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IN THE NEWS Homes, structures ‘in the thousands’ are burned in Palisades, Eaton, officials say; more fire weather ahead (Los Angeles Times) — Officials have said the death toll from the California fires is likely to rise with more then 2,000 structures destroyed and at least 130,000 residents under evacuation orders. The fires are set […]
The nurse said, ‘Try getting some sleep.’‘I don’t need any sleep.’‘You don’t, but it’s easier to run a hospital with all the patients sleeping.’ The Final Programme, 1968 “Easiest way to run the world, for that matter,” Jerry Cornelius replies in the film version of The Final Programme, made several years later when reality had […]
SOUTH KOREA MARTIAL LAW A few hours ago South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law, only for around 190 politicians to then assemble in the country’s Parliament at 1am and unanimously block the law. The fast-moving story has already taken plenty of twists and turns, but at the time of writing the […]