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Epping asylum seeker hotel order could spark more protests, court told
An injunction temporarily blocking asylum seekers from being housed at an Essex hotel could spark further protests, the Court of Appeal has been told. Lawyers for the Home Office and The Bell Hotel in Epping have been challenging a High Court ruling stopping migrants from living at the venue. Mr Justice Eyre ordered all 138…
Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent
Science Agency Staffers Speak Out about Trump Administration’s Actions Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in which the agencies are headed By Meghan Bartels edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier University of Minnesota researchers, scientists…
Trump tariffs spark US government debt sell-off
Confidence in the US economy is plummeting as investors dumped government debt amid growing concerns over the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Governments sell bonds – essentially an IOU – to raise money from financial markets for public spending and in return they pay interest. The US does not normally see high interest rates on…
New Syrian government’s school curriculum changes spark concern
There is concern growing in Syria that the new Islamist-led authorities have already decided on changes to the school curriculum, without the input of the rest of society. The Facebook page of the transitional government’s education ministry has posted the new curriculum for all age groups, which will take on a more Islamic slant, as…