Coronavirus | Russia will shut down for 7 - day non-working period
As the Covid death toll and case numbers soar, Russia will shut down for a seven-day non-working period starting on Oct. 30, President Vladimir Putin announced. The measure is intended to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus amid low vaccination numbers. The country has been recording more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths for the first time since the pandemic began. The Kremlin has hesitated to impose widespread restrictions out of fear of disrupting the economy and because of widespread public nonchalance about the pandemic. We have only two ways to get through this — get sick or get vaccinated, Putin said in a news conference. But it s better to get vaccinated. He added that the non-working period could be extended.
Data: Only 45 million of the country s 146 million people have been fully vaccinated. Scholars attribute the hesitancy to low levels of trust in the authorities. The Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine has not been approved by the W.H. Details: It is not a full lockdown; instead, nonessential workers are encouraged to stay home, while their employers are encouraged to pay them at least the minimum wage to do so. Four days in that period are already public holidays. The Kremlin imposed a similar public period in May, when there were also non-working holidays. None New York City will require all city workers to be vaccinated by the end of the month or lose their paychecks.
None The British government is resisting new virus restrictions amid rising cases.
None The Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, beginning a countdown to a Winter Games overshadowed by Covid worries.
The report looked at future mining and drilling plans from major fossil fuel producers, including the U.S. Saudi Arabia, Russia, China and India. It lands in advance of a U.N. climate summit in Glasgow scheduled for Oct. 31 for two weeks. The report found that the world s nations are planning to produce 240 percent more coal, 57 percent more oil and 71 percent more natural gas by 2030 than would be needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Data: The International Energy Agency recently looked at what would be needed to reach the Paris goals. The world would essentially have to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Under that scenario, nations would not approve new coal mines or new oil and gas fields beyond current commitments.
None Dozens of people have been killed by unseasonably heavy rainfall and floods across India and Nepal.
None U.S. companies have used a mix of tactics to avoid responsibility for pollution from forever chemicals. None We looked at how the Dixie fire in California created its own weather system.
None President Vladimir Putin of Russia said he would not attend a major U.N. climate summit in Glasgow this month.
Several former judges said Taliban officials had recovered their personal information from court records, and some have had their bank accounts frozen. Many say they have received threats. We lost everything — our jobs, our homes, the way we lived, said Wahida, 28, a former judge. Before the takeover, more than 270 male judges served in Afghanistan's corrupt, male-dominated justice system. Special courts with female judges, along with special police units and prosecution offices, were set up to handle cases of violence against women.
Robert Kolker recently wrote about a social media case involving friendship, plagiarism and art for The Times Magazine, which divided social media users. He talked to Times Insider about how he approached reporting. In early January, I got an email from a writer in Los Angeles named Dawn Dorland. The email was straightforward: She believed she d been plagiarized by another writer named Sonya Larson in a short story. Now they were in court. which became a major topic of conversation online, with readers taking sides. This was, on one level, a story about a friendship torn asunder. It was also about how people can take details from real life and weave them into their fiction, and the question of whether artists must adhere to a certain set of ethics. Then there was the astonishing nature of what was appropriated: Larson had donated a kidney, and Dorland s short story was about a kidney donation. Some readers might land on team Larson, others on team Dorland. But neither I nor any of the editors involved in the piece expected it to turn into Twitter s favorite parlor game. I feel that a lot of the debate that continues to swirl across Twitter risks flattening the piece into a tale of bad guys and good guys — which, you might say, kind of proves the story s point. We can all retreat into our own echo chambers and decide on our own versions of the truth, which can turn any of us into bad art friends.