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The Northern Territory Government is being urged to immediately reinstate alcohol bans in Alice Springs town camps after a report recommended they be restored without delay.But the NT and Federal governments have pushed back a decision on the issue until next week.Independent Alice Springs-based MLA Robyn Lambley said the Government needed to apologise for the disastrous decision to allow the “rivers of grog” to flow freely in Alice Springs and overturn the decision today.Love news? Stream 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2023“They’re deeply embarrassed now by what’s happening…

The Bureau of Meteorology have launched a new category for heatwaves and Sky News host Chris Kenny says certain weather reports hinge on the “global warming alarmist narrative”.“The bureau picked a slow summer to kick off their heatwave warning, because so far it’s been such a mild summer for most of the country,” he said.This comes after the ABC reported snow in some regions of Victoria.“Snow, and an arctic blast, in February, you’d wanna warn the graziers, they might want to get some animals to shelter.” Source: Sky News

Signage of Adani Group at company’s gas station in Ahmedabad, India, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIndia’s Adani conglomerate deepened market losses to exceed $100 billion on Thursday, which have snowballed since a short-seller’s scathing report triggered market turmoil and led the company to walk back its public share sale.Losses across Gautam Adani’s main businesses hit $107 billion by 10 a.m. London time on Thursday since the Jan. 24 publication of an extensive critical report from New York’s Hindenburg Research, which has disclosed a short position in Adani Group companies.Market value loss for Adani companiesCompany name…

New Jersey Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour has been found shot and killed outside her home Wednesday night, according to reports. The body of Dwumfour, 30, was discovered in her vehicle after police received a call of shots fired near the Camelot at La Mer apartment complex in Sayreville, NJ, the New Jersey Globe reported. Dwumfour, a Republican who has served as councilwoman for the Borough of Sayreville since 2021, was pronounced dead at the scene, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Sayreville police Chief Daniel Plumwacker told the outlet in a statement. Authorities are reportedly investigating Dwumfour’s death as a homicide.…

A Russian man has been sent to prison for four years for crypto mining-related fraud.Per the media outlet 56 Orb, the man is a 47-year-old resident of Orenburg, a southwestern city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan.A court in the city heard that the man duped a local entrepreneur into investing in a crypto mining project. The man told the entrepreneur that he intended to “buy a range of equipment for cryptocurrency mining.”The man offered the entrepreneur the opportunity to work as partners. He said the project could accrue considerable profits by buying and reselling crypto mining hardware to would-be miners.Many…

After more than a decade of staring enviously at the tech-fuelled US stock market, European equities are finally staging a comeback. Goldman Sachs thinks this may just be the start. After all, the scale of the underperformance since 2007 is mind-boggling. Here is a GS chart showing the total returns of Europe’s Stoxx 600 relative to the S&P 500. That’s from the latest report by Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman’s chief global equity strategist, where he argues that “Europe’s outperformance has further to go” (as long as the US stock market doesn’t really crap out, in which case everyone is going to…

UK broker Peel Hunt has agreed a deal with rivals Rothschild, Numis, Hargreaves Lansdown and Jefferies to create a company that will offer retail investors access to initial public offerings and other listed company fundraisings.Peel Hunt will relaunch an existing platform, Rex, that allows retail investors to buy into company capital raisings, which are often dominated by or offered exclusively to large institutions.The separate business, which will be known as RetailBook, will own and operate a deals platform for the new partners, which will have the right to become shareholders alongside Peel Hunt. The Financial Times revealed in November that…

A war of words has erupted between GPs and pharmacists over a potential change to prescription powers as part of a proposed Medicare overhaul.Health Minister Mark Butler said Medicare was in the “worst shape it’s been in its 40-year history” but particularly general practice which is in a “truly parlous state”.  Liberating the increasingly congested healthcare system is a key goal for Mr Butler this year, through enhancing the ability of nurses, paramedics and pharmacists to deliver outcomes for patients.Love news? Stream 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2023This…

The old gasworks in Hollicombe is a stone’s throw away from some of Devon’s best beaches but it has been left to decay despite the area being cleared of toxic chemicalsBritain’s “Chernobyl-on-Sea” is still abandoned after more than a decade, with skeleton buildings decaying at the old gasworks. Ugly hoardings surround the derelict building site which is just a stone’s throw away from some of the best beaches in the UK. The area was once likened to the nuclear ghost city of Ukraine which was exposed to radiation after a reactor was destroyed in a devastating Soviet nuclear disaster in…