ADELAIDE, Australia — South Australia is fighting to contain the latest Covid-19 outbreak as the list of exposure sites continues to grow, raising fears of more cases. The number of sites of concern is heading towards 100, with the Seppeltsfield Winery in the Barossa Valley, northeast of Adelaide, and the Technical and Further Education college in Adelaide among the latest to join the list. A growing number of locations has meant thousands of people are now in home quarantine with requirements to have three Covid-19 tests as the state heads into the third full day of its week-long lockdown. The state’s Covid-19 cluster is…
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brasil — La Policía Federal abrió una investigación para indagar si el presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, cometió un crimen de responsabilidad administrativa. La inquisición se dio inicio luego de que el Senado de la República instauró una “Comisión parlamentaria de investigación” (CPI de COVID) para apurar irregularidades y atrasos en la compra de vacunas durante la pandemia. En el transcurso de la averiguación por parte de la comisión del senado, salió a la luz un contrato de compra multimillonaria de la vacuna Covaxin. Luis Ricardo Miranda, funcionario de carrera del Ministerio de Salud y hermano del diputado federal…
TARRANT, Ala. — As a white city councilman in an Alabama town faces outrage for directing a racial slur at a black city councilwoman, the town’s mayor says the episode was a calculated political stunt meant to harm him. Video footage of the July 19 town meeting in Tarrant, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, rocketed across the U.S. at the speed of Twitter, drawing demands for John “Tommy” Bryant’s resignation. Interviews and Internet messages reviewed by Zenger reveal a power struggle with Bryant and his wife, who are white, battling black first-term mayor Wayman A. Newton, who has become a disruptive…
Moona — a Space for Change began in September 2014 as an extracurricular program where Jewish and Arab Israeli high-school students get acquainted while learning technologies related to space exploration: robotics, drones, 3D printing and electronics. Since then, Moona has expanded and added advanced vision and Internet of Things, or IoT, technologies to the curriculum, plus job-specific training for young adults in coordination with high-tech businesses looking to hire. The collaborative hands-on-skills acquisition takes place at Moona locations in two Arab Israeli towns: Majd al-Krumin, the Western Galilee near Acre (Akko), and Kafr Qasim in central Israel. “Moona” means “wish”…
A British art restorer has been charged in a decades-old global trafficking scheme of Asian antiquities worth $143 million. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office extradited Neil Perry Smith from London to New York. He was indicted on July 20. The suspect has been charged with possessing and restoring 22 stolen pieces of art believed to be worth more than $32 million. Charges include grand larceny, conspiracy and scheme to defraud. The indictment cites his alleged role in a “global antiquities trafficking ring that looted and smuggled culturally significant relics from Asia and sold them in New York’s art market,” the…
NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Innovid — the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television — to manage ads during its presentation of the 2020 Olympic Games, which run through Aug. 9 in Tokyo. Innovid will manage third-party ads across NBC Olympics’ leading CTV apps, including NBC Sports and the Olympic Channel, using the Innovid-powered Olympics Ad Manager. The service will be powered by Innovid as part of a new Olympics advertising suite, including NBCUniversal’s previously announced Olympics Ad Engine, which applies human curation, machine learning and computer vision to historical…
A paragliding instructor took his 4-year-old son on a 30-minute flight and allowed him to steer, while he captured the experience on video. Tamer Adıyaman, a part-time paragliding instructor for six years in Aksaray, Turkey, waited until his youngest child, Ahmet, turned 4 before taking him on his debut flight. “I love this sport so much, and I want my children to be ready to make the Turkish national team,” said Adıyaman, whose wife is also a paragliding instructor. Adıyaman and Ahmet set off from Asikli mountain near Guvercinlik. “During the flight, Ahmet said he wanted to steer the paraglider…
A pair of white-nosed coati twins finally saw the light of day when they ran through their enclosure at a zoo in Austria’s capital Vienna for the first time ever. The two female coatis, named Bonita and Belize, were filmed frolicking at Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo for the first time after their birth on May 22. “You can now closely watch the lively young animals,” said zoo director Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck. Like all coatis, these kittens were born blind but slowly gained their sight, said Hering-Hagenbeck. At birth, the young ones were tailless and measured only 3.9 inches (10 cm) in length.…
CANBERRA, Australia — New figures are supposed to give a flavor of how Australia’s labor market was performing in the very early stages of July and after the unemployment rate dropped to a decade low of 4.9 percent in June 2021. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release its latest weekly payroll jobs report on July 22, a rough guide to the monthly official labor force figures. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is the independent statutory agency of the Australian Government responsible for statistical collection and analysis and giving evidence-based advice to federal, state, and territory governments. However, the data would not capture…
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian taxpayers could soon be on the hook for a Pacific telecommunications company to stop China from buying the assets. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to guarantee the public would not cop a financial whack. He also declined to explain what strategic benefit the purchase would have. Telstra is considering taking over Digicel Pacific in partnership with the Australian government. The company is critical to delivering telecommunications throughout the region. But Telstra has said it would only proceed with a transaction if given “financial and strategic risk management support” from the government. “Any investment would also have to be within…