Image copyright Getty Images Two of the UK’s leading Jewish newspapers are to go into liquidation. The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News said they were not able to survive the impact of the coronavirus epidemic in their current form. The boards of the papers, which announced plans to merge in February, said they expected the […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £750m package to keep struggling charities afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. The move follows concern that some charities are facing collapse, with income shrinking because of enforced shop closures. Bigger charities such as Oxfam and Age UK have furloughed two-thirds of staff. The measures involve
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has resisted calls for a nationwide lockdown, calling fears of the coronavirus epidemic “psychosis” and suggesting vodka or a sauna would help. So as football leagues across Europe have shut down for safety, teams in Belarus are playing on. The country’s little-known league is now surging in popularity worldwide as match-hungry
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The group charged with monitoring gambling and punishing corruption in tennis found a near-doubling in the number of suspect matches in the first three months of 2020 By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer April 8, 2020, 3:48 PM 3 min read The group charged with monitoring gambling and punishing corruption in tennis found a near-doubling
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For several weeks, Mr. Sanders surged. In Iowa, he finished in a virtual tie for first with Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who, at 38, was less than half his age. He then narrowly beat Mr. Buttigieg in New Hampshire, before dominating the field less than two weeks later in the
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PALMETTO, Fla. — Mounds of harvested zucchini and yellow squash ripened and then rotted in the hot Florida sun. Juicy tomatoes were left to wither — unpicked — in farmers’ fields. Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants,
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Over the last few weeks, a plethora of powerful, poignant and witty pieces supporting health care workers, reminding people to stay home and poking fun at toilet paper shortages have appeared on walls around the world, from Los Angeles to London and beyond. Some murals have appeared to criticize the ways in which President Donald
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Image copyright AFP Electric car-maker Tesla will reduce staff pay and put non-essential workers on furlough while production of its vehicles is stopped due to coronavirus. Work at its factory in Fremont, California halted on 23 March. In a letter to staff, the company said it hoped to resume operations on 4 May, “barring any
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But Mr. Goel is also looking at what else A.I. could do. Like working with sentiment analysis (it uses “the order of the words, the phrases of the words” to classify moods and personality types) to explore how virtual tools could answer a human’s emotion. “If my sentiment is one of exasperation, how do you
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Formula One says it will furlough half of its staff until the end of May and senior executives will take pay cuts because of the coronavirus pandemic April 8, 2020, 2:22 PM 2 min read LONDON — With nearly half of the season already altered by the coronavirus pandemic, Formula One said Wednesday it will
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