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Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureHospital waiting list figures rise for second month in row, NHS England figures revealHospital waiting list figures in England have risen for the second month in a row, the latest figures reveal.PA Media says an estimated 7.40 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of July, relating to 6.25 million patients, up from 7.37 million treatments and 6.23 million patients at the end of June.The list hit a record high in September 2023, with 7.77 million treatments and 6.50 million patients.In its own news release…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Following President Donald Trump’s call for swift action, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi shared that the Justice Department may seek the death penalty for Iryna Zarutska’s killer.Speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Bondi shared that Zarutska’s alleged murderer, Decarlos Brown Jr., has been arrested and that he is being charged federally.”We have arrested him. We are charging him federally because it was a murder on mass transit,” said Bondi.”This young woman died a horrific, horrific death, as we all saw, captured on video,” she went on, adding, “It was horrible.”AG PAM BONDI: WE…

Australia has approved the first vaccine to protect its shrinking koala population against chlamydia, a disease that accounts for as many as half of deaths in the wild among the country’s iconic marsupials. Researchers spent over 10 years developing the single-dose vaccine, which Australia’s veterinary medicine regulator has approved for use in wildlife hospitals and veterinary clinics and in the field.There are estimated to be 224,000 to 524,000 koalas left in Australia, according to Australia’s national science agency, which cited numbers from the National Koala Monitoring Program. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the koala population has been…

New Delhi: As India prepares to usher in the GST 2.0 era from September 22, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal spoke to IANS on a myriad of issues related to rate rationalisation and its impact on traders, exporters and the common man.  Here are some of the excerpts from the interaction: Q: What is the impact of duty reduction on gold? Add Zee News as a Preferred Source A: On gold, the rate of duty remains the same, which is 3 per cent, a special rate on the lower side. Since there is…

Forgive me if I’ve got this wrong, but I seem to recall the country voting the Tories out last year. Part of the reason, if I remember correctly, was their staggering incompetence and insouciance, epitomised by Liz Truss’s mini-budget. That catastrophe was, like Truss’s political career, formed and steered by the neoliberal junktanks of Tufton Street.But now I begin to doubt my recollections. We booted them out through the front door, right? Yet they still appear to be in the house. Perhaps they came round the back. After taking an interest in the Department for Business and Trade’s “growth school”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vigils were held across the country following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah on Wednesday.Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday afternoon. He was transported to a hospital in critical condition before he was later pronounced dead.Politicians, faith leaders, fellow conservative activists and others mourned Kirk’s death, with some announcing vigils to stand against political violence in the wake of his murder.Turning Point USA campus chapters at colleges across the country organized…

HAVANA — Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed Wednesday, leaving the entire island without power, according to the state-run power company. “A total disconnection of the Electrical System, SEN, has occurred, which may be associated with an unexpected outage of the CTE Guiteras,” the Ministry of Energy and Mines wrote on X.It said the causes are being investigated and the restoration process has already begun.In the country’s capital, residents expressed concern over the blackout and not knowing how long it could take to re-establish connectivity on top of all the daily economic struggles they face, including shortages in food and medicine.“This country…

New Delhi: As discussions continue to bring petrol and diesel within the ambit of Goods and Services Tax (GST), Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said it may not be possible to bring these items under the indirect taxation for the time being.  Asked if petrol and diesel should be brought under GST, Agarwal told IANS that petrol and diesel are presently subject to central excise duty and value-added tax (VAT), as these two petroleum items fetch a substantial revenue to the states by way of VAT and to the Central government…

The US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and is laying off 125 scientists in the capital this year, in a big blow to the UK’s important life science sector.Keir Starmer’s government has described life sciences as “one of the crown jewels of the UK economy” and the previous Conservative government had vowed to turn the country into a “global science and technology superpower” by 2030.The planned new lab, called the UK Discovery Centre, at the Belgrove House site opposite St Pancras and King’s Cross stations, was already under construction and scheduled to open in two years’…

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