of a home on Ashburn Court, he heard a loud boom and looked down to see a wire was caught around his leg. The victim said he also suffered from pain in his ear and his vision was affected.According to the victim, he believed the wire had been suspended over one of the steps leading to the front door. The victim told deputies he was confronted by a white man who he had thought was the homeowner. Two Highlands Ranch residents wer...

Don’t celebrate a European financial rescue just yet

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

An emergency 50 billion Swiss Franc loan from the Swiss National Bank in the early hours of Thursday helped to pull one of Switzerland’s top banking institutions, Zurich-based Credit Suisse, from the brink of collapse.At first sight, the move proved a regulatory tour de force.When the bank’s shares opened for trading in the morning, they soared 40 percent, an apparent nod to the shrewdness of Eurocrats who had been saying all along this was not Europe’s crisis and that there was nothing to see here. From a regulatory point of view, the troubles at the Swiss lender had been brewing for years and had little to do with the factors that had taken down Californian tech lender Silicon Valley Bank a week earlier, prompting a radical Federal Reserve intervention at the weekend. What’s more, Credit Suisse had long been in the process of restructuring, dragged down by a series of unfortunate bets and scandals.The defiant regulatory mood was echoed by Christine Lagarde,...

5 things to know about Europe’s bid to stay in the clean energy race

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

The starting gun on the global clean energy race has long been fired — now Europe is finally getting out of the stalls.Two new proposals, unveiled by the European Commission on Thursday, are meant to set the bloc on track to meet its net-zero goals by shoring up its supply of green technologies and the critical raw materials needed to build them: the Net-Zero Industry Act and the Critical Raw Materials Act. Drafted in record-time, the proposals are part of the EU’s Green Deal Industrial Plan — the bloc’s response to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and its bonanza of green subsidies — and are seen as key to reining in the green industry’s global front-runner, China. “For too long,” Europe thought “the market would take of everything itself,” the EU’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said Thursday. “We now understand that the strategic choices China made a decade ago are now coming home to roost and we also have to make our ow...

Bad bonds risk bringing down banks, warns ‘Dr Doom’

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

The man who predicted the 2008 banking crisis has a new blip on his sonar screen: “underwater” bonds that he says make up a dangerously large chunk of the sector’s assets.Nouriel Roubini, professor emeritus at the Stern School of Business of New York University — a.k.a. Dr Doom — warned this fatal flaw in bondholdings, which lay at the heart of the sudden downfall of Silicon Valley Bank last week, could could cause any instability in the U.S. or European banking sectors to quickly spiral into a rout. Pension funds, asset managers and other large investors are also at risk, he warned.Markets are jittery after SVB collapsed last Friday, in the biggest bank failure since 2008. U.S. agencies scrambled to contain the damage, but banks’ share prices on both side of the Atlantic took a beating, with long-troubled Credit Suisse finding a new record low on Wednesday, prompting a lifeline intervention from the Swiss National Bank.Roubini zeroed in on the heart of the p...

NH gets disaster declaration following December storm

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:51:57 GMT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — President Joe Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for New Hampshire following damage caused by a severe storm and flooding that happened around Christmas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.Funding is available to the state, eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the storm in Belknap, Carroll, Coos and Grafton counties, FEMA said in a news release Wednesday.Funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.The storm damaged communities from Dec. 22-25. A combination of heavy snow and high winds downed trees and power lines, causing numerous power outages.Gov. Chris Sununu said a FEMA preliminary damage assessment totaled $3.1 million.“This disaster declaration will afford communities affected by the storm the opportunity to rebuild and recuperate costs incurred fixing the da...