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Overnight News Digest: Free Covid test sign up available now for delivery beginning 10/2 [1]
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Date: 2023-09-25
BBC
People will be able to request four free rapid antigen tests.
The tests will be able to detect a new strain of the virus, which has now been reported in several US states.
Covid hospitalisations have been increasing in the last few weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US has restarted its free at-home Covid-19 testing service, as the government attempts to limit the spread of the virus over the winter months.
C/NET
The result is a full moon that can appear as much as 15% larger in the sky than a typical full moon, reflecting around an additional third as much light from the sun into the night sky.
In 2023, the harvest moon may be up to 30% brighter because this particular full moon is also a supermoon , or as astronomers put it more scientifically (and arguably more poetically), at perigee syzygy . No matter what you call it, it refers to when the moon is full and also at its closest point to Earth in its oval-shaped orbit.
Traditionally, the full moon that takes place nearest to the northern autumn equinox has been known as the " harvest" moon in Europe and North America. For centuries the bright moon's light was welcomed as it helped farmers continue to harvest their bounty beyond sunset.
BBC
People will be able to request four free rapid antigen tests.
The tests will be able to detect a new strain of the virus, which has now been reported in several US states.
Covid hospitalisations have been increasing in the last few weeks, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The US has restarted its free at-home Covid-19 testing service, as the government attempts to limit the spread of the virus over the winter months.
BBC
"Our hearts break for the families of these members, and all who loved them."
"With these deaths, we have reached a sombre, remarkable milestone," New York City Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said in a statement.
The Fire Department of New York has said the number of its members who have died from 9/11-related illnesses is now equal to the number lost on the day of the attacks, 343.
Deutsche Welle
At the same time, workers at the pipeline operator Nord Stream registered a sharp drop in pressure in the 1200-kilometer (745-mile) gas pipes that connects Russia and Germany. As the sun rose over the Baltic Sea, giant bubbles of methane gas could be seen from the air near the Danish island of Bornholm. They were coming to the surface from about 80 meters (260 feet) underwater. Further tremors followed. Soon it became clear: Several sections of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines had been blown up.
It was 2 a.m. on September 26, 2022, when seismic monitoring stations in Denmark, Sweden and Germany registered a weak earth tremor.
Deutsche Welle
The German and US defense ministers have said they see no immediate need to leave Niger, following France's decision to withdraw troops. Niamey's junta has been more focused on the former colonial power's presence. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius both said on Monday that France's plan to withdraw its troops from Niger did not have immediate implications for other foreign forces in Niamey. "We have an eye on the security situation, but there is no current need to take action," Germany's Pistorius said during a visit to Riga in Latvia. "It's not the time for overly hasty reactions," he said. Pistorius had previously said that a withdrawal of French troops from Niger — announced on Sunday by President Emmanuel Macron — would pose a serious question as to whether Germany should follow.
Al Jazeera
Athens, Greece – Stefanos Kasselakis, a 35-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader, was elected leader of Syriza on Sunday, sending shockwaves throughout the Greek left with his meteoric rise. Within a month, he emerged from political obscurity to head Greece’s main opposition group. Kasselakis threw his hat into the ring at the end of August, posting a four-minute video to this social media channels promising to “build the Greek dream”. He is seen by some as a breath of fresh air for a party which has struggled to meaningfully challenge Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his ruling right-wing New Democracy party in recent elections.
Al Jazeera
Montreal, Canada – When Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that his government was investigating possible ties between India and the June killing of a Canadian Sikh leader, Moninder Singh says one of his initial feelings was “validation”. “For 40 years, our community has been working to bring foreign interference from India to light,” said Singh, spokesman for the British Columbia Gurdwaras Council, a coalition of Sikh temples, including the one where Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed. His sense of validation was “not only at the fact that foreign interference by India was being recognised”, Singh told Al Jazeera, but also that Nijjar’s death “wasn’t some localised matter; that there was a foreign hand in it”. “But on the other side of it, there was also – amongst myself and the whole community – a sense of frustration, as well, as it [took] an assassination of a Sikh leader in a gurdwara for this acknowledgement to happen.” Nijjar was fatally shot outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a city southeast of Vancouver, on June 18. His death immediately fuelled concerns and outrage within the local community, but it was Trudeau’s allegations, made in the House of Commons, that set off a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India.
The Guardian, US
The tentative deal reached between Hollywood and studio executives has been received well by those on strike and others within the industry. Members from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), who took on the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) with demands that included better pay and residuals, and safeguards on the use of artificial intelligence, shared their collective relief. In a statement issued on Sunday, the WGA said: “We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language. “What we have won in this contract – most particularly, everything we have gained since 2 May – is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days. It is the leverage generated by your strike, in concert with the extraordinary support of our union siblings, that finally brought the companies back to the table to make a deal.” The organization called the deal “exceptional”.
The Guardian
An antiviral drug used to treat patients with Covid-19 may be causing mutations in the virus and fuelling the evolution of new variants, scientists have said. Molnupiravir, which is also sold under the brand name Lagevrio, is designed to mutate coronavirus to destruction, but researchers found evidence that the virus can sometimes survive the treatment, leading to mutated versions that occasionally spread to other people. There is no evidence molnupiravir has produced more dangerous variants of Covid, but scientists said the mutations increased the genetic diversity of the virus in the wild and provided more options for future evolution.
The Guardian, UK
Ireland’s sports ministry has said that a young gymnast at the centre of a racism row was “badly let down”, as it emerged that the head of the country’s sporting authority told the family last year that the girl’s treatment wasn’t racist. Una May, the CEO of Sports Ireland, said the judge who ignored the only black gymnast in the competition lineup had got the medals “tangled up”, in comments witnessed by at least two people outside the family. Video of the event in March 2022 shows a judge handing out medals for participation to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl. A photographer, coach and other officials fail to intervene. A mediation settlement reached with the family involved the judge taking anti-racism training
The Guardian, Australia
Female doctors who have experienced sexual assault have spoken of work conditions they felt made them more vulnerable to harm from senior colleagues, an Australian researcher says. “[They described] the enforced closeness that can occur in long sessions in operating theatres,” said Dr Louise Stone, an associate professor at the Australian National University. “[The] emotionally intense experiences in traumatic situations, and relocation to rural hospital environments where they had little support and lived in hospital accommodation.” Stone, who has researched sexual harassment in medicine, said women had also spoken about “the boys’ club culture” that reduced their confidence and sense of self”.
NPR
Last September, Kevin Quinn was trekking through a remote, mountainous region in central Washington state when he started feeling sick. "At first, I thought it was just a stomachache," he says, "But when we got to the campsite I started throwing up, and it started coming out the other end as well." He was hiking north on the Pacific Crest Trail — a five-month, 2600-mile trek from the Mexican border up to Canada that's gotten popular in the last 10 years thanks to the memoir Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, which became a movie in 2014. Quinn was on the trail with his daughter, who had left her job so they could hike together. After months of hiking, he found himself wiped out at a campsite in the middle of nowhere.
New York Times
Giant new oil and gas wells that require astonishing volumes of water to fracture bedrock are threatening America’s fragile aquifers. Increasingly complex oil wells are sweeping across Texas, birthplace of the fracking revolution, and the nation. A Times analysis found that these new wells can consume millions of gallons of water, often taken from dwindling aquifers. Nationwide, fracking has used up nearly 1.5 trillion gallons of water since 2011. That’s how much tap water the entire state of Texas uses in a year.To satisfy that thirst, energy giants are drilling not just for oil, but for the water they need.
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