Man City’s 115 sins: Five-time EPL champions face punitive penalties for lack of progress in probe
Executives point out the contradiction in City’s public statement, where they said they welcomed the chance to present their irrefutable evidence but, at the same time, the Premier League charges include allegations that the club obstructed the investigation. City, for example, headed to court to question the league’s jurisdiction to investigate it and then once more, this time with the Premier League, to prevent any details from becoming public.
Museveni shuts down Busoga Radio station in replay of Orwellian Ministry of Truth in further curb of Press Freedom
It will be terrible for Uganda today and tomorrow if the shutting down of Busoga One is tied to politics. However, if the President found the Station ethically and morally right but politically wrong, then we should begin to shed tears for Uganda.
UN agency boss Winnie Byanyima warns rising debt in sub-Saharan Africa undermines war against HIV/Aids
If debt payments and stifled budgets are unaddressed in the next three to five years, African countries will be “under-resourced to fund their HIV responses,” according to the UN agency’s report. Further data reveals that “the region’s success in having reduced new HIV infections by 56 per cent since 2010...
Sacked for porn obsession, Wisconsin University chancellor fights to regain top job, project in adult film industry
A University of Wisconsin or UW-La Crosse faculty committee unanimously recommended in July that Gow lose his faculty position, saying he exploited his position to generate more interest and revenue from the videos. University attorneys plan to argue on Friday that he should lose his tenured teaching position because he harmed the university’s reputation and interfered with its mission.
Courting The Hague: Israel’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies verge on war crimes
Hezbollah, a powerful Lebanese Shia group backed by Iran, has been exchanging rocket fire with Israel since October 7, leading to the displacement of tens of thousands in southern Lebanon and Northern Israel. Some estimates hold that more than 600 people have been killed in Lebanon, including more than 130 civilians, over the course of the past year. In Israel, including the annexed Golan Heights, the violence has killed at least 24 soldiers and 26 civilians.
Medical coder in Arizona details how huge ‘financial incentives led hospitals in US to use Covid treatments that killed patients’
Under the Covid-19 hospital protocols, patients “would be on the ventilators for 30 days or more sometimes, which was incredibly rare,” Smith said. “On top of that, they weren’t talking about disconnecting these patients from the ventilator, which should be something they’re talking about within 24 hours, because the longer you’re on, the less likely you are to come off the ventilator.”
Israel air strikes destroy 1,000 Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels as military vows to sustain attacks
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah after a week of escalation. The US has also expressed fears of further escalation.
Israel pounds southern Lebanon in heaviest air strikes since start of war as US, UK urge restraint
The bombardment included more than 52 strikes across southern Lebanon after 9pm (1800 GMT), Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said. Three Lebanese security sources said these were the heaviest aerial strikes since the conflict began in October. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
