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As Missouri University reportedly approaches 1, 185 positive cases of the coronavirus, Chancellor and President Mun Choi has blocked students from viewing his Twitter account after they voiced concerns about the school’s handling of the outbreak. It ultimately took a lawsuit threat from one student for Choi to unblock them. The public university, which is conducting half of its fall classes online and the other half remotely, has come under fire from students for what they believe to be unclear guidelines and lackluster protections against further outbreaks at the school. For instance, Mizzou’s administration in a matter of days switched from […]
Late last month, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak reportedly signaled the Treasury’s readiness for a $40 billion tax hike on the wealthy aimed at filling the gap in the country’s finances caused by the coronavirus crisis. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak have agreed to cut personal taxes before the next general election scheduled for 2024, according to The Sunday Times. The newspaper reported that the two arrived at a consensus on the issue after they thrashed out a deal on the government’s economic strategy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “The chancellor will tell […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202009021080349976-german-chancellor-merkel-claims-navalny-case-is-attempted-murder-with-use-of-nerve-agent/ Earlier Wednesday, a German government spokesman alleged that test results showed that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who was rushed to Germany from Siberia last month after becoming ill and falling into a coma, was poisoned by a nerve agent of the so-called ‘Novichok’ group. Berlin is treating the Navalny case as an ‘attempted murder’ using a nerve agent, and is now waiting for Russia to ‘explain its position’, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107004/82/1070048257_0:217:2870:1831_1200x675_80_0_0_9e2e2654167b46d9658f38084478b224.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202008281080300280-german-chancellor-merkel-holds-annual-press-conference—video/ The head of the German government is expected to give an outlook on internal problems and international issues, such as tensions between Europe and Turkey in the Mediterranean, the situation in Libya, and a military coup in Mali. German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her annual summer news speech at the Federal Press Conference building in Berlin. In the meantime, Germany, which is presiding over the Council of the European Union, is also holding informal ministerial meetings. Follow Sputnik’s Live Feed to Find Out More! Source link
According to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, there could be an “anomaly” in the way the triple lock scheme, which keeps pensions at a sustainable level in line with prices and wage growth, could work out in the months to come. Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak appear to be at loggerheads over the so-called pension triple lock – a Tory manifesto from 2019, whereby state pensions enjoy annual increases corresponding to either wages and inflation rates, or goes up by 2.5 percent, depending on which of the three figures gives a greater boost to the payment, The Times reported. Sunak […]
The United Kingdom first introduced lockdown measures in March in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and avoid overwhelming the national health service. To keep businesses afloat, Chancellor Rishi Sunak introduced unprecedented stimulus injections to support furloughed workers. Rishi Sunak has been roundly ridiculed on social media for a tweet on Tuesday where he hails the reopening of pubs in the UK. Following the announcement by the prime minister that pubs and restaurants would be reopening from 4 July, the chancellor tweeted that he was excited to “get back to the pub”, with a picture of himself accompanying the […]
Guest post by Collin McMahon Ever since Donald Trump announced he would designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, calls have emerged to pursue the violent far-left mobs and their shadowy backers internationally. Official budget number from the German government show this includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The budget for Angela Merkel’s Chancellery totaled €3.19 billion 2020, of which more than half, €1.82 billion, went to the Chancellor’s Office for Media and Culture. The office was created by Merkel’s forerunner Gerhard Schröder (Social Democrat) in 1998 even though the German constitution explicitly delegates cultural affairs to the states and not the federal […]