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Before a trip to Saudi Arabia and a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the charge of making the country socially acceptable again after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It is not about rehabilitation or cheap, said Macron today in Dubai.In order to help Lebanon or to secure peace and stability in the Middle East, one also has to speak to Saudi Arabia. After all, it is the most populous and most important Gulf state. "That doesn't mean that I approve and forget and that we are not demanding partners," said Macron.Reference to G-20 formatMacron also rejected the accusation that he was the first head of state to travel to Saudi Arabia after the Khashoggi murder. Last year, Saudi Arabia organize...

New Brunswick Health Minister Dorothy Shephard and Health Medical Director Dr. Jennifer Russell are scheduled to have a COVID-19 briefing on Friday afternoon.The event begins at 2:30 pm and will be broadcast live here.As of Thursday, the province had 691 active COVID-19 cases.Shephard has previously said that people should stop planning for the holidays for now, as the number of new cases remains high and community transmission persists."We don't want to cancel Christmas," Shephard said Thursday. Trend stories The story continues below the ad. “I don't know how to convey to the public that we need your support to follow public health measures. We should know something by Monday. "He reminded people to follow public health measures, such as physical d...

In China, the situation on the troubled real estate market is coming to a head: The country's largest developer, the completely overindebted Evergrande Group, warned again today of a default. Company founder Xu Jianyin was then appointed by the government of Guangdong Province - there, in Shenzhen, the company is based.The government announced that it would send a working group to the group. This should "monitor and promote" risk management.Company sits on mountain of debtAfter years of credit-funded expansion, Evergrande is sitting on a mountain of debts equivalent to around 260 billion euros and has great difficulty servicing its loans. Today the group announced in a mandatory announcement to the Hong Kong stock exchange that in light of its current si...

Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti intervenes in launching booster injections against the Omicron variant. Reference-globalnews.ca

Manitoba Prime Minister Heather Stefanson will make an announcement Friday morning from Selkirk about the province's plan to deal with surgical delays.Stefanson will be joined at 10 am by Health Minister Audrey Gordon, Dr. David Matear from the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority and Dr. Anthony Herd from the Selkirk Regional Health Center.The announcement, which will discuss an investment in clinical and preventive services, will be streamed live on this page. Trend stories 2:20Manitoba couple fly to Mexico to avoid delays in provincial surgeries Manitoba couple fly to Mexico to avoid delays in provincial surgeries ...

The experiences of ordinary people in the educational system can constitute forms of valuable social research. In the course of our research on inclusion in school, we are concerned (ba) to know whether in the educational system of our country there is room for all boys and girls. From everything we heard, we were especially captivated by what the students told us. Although it is hardly heard for the transformation of policies and practices, the voice of the students seems fundamental to make radical inclusive proposals.To enable a commitment to respect human diversity through dialogue, we wanted to have students who are very different from each other and to be able to have a good representation of the diversity of our society. We paid special attention to the most vulnerable...

The first confirmed case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in Iceland is a fully vaccinated man who was also given a booster dose. According to a report by Icelandic broadcaster RUV today, it is completely unclear how the 70-year-old from the western Icelandic city of Akranes contracted the mutated virus variant.Two more cases confirmedSince the man had sought medical treatment a few days ago, two more Omicron cases have been confirmed on the North Atlantic Island, and four more suspected cases are still being sequenced. All seven cases are said to be related to one another. According to the epidemologist Thorolfur Gudnason, the outbreak of the Omicron variant is likely to be limited to Akranes for the time being.90 percent of Icelanders over the...

The current imperative of fluidity is a reduction of the world to become: movement of capital, flow of desire or gender, disruptive innovation, nervous activism. This fluidity is also manifested in the surveillance capitalism that forces personal information to flow through all things. This fluidity is incompatible with two forms of border containment: the conscience of the individual and the law of States. To avoid the first, the consciousness of the individual, the individual-machine relationship takes the form of a prereflective psychological stimulus. To avoid the second, state law, surveillance capitalism relies on the technocratic superstition that innovation cannot wait for legal regulation. Consequently, the interests of the surveillance capitalists run almost withou...

Breadcrumb Trail Links Local news The petition notes that Paris, London, Berlin, Barcelona, ​​San Francisco, Calgary and Toronto already allow leashed dogs on their transit systems. Author of the article: Montreal Gazette Daniel Simard walks his dog Sulky down a snowy path in Westmount's Summit Woods in the spring of 2021. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette Article content An online petition launched by the Montreal SPCA requesting that the city allow leashed dogs on Montreal's public transportation system had garnered more than 4,300 signatures as of Friday morning. Article content The petition calls on Mayor Valérie Plante and the newly appointed president of the Société de transport de Montréal, Eric Alan Caldwell, to allow dogs on Montreal's public transport system...

Philippe J. Fournier: A new Abacus poll shows that the Conservative leader's approval numbers have plummeted since the election, pointing to future challenges for the party. The first session of the 44th Parliament (finally) began last week, almost two months after the general elections in September. While voting intentions have remained (unsurprisingly) generally stable during that time, this long lull in parliamentary hostilities does not appear to have benefited Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, whose party has been embroiled in disputes. internal since their electoral defeat. Namely, a new survey published by Abacus facts It shows that the conservative leader's impressions have returned to their pre-election levels. To the question: "Do you have a pos...

From the perspective of high-ranking European diplomats, Iran has taken a destructive stance in the newly started nuclear negotiations. "Iran is breaking with almost all difficult compromises that had been agreed in several months of tough negotiations," said the German, French and British negotiators today.The time window for a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dispute is therefore getting smaller and smaller, they warned. After five days of talks in Vienna, the delegations returned to their capitals to meet again next week.The aim of the negotiations is to restrict the Iranian nuclear program again and to lift US sanctions against the Islamic Republic. The aim is to save the 2015 nuclear deal that is supposed to prevent the development of nuclear weap...

In Latvia, a passenger plane with 44 people on board slipped over a taxiway due to heavy snowfall and poor visibility. In the incident today at the airport in the capital Riga, no one was injured, said the rescue workers and the airline.The machine was towed for inspection and an investigation was initiated. The airport runway has been temporarily closed.Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics was among the passengers on board the aircraft. “An unforgettable week: on the return to Riga, the machine from Stockholm slipped off the runway,” he wrote on Twitter.Rinkevics thanked the crew, the airport staff and the rescue service for "quick action, calm and professionalism".There was a severe onset of winter in Latvia. According to the weather department, ...