(Natural News) Switzerland is planning to temporarily limit the use of electric vehicles this winter in case the country’s energy supply drops low enough that power blackouts become a possibility. Under the new plan, which takes inspiration from Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdowns, Switzerland could ban electric cars from making non-essential journeys during the winter to deal with potential […]
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Switzerland plans to temporarily limit electric vehicle use this winter due to energy shortage
Major British Airports Set To Phase Out Liquid Limit In Hand Luggage
New CT scanners using 3D technology are set to be installed in U.K. airports by the summer of 2024, which would allow for the rules to be relaxed. Source Views: 0
401(k) Contribution Limit Leaps By Record Amount As Inflation Rages
BofA Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett (whose latest weekly note we will dissect shortly) has a favorite saying for when critical phase (to avoid the most hated word in the world “paradigm”) shifts take place in the market, one which may be the only word a trader in this day and age needs (or rather […]
Baby born week before Britain’s abortion limit, who survived rare infection, turns 1 year old
Photo Credit: Balbert3/Pixabay (The Christian Institute) — A baby born a week before Britain’s abortion limit has celebrated his first birthday after doctors said he was unlikely to survive complications following birth. Mother Kenidee Brownbill gave birth to Mason at 23 weeks and weighing only 1lb 6oz (610g). At 12 days old he underwent surgery […]
Japanese Court OKs Local Ordinance to Limit Daily Video Game Time, Says Law Does Not Violate Constitution
A Japanese court on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a 19-year-old man and his mother who argued that a local ordinance limiting video game playing time was unconstitutional. The ordinance, first introduced in the Kagawa Prefecture in April 2020, suggests that parents limit video gaming time for children under 18 to 60 minutes per […]
WHO Recommends Gay And Bisexual Men Limit Sexual Partners, Anonymous Sex, To Reduce Monkeypox Spread
The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended that gay and bisexual men cut back on the number of sexual partners to reduce the spread of monkeypox. Source Views: 0
High Cost Of Russia Gains In Ukraine Could Limit New Advance
After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. Source Views: 0
Press Corps Blasts “Continued Efforts To Limit Access To The President” By The White House
The White House Press Corps has blasted “ahistoric” efforts to limit reporters’ access to Joe Biden during briefings, charging that their presence is being unprecedentedly and severely restricted without explanation. In a joint letter to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the Corps pointed out that this isn’t the first time complaints have been made about the […]
Brooks: I’m ‘Guardedly Skeptical’ Biden Oil Reserve Release Will Do Much, OPEC Can Just Limit Supply
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases “never” work and he is “guardedly skeptical” that President Joe Biden’s plan to release from the SPR “is going to do much” to lower gas prices. Brooks stated, “Presidents always do this. They always release from the reserve, and […]
Egypt’s grand mufti legalises use of contraceptives to limit population growth
Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Abdel-Karim Allam has announced that the use of contraceptives was “permissible and does not cause any harm to the family or women” and can be used to control population growth. Allam added that there was “no problem in taking steps to maintain development and achieve positive goals for the family and […]
Senate Passes Bill Opening Path to Raise US Debt Limit, Sends to Biden’s Desk
The U.S. Senate voted to pass legislation that would expedite the process for passing a bill to raise the federal government’s $28.9 trillion debt limit, to avert a U.S. default. The vote for the measure was 59-35, with 10 Republicans joining Democrats in favor of the bill. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was among those in […]
Israel and Jordan limit travelers as omicron spreads to 24 countries
Palestinians take part in a campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus in Gaza City on December 2, 2021. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images) The Latest: 461,467 Palestinians tested positive for COVID-19; 453,392 recoveries; 4,810 deaths Of those who tested positive 243,648 live in the West Bank and 187,463 live in the West […]
Wash toys, limit kissing: French health ministry warns on bronchiolitis epidemic
Parents should wash toys and limit other peoples’ contact with their babies, including kisses, amid a bronchiolitis epidemic, France’s health ministry warned. Bronchiolitis is a common respiratory infection that affects babies under two years old. The early symptoms include a slight fever and cough or wheezing. France has an early epidemic of bronchiolitis this year […]
Calls for Tunisia president to set a time limit for his exceptional measures
Tunisian human rights advocates called on President Kais Saied to stop the “rhetoric of treason and defamation against his opponents”, which they said would increase tensions and hate in the country. They also demanded that he stop threatening officials working in state institutions. The Democratic Current Party also called on Saied to set a time […]
The World Is Way Off Track To Limit Climate Change, warn UN and WMO
Just days before world leaders meet in Glasgow, Scotland, for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), a new report has revealed just how far off course we are to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and limiting the impacts of global warming. From October 31 to November 12, the leaders of the world […]
The End of the Speed Limit on the Highway to Nowhere
There was a time when time was time and space and speed had some human meaning, for people lived within the limits of the natural world of which they were a part. As Albert Camus said, “In our madness, we push back the eternal limits, and at once dark Furies swoop down upon us to […]
A Syria-story: Limit of the Empire’s power
The following observations tell at least one aspect of the reality yet dominated by the Empire. Bonnie Kristian, fellow at Defense Priorities, writes in Business Insider (“Bashar Assad’s inevitable presidential victory is another sign of the limits on the US’s power”, June 2, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/bashar-assads-inevitable-presidential-victory-is-another-sign-of-the-limits-on-the-uss-power/amp_articleshow/83175304.cms): “For the United States, Assad’s re-election should be a reiteration […]
China Announces Three-Child Limit
China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit, after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country. “To actively respond to the ageing of the population … a couple can have three children,” […]
Pennsylvania Votes to Limit Governor’s Emergency Powers
Pennsylvania voted to amend its Constitution on May 18 in response to their governor’s use of emergency declarations to decide laws during the pandemic. As more than two million Pennsylvanians voted in a primary election, they passed two constitutional amendments in ballot questions to restrict the governor’s emergency declaration powers to give some power back to the legislature. […]
Government’s ‘Online Safety’ Bill Will Limit Free Speech, Lead To Massive ‘State-backed Censorship’ Warn Watchdogs
Free speech activists in the UK have warned that new government legislation aimed at social media companies is set to decimate free speech and bring in ‘state-backed censorship’ on an unprecedented scale. The ‘Online Safety’ Bill is being introduced with the justification of forcing big tech to be more accountable for ‘harmful’ content on their […]