• Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick을 포함한 Reform UK의 주요 인물들이 건설 회사 JCB의 새로운 포트홀 보수 기계를 반복적으로 홍보해 왔으며, 이 과정에서 해당 정당이 이 영국 굴삭기 제작사로부터 20만 파운드를 후원받았다고 Guardian이 밝혔습니다.
• Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Robert Jenrick, Zia Yusuf, Richard Tice를 포함한 여러 Reform 정치인들이 JCB PotHole Pro 기계를 극찬했습니다. 계속 읽기...
• 선거관리위원회는 폭력 및 소요 사태로 인해 South 24 Parganas 지역의 Magrahat Paschim 및 Diamond Harbour 선거구 내 15개 투표소의 4월 29일 투표 결과를 무효로 선언했습니다.
• 공정한 선거 프로세스를 보장하기 위해 엄격한 감시 하에 5월 2일 오전 7시부터 오후 6시까지 재투표가 실시될 예정입니다.
• 이번 결정은 해당 지역의 투표 무결성을 훼손한 혼란 보고에 따른 조치입니다.
meniscus tears로 수술을 받은 환자들은 10년 후 수술을 받지 않은 이들에 비해 무릎 기능이 더 떨어지고 osteoarthritis가 악화된 것으로 나타났습니다. 연골 손상에 흔히 시행되는 무릎 수술이 환자에게 이득이 되지 않으며 오히려 더 나쁜 결과를 초래할 수 있다는 점이 10년간의 trial을 통해 시사되었습니다. 이 연구는 가장 흔한 orthopaedic surgeries 중 하나인 partial meniscectomy를 받은 meniscus tear 환자들의 경과를 추적했습니다. 이들의 경과는 아무런 시술도 이루어지지 않는 “sham surgery”를 받도록 무작위로 배정된 환자들과 비교되었습니다. Continue reading...
• New York City Council 선거에서 현직 의원이 낮은 지지율과 분열된 지지층으로 고전함에 따라 Zohran Mamdani의 지지 선언이 의구심에 직면했습니다.
• 해당 후보는 저조한 지지율에도 불구하고 중도 성향의 도전자에게 양보하기를 거부하며 맞서고 있습니다.
• 이번 지역 선거는 국가적 시사점을 지닌 도시 정치 내 Democratic 역학 관계의 변화를 시사합니다.
• 버지니아 유권자들이 여러 공화당 현역 의원들을 위험에 빠뜨리는 민주당 지지 선거구 획정 계획을 근소한 차이로 승인했습니다.
• 이번 조치는 주요 선거구에서 민주당에 유리하게 경계선을 다시 그려, 2026년 중간선거의 균형을 변화시킬 것으로 보입니다.
• 이러한 해안 지역의 선거구 획정 갈등은 공정한 지도 작성과 당파적 이익을 둘러싼 국가적 긴장을 부각시킵니다.
The firms said last week that they will be reducing parental leave and other benefits for employees starting next yearRecent moves by US companies Deloitte and Zoom to reduce how much paid parental leave they offer employees could signal a larger reduction in benefits in corporate America, according to labor market experts.American workers are already seen as having less benefits and labor protections than many of their counterparts across the world, especially in Europe. Continue reading...
Former prime minister says policies will lose support without continued lower prices, while Malcolm Turnbull points to some progress in USGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastKevin Rudd has described Donald Trump’s cuts to support for green industries as “unfortunate”, warning that Australians would conclude the clean transition was “bullshit” if it did not offer tangible benefits to their lives.But – in some of his first comments since finishing his term as Australia’s ambassador to the US – the former prime minister said climate policies would have staying power if they delivered affordable prices, a reliable energy supply and new job opportunities. Continue reading...
Roberts-Smith, who has denied five charges of war crime murder, says he was always going to attend: ‘I never thought about not coming’Booing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Melbourne and Sydney, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin Beach.One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgement of country. Continue reading...
Former soldier says he will ‘pay my respects’ at commemoration in Queensland where he has been living since being released on bailGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith will attend an Anzac Day service in Queensland on Saturday morning, describing the day as “sacred” to him, the first commemoration since he was criminally charged.Roberts-Smith, the recipient of the Victoria Cross and once one of Australia’s most lionised soldiers, faces five charges of the war crime of murder, allegedly committed during his service with the SAS in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012. Continue reading...
Partner of soldier accused of war crimes says the couple discussed possibility of moving overseas to ‘create some normalcy in our lives’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith was planning to leave Australia to live overseas and had a business class flight out of the country booked in four days’ time when he was arrested at Sydney airport this month, court documents allege, with investigators telling a court “his willingness to return to Australia to face prosecution cannot be judged”.Roberts-Smith was ultimately granted bail last week under strict conditions, a move opposed by prosecutors who said there was potential concern he was a flight risk and might try to avoid ever having to face trial for a series of alleged murders he committed in Afghanistan. Continue reading...