Tsunami-hit nuclear plant in Ibaraki gets formal restart approval
9/26/2018, 9:57:37 PMJapan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday formally approved the restart of an almost 40-year-old nuclear power plant northeast of Tokyo, idled since it was hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that also caused meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The Tokai No. 2 plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, operated… ✔ Protestors gathered in front of the NRA office in Tokyo in the morning and shouted slogans against the Tokai plant's restart ✔ Tokyo Electric and Tohoku Electric Power Co, which receive power supply from Tokai No. 2, have offered to financially support Japan Atomic Power
The House Just Passed A Bill To Prevent Another Death Toll Disaster Like In Puerto Rico
9/26/2018, 10:33:45 PMThere are currently no national standards on how to count deaths related to natural disasters. Miscounting can lead those left behind to lose out on federal assistance. ✔ As a result of the initial inaccurate death toll following Hurricane Maria, thousands of Puerto Ricans have no official document confirming that their loved ones died because of the hurricane and are thus losing out on some federal assistance ✔ (A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Democratic Sen
Argentina’s Economy Contracted Amid Crisis
9/26/2018, 8:06:38 PMArgentina’s economy shrank in July from a year earlier as the country’s financial crisis hit consumer demand and the lingering impact of a drought hurt agricultural activity. ✔ Demonstrators marched in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, as labor unions called for a nationwide strike ✔ The central bank hiked interest rates several times, with the benchmark rate hitting 40% in early May, to try to stabilize the peso ✔ The government of President Mauricio Macri eventually sought help from the International Monetary Fund, and in June they signed a $50 billion bailout deal
House approves bill that would regulate airline seat sizes
9/26/2018, 11:46:37 PMThe government is one step closer to coming up with regulation on minimum seat sizes for airline flights after the House passed the FAA reauthorization. ✔ Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, special for USA TODAY Fullscreen A fountain of lava 25 stories talls gushes out of a fissure during the Kilauea volcanic eruption on June 4, 2018, on Hawaii's Big Island as seen from a Paradise Helicopter over the site
Why Trump's Fed-bashing is bad for the economy
9/26/2018, 11:16:57 PMHistory shows the economy suffers when the central bank surrenders its independence and does the political bidding of the president. ✔ President Ronald Reagan backed Chairman Paul Volcker’s rate hikes to lower inflation in 1981 even though they caused a deep recession ✔ Owen Ullmann, USA TODAY's managing editor for special projects, has followed the Fed as a reporter and editor for nearly 40 years
IMF boosts bailout for crisis-hit Argentina
9/26/2018, 9:56:19 PMThe IMF will make $57bn in emergency funds available to Argentina as it wrestles with an economic crisis. ✔ It will also make about $19bn available though 2019 ✔ Alarmed investors have pulled money from the country ✔ Ms Lagarde said: A great deal of work remains to be done if Argentina is to respond effectively to the current challenging circumstances ✔ The IMF is committed to continue supporting the Argentine authorities in their efforts
Argentina clinches extra $7 billion in IMF funds, sets band for peso
9/26/2018, 10:12:42 PMina on Wednesday clinched an additional $7 billion in funding from the Internati... ✔ This new monetary policy will allow us to reduce inflation and recover stability and predictability in prices that Argentina so badly needs, Sandleris said ✔ The Argentine currency has shed more than 50 percent of its value so far this year, as a drought hit its agricultural exports and tipped the economy into recession, raising fears over the government’s ability to service its foreign debts next year ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
UK Labour's Corbyn to urge EU's Barnier to avoid no deal Brexit
9/26/2018, 11:25:09 PMThe leader of Britain's opposition Labour party Jeremy Corbyn will warn the... ✔ Time is running out and companies are losing patience with the absence of any clarity from the government, Corbyn said in a statement ahead of the meeting with Barnier, adding he would set out how his party would break the current impasse in talks ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
The New Kind of Fury Unleashed by the Kavanaugh Fight
9/26/2018, 10:28:23 PMThe Kavanaugh fight takes every raw divide in American society today—partisan, ideological, gender, class, generational—and rolls them all into one, according to Gerald F. Seib’s Capital Journal. ✔ The question is, do we appreciate how close the powder keg is ✔ Both the emotions and the stakes, in other words, are enormous ✔ If the system appears to have blown a fuse, it’s because it’s trying to handle high-voltage claims on subjects never before discussed this way ✔ It may take a lot longer to figure out the path for ward for the political system
Cop blasted for one dressing as rainbow-coloured bee for LGBT Pride march
9/26/2018, 10:02:18 PMCOPS have been blasted by taxpayers’ after one dressed as a giant rainbow-coloured Bumblebee to promote inclusivity – just weeks after a senior figure said the force needed to “focus resource… ✔ Do your f***ing jobs, or should I say have PRIDE in your work by cleaning up the scum you seem to ignore 24/7 ✔ And Ryan Daintree hit out at the stunt, saying: Cringeworthy! #pride should be getting on those streets and arresting criminals and terrorists! Not dressing as a big rainbow but if you’re gonna go down that road I hope to see you’re officers dressed as giant poppies for Armistice Day, we shall see ✔ Ring The Sun on 0207 782 4104 or WHATSAPP on 07423720250 or email exclusive@the-sun.co.uk
Don’t scoff at Comrade Corbyn, says QUENTIN LETTS
9/26/2018, 10:33:06 PMMr Corbyn’s cold-blooded sidekick John McDonnell came up with an economics programme which included Marxist ideas such as workers’ councils, says QUENTIN LETTS. ✔ Some were the sort of people you might easily have found interested in David Cameron’s Tory party: a pukka young Derbyshire woman called Samantha, a parliamentary candidate called Hugo and a retired social worker from Wolverhampton in a smart yellow top
Royal Rota Photography Competition 2018 entries include Meghan and Harry moments
9/26/2018, 9:12:27 PMIconic photographs taken by local, regional and national news media at royal events includes images of the Queen, Princes Harry and William and Kate Middleton ✔ Prince Harry giving a little boy a cheeky smile as he visited Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, with Meghan Markle on July 11, 2018 (Image: Ian Vogler)1 of 20 The Duchess of Cornwall smelling a bunch of flowers as she visited the Garden Museum to view a British Flowers Week exhibition on June 21, 2018 (Image: PA)2 of 20 The Duchess of Cambridge pulling a surprised look at The Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute on January 24 this year (Image: Jack Hill/The Times)3 of 20 Prince Charles laughing on a visit to the canal restoration at Wallbridge Stroud in February (Image: SIMON PIZZEY)4 of 20 The Queen walking with President Trump as they inspected the Coldstream guards at Windsor Castle (Image: Times newspapers)5 of 20 The Prince of Wales appears to be enjoying himself at Tretower Court (Image: Peter Williams)6 of 20 Theresa May curtseys as she greets the Duke of Cambridge at Amiens Cathedral, France, for a service to mark the centenary of the Battle of Amiens and the subsequent 'Hundred Days Offensive' which was a decisive point in the First World War on August 8, 2018 (Image: PA)7 of 20 Kate Middleton at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, pictured in the car with Prince George and Princess Charlotte (Image: PHILIP IDE)8 of 20 Prince Harry and Meghan Markle look at some prosthetic limbs made by the Titanic FX company during a visit to Catalyst Inc science park in Belfast, where they met some of Northern Ireland's brightest young entrepreneurs (Image: PA)9 of 20 Prince William visited RAF Coningsby in July 2017 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, watching a flying display and meeting RAF veterans who flew the aircraft (Image: MICHAEL DUNLEA)10 of 20 Prince Charles at a garden party for volunteers and carers at The Alnwick Garden (Image: Jane Coltman)11 of 20 The Queen dressed in black on Remembrance Sunday, with poppies pinned onto her jacket (Image: James Whatling)12 of 20 President Donald Trump was met by the Queen at Windsor Castle on his visit to the UK with the First Lady, Melania Trump, in July 2018 (Image: Ian Longthorne)13 of 20 The Duke of Cambridge, President of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, visited the Trust's facilities in Chelsea to view two pioneering robotic surgeries in January 14 of 20 The Duchess of Cornwall with Trump masks at ICAP charity day (Image: Arthur Edwards)15 of 20 Princess Charlotte sticks out her tongue as she rides in a car to St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (Image: PA)16 of 20 The Prince of Wales greets The Duchess of Cornwall's dog Beth during a visit to Dumfries House garden party and dog show, in Cumnock, Scotland (Image: PA)17 of 20 The Duchess of Cornwall enjoys an ice cream with Dame Judi Dench as she arrives at Queen Victoria's private beach, next to the monarch's holiday home in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight (Image: PA)18 of 20 Prince William jokes with presenter Nick Knowles as he joins the crew of DIY SOS on a project to build a new community centre in support of those affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster in west London on May 18, 2018 (Image: Adrian DENNIS / AFP)19 of 20 Prince Philip, in his role as Captain General, Royal Marines, attends a Parade to mark the finale of the 1664 Global Challenge, on the Buckingham Palace Forecourt on August 2, 2017
Space lab to finish its service in July
9/26/2018, 9:37:12 PMTiangong-2, China’s space lab orbiting Earth, will be safely removed from orbit under manual control after July, senior space engineers said on Wednesday. ✔ Zhu said the success of Tiangong-2 has laid a solid foundation for China’s future space station ✔ The Chinese space station will help create globally influential scientific achievements in basic research, and contribute to humanity’s exploration and understanding of the natural world, he said
Trump Backs Two-State Solution to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
9/26/2018, 8:19:28 PMU.S. leader shifts stance on conflict and promises to release a peace plan within four months, as the Palestinian leader rejected Washington as a mediator. ✔ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, spoke during a bilateral meeting with President Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday ✔ They have refused contact with the Trump administration since December, when Mr. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and announced the U.S. would move its embassy there, a city which the Palestinians claim as their own future capital
Labour will vote against May's Brexit plan, says Corbyn
9/26/2018, 10:33:55 PMBritish opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday Labour would vote against a Brexit deal based on Theresa May's proposals, the strongest warning yet to a prime minister whose plan to leave the European Union is hanging by a thread. On the final day of his party's annual conference, Corbyn… ✔ His words were greated with chants of Oh Jeremy Corbyn, a popular refrain since 2015 when he became leader of Labour, a party which seems to be growing in confidence after months of rows over anti-Semitism and other issues ✔ If she cannot secure one, she should make way for a party that can, Corbyn added, before leaving the stage to strains of Children of the revolution by rock group T-Rex
Here's The Real Brexit Strategy Behind Jeremy Corbyn's Big Conference Speech
9/26/2018, 9:10:49 PMMost observers thought the Labour leader didn't want to talk about Brexit. But senior advisers told BuzzFeed News this conference has been entirely about defining policies to appeal to "held back" Leave voters. ✔ The new announcements on expanding democracy in the economy with a share ownership plan for employees and workers on boards were inspired by the Brexit theme of control, Labour advisers said ✔ And as the political class found out in the referendum, it is those disenfranchised voters who feel angry at the way the country has been run for decades who can deliver a political earthquake
Preparing for a bear market with your adviser
9/26/2018, 8:44:38 PMlas Boneparth will never forget the terrified financial planning clients he coun... ✔ REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo There were emotional outbursts; there were some tears; there was anger, he recalls ✔ If investors are still scared, Shagawat uses Riskalyze software to show more conservative stock and bond mixtures ✔ (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles
Kavanaugh facing prosecutor said to be unbound by politics
9/26/2018, 11:19:22 PMPHOENIX (AP) — A sex-crimes prosecutor tapped by Senate Republicans to question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh about allegations of sexual assault could have a tough time i ✔ Montgomery said he wasn't shocked when he got a call Saturday from two Judiciary Committee staffers inquiring about Mitchell's background, availability and qualifications ✔ A news release from Grassley's office describes Mitchell as a career prosecutor with decades of experience prosecuting sex crimes
China refutes US trade charges in style - Opinion
9/26/2018, 11:51:31 PMundefined ✔ The current circumstances require sober assessment of the situation and prudent actions that lead to further negotiations, rather than escalating the war of words ✔ As a Chinese saying goes, a fire at the city gate brings disaster to the fish in the moat ✔ Yu Yongding, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
32 Things That’ll Make You Say, “Why Don’t I Own That Already?”
9/26/2018, 8:25:03 PMFrom brown-sugar bears to T(ea)-shirts to perfect fall dresses: an eclectic mix of some *really awesome* things. ✔ Love the reasonable price, cute package, and very smart concept ✔ Looking for the perfect gift for any occasion ✔ Check out all of BuzzFeed’s gift guides! The best things at three price points The best things at three price points More BuzzFeed Reviews More BuzzFeed Reviews
Who's right? Gender, power, politics collide over Kavanaugh
9/26/2018, 11:44:45 PMThe sexual assault allegation that has disrupted Brett Kavanaugh's seemingly inexorable march to a seat on the US Supreme Court gave new life to a debate that has festered in America since the testimony of Anita Hill in Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearing 27 years ago. ✔ Sally Kohn: The GOP is right to be worried Sally Kohn I don't think women in either party will take well to Republican men making light of serious allegations of sexual assault ✔ She is a frequent opinion contributor to CNN and The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review
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