Por desgracia, prácticamente todas las mujeres del mundo están familiarizadas con una incómoda sensación al caminar solas. No importa si es a plena luz del día o en la noche, cerca de casa o en un área desconocida, muy seguido el aparentemente simple procedimiento de llegar a algún lugar nos provoca mucha inquietud. Para combatir esta situación, se desarrolló una app israelí llamada SafeUP, la cual permite a las mujeres iniciar sesión y ser acompañadas de manera virtual o físicamente al lugar deseado, por una voluntaria capacitada; se sienten a salvo al saber que hay seguridad en números. La idea de esta…
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CANBERRA, Australia — The Scott Morrison government is under fresh pressure over its vaccine rollout after Australian state leaders warned against younger people taking the AstraZeneca shot. Prime Minister Morrison has highlighted a path for any adult to receive the jab after talking to their General Practitioner about the risks of extremely rare blood clots. But state premiers and chief health officers are warning against ignoring advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunization. It is not recommended for people under 60 to receive AstraZeneca, with Pfizer the preferred vaccine for that age group. Australian Medical Association president Omar Khorshid said the…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian residential property prices rose 13.5 percent over the 2020/21 financial year, the highest annual growth rate since 2004 and when the market was unwinding from the housing boom of the early 2000s. The CoreLogic home value index rose 1.9 percent in June, with prices rising in all capital cities, led by a three percent gain in Hobart. Over the year, house prices rose 15.6 percent, compared to units that increased by 6.8 percent. Darwin posted the highest annual rate in dwelling values, increasing by 21 percent, followed by a 19.6 percent rise in Hobart. CoreLogic head of…
PERTH, Australia — A four-day lockdown in Western Australia is on track to finish on schedule after the state recorded no new coronavirus cases. More than two million people in Perth and the Peel region are under lockdown until 12.01 am on July 3 after local cases of the Delta variant were detected. About 15,800 people got swabbed on June 30, a result Premier Mark McGowan described as “amazingly encouraging” while urging further testing. Mark McGowan is an Australian Labor Party politician who has been Premier of Western Australia since 17 March 2017. “It puts Western Australia in the best possible…
CAIRNS, Australia — Queensland’s opposition and Katter’s Australian Party are urging the Palaszczuk government to implement targeted business support, saying the state’s snap three-day lockdown is crippling local industry. Since the June 29 lockdown announcement, the state government has failed to introduce any economic support for tourism and regional Queensland businesses operators. Millions of people in southeast Queensland, Townsville, Magnetic Island and Palm Island are in lockdown amid five separate virus outbreaks. Queensland Premier and Australian Labor Party’s state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk has implored Queenslanders to buy locally and support take-out restaurants but is yet to pledge targeted support. Liberal National…
CANBERRA, Australia — The head of the Australian Border Force has hit back at “fake” claims immigration officials are carelessly allowing tens of thousands of people to leave the country. Commissioner Michael Outram has also rubbished suggestions floods of non-citizens are being let into Australia. Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia have called for a dramatic reduction in the number of international travelers allowed into the country. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews wants to reduce the returned traveler cap by between 50 and 80 percent for the next three to four months. “It won’t be easy to lock some people out but locking…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Temporary visas can expose refugee and migrant women to a specific type of domestic abuse leveraging their fragile status in Australia, a new study shows. The report draws on survey responses from almost 1,400 migrant and refugee women and is the first national study to examine controlling behavior related to visa and migration status. “This includes threats from husbands and partners of deportation and sometimes threats to be separated from their own children, some who may be Australian citizens,” said Nyadol Nyuon, Harmony Alliance‘s chairperson in the National Press Club on June 30. Nyadol Nyuon is an…
An Israeli woman who had three relatives murdered by Palestinian terrorists has donated her kidney to an ill boy from Gaza. Her donation offer occurred during a period of high tension between Israel and Gaza. Israel was in active conflict with the Gaza Strip from May 6-21, when a ceasefire was declared. In mid-June, Israeli airstrikes targeted militant sites in Gaza, and Palestinians responded by sending fire-filled balloons across the border. Idit Harel Segal, a mother of three, decided to donate one of her kidneys “to do a good deed.” She said she was inspired by her Holocaust-survivor grandfather, who…
BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian judge has ordered mining giant Adani to reveal what confidential information it alleges was leaked during a campaign against the controversial Carmichael project. Now known as Bravus, Adani failed in civil proceedings targeting vocal critic and Galilee Blockade protest campaign founder Ben Pennings. The company claims Pennings unlawfully obtained sensitive and confidential information later used in the protest campaign to harass contractors and suppliers. Adani alleges there was an actual or threatened misuse of the information that was not publicly available. In continuing, legal action started about a year ago the company is asking for the court…
SYDNEY — More than 100 patients and staff are isolating amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak at two Sydney hospitals after a student nurse worked for five days while infectious. The Southeast Australian state of New South Wales recorded 22 new local coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to 8 pm on June 29, taking the tally for the outbreak that began on June 16 to 171. All are linked to previous cases, but only 11 were in isolation for the entirety of their infectious period. However, the state’s health authorities are bracing for the possibility of an outbreak in the…