US: Biden leads in Florida polls.
Joe Biden is ahead in polls against Trump
for the state of Florida in the upcoming US
presidential election.
The CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and
released on the 29th of July, showed Biden
in lead at 51% and Trump with 46% in the
state of Florida.
Florida is a significant state for Republican
candidates. The last Republican to win the
US presidency without Florida was Calvin
Coolidge, nearly 100 years ago, in 1924.
An IPSOS poll, released on the 29th of
July and conducted on behalf of Thomson
Reuters, also found that Biden was ahead
in national polls with 47% and Trump at
38%. However, because the US uses an
electoral voting system, the popular vote
nationally is less of an indicator than the
individual state polling.
Florida
Biden Trump
51% 46%
Nationally
Biden Trump
47% 38%
Bus manufacturer in the UK set
to cut jobs.
Bus manufacturer Alexandra Dennis
is set to cut 650 jobs, as the company
has seen no orders since March 2020.
The Alexandra Dennis factory is one
of the manufacturers that models the
Transport for London buses. Workers
who will be affected are those from
sites in Guildford, Scarborough, and
Falkirk.
There are 2,700 employees
worldwide, and the manufacturer
has made 1,250 buses for the UK
market in 2019, but has not received
orders in five months.
The chief executive Colin Robertson
has already urged the government
to act quickly in its pledge to order
4,000 environmentally friendly
buses in order to support the UK’S
manufacturing industry, as well as
reduce bus emissions.
Italy: misogyny and
homo-transphobia finally
become illegal.
After 25 years of debate, and
opposition from the IEC (Italian
Episcopal Conference), violence
and hatred crimes against gender
identity, sexual orientation, and
misogyny will be punished up to
four years in prison.
The law will introduce legal aid
free of charge for victims of
homo-transphobia, and the state
will pay court fees.
The European Agency for
Fundamental Rights states that
Italy is among the countries with
the highest discrimination index.
International Day against
Homophobia and Transphobia is
celebrated on 17 May.
World
Bites
Latin-American indigenous
communities are facing the worst of
COVID-19.
Indigenous communities, who are usually
isolated because of their remote locations,
have an increasing number of coronavirus
cases, making them critical patients.
Lejandrina Pastor, indigenous councillor
for Woman, Family and Generation for
National Indigenous Organization of
Colombia, reported that the elders inside
their communities and those responsible
for traditional medicine are becoming ill.
The United Nations requested
international aid to help indigenous tribes
from Brazil, Colombia, and Peru who live
in the Amazon rainforest. Transportation,
translation, and medicine are the main
issues to overcome in order to aid the area.
Approximately 170,000 indigenous people
are at risk.
Ghana to build a new eastern regional
hospital worth €78 million.
Ghana has introduced a new eastern region
hospital in Koforidua with the help of UK
Export Finances (UKEF), which contributed
€78 million (£71 million).
Standard Chartered Bank UK has announced
that funding has been secured for the new
Ghana hospital and settled on an agreement
with UKEF. The UKEF will be supporting
finance with constructing and equipping the
new eastern regional hospital.
Republic of Ghana President Akufo-
Addo cut the sod on the 22nd of July for
the commencement of phase one for the
construction of the 285-bed health facility,
with the hospital totalling a capacity of 600
beds.
President Akufo- Addo stated that once the
project is completed, the hospital will take
over and help improve care while providing
support to the continuous expansion of key
health facilities.
Syria and Russia to
build a mini Hagia
Sophia.
Syria has announced that
it will build a miniature
replica of Hagia Sophia
in protest after the
Turkish government
decided to convert it
into a mosque. President
Bashar Al-Assad’s
regime will be aided in
its construction by his
historic ally, Russia. The
mini Hagia Sophia will
be located in the city of
Al-Suqaylabiyah, a Greek
Orthodox majority city in
the province of Hama.
Some countries
condemned the Turkish
move, and even the Pope
in Rome expressed his
disappointment.
The original Hagia
Sophia, based in Istanbul,
has been reverted into
a mosque this June,
after the site became a
museum in 1934.
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