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What to know about using ambulance services interstate when you're travelling Australia
5 months ago

What to know about using ambulance services interstate when you're travelling Australia

ABC  

For most Australians heading overseas, purchasing travel insurance to cover accidents or serious illness seems like a no-brainer. When travelling interstate, NT residents without ambulance membership, private health insurance with ambulance cover or travel insurance, face full fees. Travelling interstate, those without ambulance cover, or appropriate private health or travel insurance face full fees. WA residents without ambulance cover, private …

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Melbourne's Yarra City Council demands residents switch to plant-based diets to stop climate change
5 months, 1 week ago

Melbourne's Yarra City Council demands residents switch to plant-based diets to stop climate change

Daily Mail  

A city council has pushed its residents to become vegetarian as part of its plan to bring its suburbs back from 'the precipice of climate and ecological collapse'. Melbourne's Yarra City Council, responsible for big inner-city suburbs such as Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy, unanimously voted to pass its 81-page Climate Emergency Plan on Tuesday night. Yarra City Council unanimously voted …

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Aonla Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Dharmendra Kashyap Looking for Hat-Trick
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Aonla Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Dharmendra Kashyap Looking for Hat-Trick

News 18  

The Aonla Lok Sabha constituency is one of 80 parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Sitting MP — Dharmendra Kashyap Candidates — Dharmendra Kashyap, Neeraj Maurya, Abid Ali Political dynamics BJP: The saffron party has been winning Aonla since 2009, the year Maneka Gandhi wrested it from Janata Dal. The saffron party has to do at least as well in these …

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‘A ticking time bomb’: Why California can’t provide safe drinking water to all its residents
1 year, 2 months ago

‘A ticking time bomb’: Why California can’t provide safe drinking water to all its residents

LA Times  

In the Mojave Desert community of North Edwards, 5-year-old Adam Ezelle knows never to drink water from the tap, which contains dangerous levels of arsenic. With new regulations slated to take effect in the next few years, many systems will need to take urgent and proactive steps or “they’ll be out of compliance and be failing.” The crisis has cast …

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China's COVID-19 crisis and dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak
2 years, 7 months ago

China's COVID-19 crisis and dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak

Firstpost  

One of China’s largest cities, Shanghai, has been paralysed for the past month, with many of its residents hemmed in by hastily erected metal fences. But resolving China’s COVID dilemma and finding a route out of the pandemic is complicated by the difficulties of challenging a “zero-COVID” strategy so closely associated with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. Combining on-the-ground reports …

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There's Never Been A Good Argument Against D.C. Statehood
3 years, 7 months ago

There's Never Been A Good Argument Against D.C. Statehood

Huff Post  

Josh Burch remembers the exact moment he realized how absurd it is that Washington, D.C., isn’t a state. “John, I’ll give you D.C. abortion,” Obama reportedly told then-House Speaker John Boehner in a move that incensed the city’s political leadership and residents like Burch. “In-migration of free black people essentially stopped, and many longtime residents left the city,” historians Chris …

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Coronavirus UK: Rapid test trials miss over 50% of positive cases
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus UK: Rapid test trials miss over 50% of positive cases

Daily Mail  

WHAT IS OPERATION MOONSHOT AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN LIVERPOOL? But residents have today complained to MailOnline that asymptomatic and symptomatic people were not segregated as they queued at testing centres for their swab, potentially opening the door for the coronavirus to sp Photographer David Colbran, 51, said: 'It's a shambles, we booked an appointment to have a test …

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