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Brussels will present plans later this year to avoid medicine shortages and improve stocks’ transparency, according to the EU’s health commissioner.The proposals, which are expected in March, will update the bloc’s current general pharmaceuticals legislation, and aim to address the lack of supply that the EU is now experiencing. This includes antibiotics, like amoxicillin, medicines to relieve colds, the flu, and other respiratory infections, and pediatric treatments.Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, told MEPs in Strasbourg that antibiotic shortages are increasingly becoming a problem for member states and that the revised law will provide a remedy…

An arsonist, driving a pickup truck, set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in central Illinois, police said Tuesday, just days after the state enacted new laws protecting abortion rights.The attacker used a “fire accelerant” at about 11:31 p.m. CT on Sunday in the 2700 block of North Knoxville Avenue, Planned Parenthood and Peoria police said. The Peoria Fire Department extinguished flames that were “contained to one room” as one “firefighter sustained non-life-threatening injuries,” police said in a statement.A Planned Parenthood clinic in Peoria, Ill., that was the target of an arson attack.WEEKNo one was inside the building during the…

Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg is being accused of staging her detention at a German coal mine protest after video surfaced showing the 20-year-old seemingly laughing with officers. During the purported photo-up, video shows Thunberg smiling and laughing with who appears to be another protester. One officer, clad in riot gear and a helmet, has Thunberg by the arm, while another stands next to her with his hands clasped in front of him. A third officer laughs along with them. Thunberg falls quiet and serious as a photographer snaps pictures of her and the officers standing still. In the background, a…

When Jane Fraser became CEO of Citigroup nearly two years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, she established the kind of flexible hybrid work culture that’s mostly unheard of among elite Wall Street bankers. Although Fraser sees no need to return to the old ways, Citi’s experiment has shown not all workers can hack it working remotely. The less productive ones, she said, are being called back into the office for coaching. “We do measure productivity very carefully,” she said Tuesday during a panel hosted by Bloomberg News during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Apprenticeship is really…

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed during a broad-daylight fight on a Brooklyn street, cops said Wednesday. The teen was knifed in the torso around 3 p.m. Tuesday outside a laundromat at Sixth Avenue and 49th Street in Sunset Park, police said.  The teen was knifed in the torso during a fight outside a laundromat on Sixth Avenue near 49th Street in Sunset Park, cops said. Citizen He was taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.  Police believe the teen knew his attackers, who fled after the stabbing.  The incident came hours after a 17-year-old boy was…

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference following the announcement that the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a percentage point, at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, U.S., December 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has tested positive for Covid-19, the central bank announced Wednesday morning.Powell, 69, is “experiencing mild symptoms,” according to the announcement.”Chair Powell is up to date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, he is working remotely while isolating at home,” a news release said.No further details were provided.The policymaking Federal Open…

Billy Napier and the Florida Gators appear to have lost a top recruit due to a name, image, and likeness deal falling through. Quarterback recruit Jaden Rashada requested a release from his National Letter of Intent (LOI) on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.  Rashada, a four-star recruit from Pittsburg, California, failed to enroll at Florida last week, raising red flags that his future in Gainesville was in doubt.FLORIDA COULD LOSE TOP RECRUIT AFTER MASSIVE NIL DEAL CREATES CONTROVERSY Rashada’s commitment to the Gators was contingent on a four-year, $13 million NIL deal he signed with the Gator Collective, according to The Associated…

Marc Angel, a first-term socialist MEP from Luxembourg, has been elected as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, filling the vacant spot left by Eva Kaili.The Greek legislator was stripped of her position last month after she was detained by Belgian authorities and charged with accepting “large sums of money” and “substantial gifts” from a Gulf Persian country, widely identified as Qatar.Kaili’s shocking arrest triggered a summary process to remove her from her position as Vice-President, to which she ascended in January 2022. Kaili has been in prison since mid-December and remains a titular MEP.Her lawyer has…

From bougie seaside towns and desirable villages to hip city pockets bursting with culture, great nightlife and even better food – is your home in any of these achingly-cool postcodes?Bored of the humdrum and looking to move somewhere a bit more lively this year? Some of the UK’s coolest neighbourhoods have been revealed in a list that contains more artisan coffee shops and urban art than you can shake a vinyl disc at. The Sunday Times has named what it considers some of the country’s most desirable post codes, and living in any of them could push your house value…

A woman and two of her children were found dead in a field over the weekend after wandering the streets of Pontiac, Michigan, for nearly three days amid freezing temperatures, authorities said.Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the deaths could have been prevented.Pontiac Mayor Tim Greimel said at a news conference Monday, “This is a horrible, heart-wrenching tragedy.”Monica Cannady and two of her three children Kyle, 9, and Malik, 3, were found dead, according to a GoFundMe set up by family member Rhodesia Cannaday.gofundmeThe mother, Monica Latrice Cannady, 35, and her sons, Malik Milton, 3, and Kyle Milton, 9, were…